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Speaker 1 (00:23):
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Speaker 3 (01:08):
Reception. Yes, she is Miss Sarting, very arm starting, I'll
have it. Come in, Miss Brent, Yes, let's start. We'll
see you now a large corner office at the end
of the hall. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Jean Thornton was a tall, square shouldered blonde with high
cheekbones and a good figure, and nervous.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
As a cat. More than that, I hadn't been in
her office five minutes before I knew that she was
afraid of something, of course.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
The responsibilities of her job something I couldn't understand it.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
She was our director of William J. Fowling Company, one
of the best advertising agencies in town.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
She had everything I wanted professionally a couple of other ways,
and yet she was.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Afraid I couldn't understand it. Then Yes, yes, he's a
quite good, quite good Miss Brent, Helen Brandy is. Miss
Brent's quite good. But let's a good thanks, Oh, how cute,
how silly thing? And Safaro send it to Miss Mexico.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Well else in the world, woud anybody have a patient
to dam put together a musical cigarette case. But as
I was saying what I was saying, oh oh yes,
oh yes, these are really very.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Good lay out, Miss Brandt. I like them, but I
don't quite see how we can use you just now.
You said that before, Miss Thornton. Yes, so I did.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Well, look, Miss Salton, I don't need the job. I'm
not one of those desperate people that's coming to cry
on your shoulder. I have a job at Maxfield and Ellis,
but they're stupid deal. I'm not getting any place in
a frame like this where people have imagination.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
You have a chance, that's all. I want a chant,
so do a lot of other people in miss brand. Well,
I'm not a lot of other people. I think I've
got ability, and you know it, commercial ability. I think
I could be professional. Yes, yes, well there's an opening.
You'll get in touch with it. You'll get in touch.
I know what that means. I've been given the brush
off by it. That will be all, miss brain. I'm
sick of being brushed off. I've got ability as much
(02:58):
as you have, and maybe more on our shoulders. And Brent,
when you leave my office, or shall I have you
thrown out? All right? Thought good day?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Of course that would be the last time I'd ever
lay eyes on Jane Tony, That's what I thought. I
went back to my office and worked most of the night,
catching up on my own stuff, doing a little lexture
that I was peddling around town.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I was standing on the sidewalk kidding with a.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Night elevator man, and while I waited for care and
looking up at the tower against the early morning.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Sky, That dark tower, thirty six floors above the street
and three blocks up the avenue where the William J.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Fowl Agency had their offices and where I'd have given
my right arm to be working.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
You will miss your beauty, sleep working, miss late, miss brand.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Not Charlie who says I need beauty, Oh you don't.
I like to work at night. It's quiet, and think
of all the sunrises I see.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Look at that's Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's gonna be a nice day.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I get.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Look, I thought the body.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Falling the screen tangles at the same moment. We still hoes,
not me. Oh God, I wish I hadn't seen that
cowxpt with someone from the filey.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Whoever watched poor devil a woman don't wakeness back, I
wouldn't go up there, refer.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
And by the time I got there at the prow card,
if you were out of nowhere the way they were
in this town and usual a crowd of early.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Birds the night, all standing around blocking. They were trying
to cover.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It up with a blank all right, stand bag stand bag?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You couldn't tell anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I wanted to look for I couldn't. A cop was
picking up stuff that the.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Road out of a handbag in the street, going through it,
methodically opening things up.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And then I heard it and I didn't have to look.
I knew.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Get along.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I don't know why a kid the press would you
say there, I might as well tell us because we'll
just sit here anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So here, mister Fallon from the news, I'd like to know.
I can't tell you anything now.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I'm Helen brad that's a whit.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
People were like, a please get out of here.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
I told you a reporter.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I'm Helen Brandt. I'm our director with a small advertising agency.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But I've got tackles here. Mister Farrells. Please just look
at me. You're going to have to have them. You
are director.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
What did you say?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You're shot? But you can't hurt her. And I've been
trying to see you for months and now you're on
a spot.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
And if you just make those things out of my
pace and get.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Out of again, all I asked is that you.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And this one for poker's shoes.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I followed Miss Sawton's general ideas, but I've added, well, yes,
m there's good, mister Fowl.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
And if you say they aren't all right, all.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Right, they're good. They're very good. But if you think
i'd hire a.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Woman who hasn't any more decency than the barge in
here at a time like the second.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Wish what decency got to do with it? Do you
need an art director or a Sunday school teacher?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Now, if you don't mind why people wants to the
court was doing in your office at five o'clock is more?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You must have been working all night on the new
parkerly up.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
They have to be out by.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
They have to be out by three this afternoon. All right,
window for fresh air tied down?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Deisi? Look, miss Simr Helen Brandt, Miss Brandt, Miss Brant,
I think you're one of the most despicable women I've
ever had the misfortune to meet.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
But I've got a very big job to get out
this afternoon. My assistant art directors home. Second, by the
time I interviewed. You can arrange the details with my.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Secretary in there, and frankly, the less I have to
do with you myself by better, I'll like it.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I think you'll change your mind about that, mister.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
We don't think draft off when you don't want to tell?
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Are you mister Farrell's secretary?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Oh well, I'm Helen Brandt, Marie Harris. How do you do?
How do you do? I'm taking Miss Thornton's.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Place, taking Miss Thornton's place. I see, yes, temporarily. Well,
you're not one to let the grass grow under your feet,
are you, My dear mister Fowl said, I could arrange
the details with you to be sure.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I expect you'd better make out one of our regular
employment forms. Well, thank you temporarily, you said, yes. Still
doesn't it feel a bit odd to be filling a
dead woman's shoes that are hardly cold?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So to speak?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I don't see anything so odd about it, Miss Harrins.
Somebody would have to No, of course you wouldn't my
previous experience.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Does it mean just in the advertising business, any experience
that might be applicable?
Speaker 8 (07:51):
It has occurred to you. I suppose, Miss Brandt, that
when someone like miss Thornton.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Is cut off in mid career so to speak, there's
usually a reason for it. They say it was a
nuts an accident.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Do they?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Now? This will be all right?
Speaker 9 (08:03):
Missiles?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yes, yes, I will do. Of course, there's always the
possibility of suicide. I suppose you've got to be I
suppose it might have been. Will you show me my
office pee? Certainly this way you might as well have
the dead woman's That is Miss Thornton's officer. And of
course there is another possibility, isn't there What other possibility?
(08:27):
The possibility of murder? Murder?
Speaker 8 (08:30):
Why, yes, here's your office, Miss bred If you need anything,
just call me. I want to make you as comfortable
as possible under the circumstance.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
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And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood sound stage.
And Baxter as Helen Brandt, with Kathy Lewis as Marie
and Wally Mayer as Bill Farrell in Always Rom at
the Top.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
A pale well calculated to keep you in.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Suspend I'd met Marie Harris's type before, jealous of her authority,
is the boss's secretary, resentful of every newcomer, and determined
to make them uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
God was on the natural fort to resent.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Someone like myself, a total stranger who walked into the
job of our director for one of the best advertising
outfits in town, the William J.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Fowrell Agency. And even though mister Farrell.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Had said temporary, I knew that I had the job.
I knew it before the first campaign was over.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I was in.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
And then one night, the first of those funny little
things began to happen.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I was just taking off my hat and coat when
I saw it. There on my desk a picture, a
big flame picture of a dead girl. Jeane Thornton had.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Written across the face of it. It said, Bill Darling
to the swellest guy and the swellest boss.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
And a girl ever had admiring your predecessor, Miss Frant.
Where did that come from? I'm sure I haven't fantasied idea.
It wasn't there when I left last night.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
Somebody put it there, possibly some well wisher, Miss Frant,
some sincere well wisher, as a sort of warning.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
A warning of what what are you driving at?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Miss Darton and mister Ferrell were quite close at one time?
And what that got to do with me? You know
what happened, Miss Brandt to Miss Thornton.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Look, Marie, are you hinting that female art directors in
this office have a habit.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Of falling for the boss and then falling out the window.
I'm not hinting anything, Miss Brandt. You asked me for
an explanation of how the picture got there. I've given
you one. Doubtless it is far fetched. Certainly it must
seem so to you. It's crazy, of course, will that
be a Miss Brandt?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Miss Marie, let you and I cut out the formality
and let down out hear.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Is there anything around here that I well ought to know?
I'm sure I don't know what you mean, Miss Brandt?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
All right?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
The girl who used to have my job is dead.
You've been hitting round enough about it.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Is there anything that you know that I don't now?
Is that plain enough? Quite?
Speaker 8 (12:44):
I can only say that I have not hinted at anything.
I have perhaps engaged in certain idle speculations on matters
which were.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Better left as they are. That's all, Oh, k Marie.
But the way things look now, I'm liable to be
around here for quite a while. Oh, I should think
it likely, And you and I ought to learn to
get along. You'll have no trouble getting along with me,
Miss Frant. But you mean I may with him?
Speaker 8 (13:08):
I can only say, Miss Brant, as your sincere friend
and well wisher, yes, that you're working for a man
who's subject too singularly strong enthusiasms. Sometimes these enthusiasms are
apt to be carried to extremes. It is essential to
appreciate this in dealing with mister Ferrell.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I don't suppose this picture gag would be one of
mister Fowls's little enthusiasms.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Under the circumstances, I should think it most unlikely. It
wouldn't be one of yours, my little well wisher. No,
miss France, it would not.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
You couldn't help the believer. She was so prim and proper.
But I was determined to have a show down anyway
on the whole thing, my job and everything. I talked
him to Bill Fowl's.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Office with a picture in my hand and without benefit
of knocking.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Oh hello, Helen, something.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
That appears to be from your desk seems to aline
m here.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Where did you get that?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I just told you on my desk.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Your ever tactful Marie has suggested that some well wisher
left it as a.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Warning for Jeanie.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
She gave me that when that.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Explanation still seems to leave several questions on answering to Farrel.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Look, Kellen, you'll hear a lot of funny things in
this office, like any other office.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
To take my word for it, they don't mean a thing.
Just do your job the way you've been doing it,
and you'll you'll be all right.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
How right? Is there.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You like the job, don't you?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I like the work. I haven't got the job.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Do you want it?
Speaker 10 (14:36):
What do you think?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You've certainly ended Helen.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Will you stop beating around the bush? Am I the
new art director of the William J. Farrell Agency?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Or not?
Speaker 11 (14:46):
All right?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You are? You are hereby officially the new art director
of the William J.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Farrell Agency.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
From this stay forward until.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Until fourth.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
As as long as you went the job.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Heaven until death do us parts, was what he'd started
to say.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I forgot it, though I forgot it almost the moment
he said it. For the next twenty four hours, I
was walking on it. It wasn't just a job, it
was something even better. I knew Bill Fower was falling
in love with me. I knew that was just a
matter of time too. M m hm h morning, Marie.
(15:34):
Mister Fowl is not yet, Miss Brand. I wish you
wouldn't be so formal with me, Marie.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Everybody calls everybody else by their first names around here,
except you.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I am used to more conventional methods in most things.
Miss Brand's okay, okay, I'll let me know when he
comes in. Now, w you I want to see him.
Speaker 10 (15:49):
Yes, Miss Brandon, Hello, Bill Darling.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
Yah, I got it just this morning down and so
I wanted to tell you how sweet was Thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
This way n.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
Me.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Yes, Miss Brandy, I just heard her. Boy Whose boys?
Speaker 10 (16:21):
Miss Brain?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Who's Jean? Miss Thornton?
Speaker 8 (16:25):
Why don't you lie down on the couch by a moment,
Miss Brane. You've been working too hard lately, and I'll
get you some waters.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
No, I'll tell you I heard it why in this room?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
In this room, Yes, I know it was because there
was that music box too, that cigarette.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Case of hers.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Oh, yes, yes, I remember it, so.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Do I cause the last time I heard it was
down there when they were picking up with things.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
There's no one here now, missus Brandt, no one but
you and mean I know, but I heard it.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Was she was it speaking to you?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
And this voice?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
No to build mister Salm, something personal? Oh this idea?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Say?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Have you ever looked in this closet by the door on,
Miss brand but not especially No.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
I think there's probably a perfectly logical explanation of what
you heard, Miss brand Yes, yes you see. Oh a dictograph.
It used to be Miss Thornton's. They use dictographs for everything.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
In this office. They say it saved them forty thousand
dollars a year in stenographic health. I see something must
have turned it on. Yes, there you.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
See this box of pencils, but it's fallen off the shelf.
It must have been that what turned it off, Marie.
I'm sure I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
It's quite simple, isn't it. Here's the switch. Stop it,
stop it, yes, miss Brand, and I'll get it out
of you. Certainly, miss Brand. Is there any particular I
don't care what you do with it. Do anything you like,
Throw it out the wind. What was that, Miss Brand?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Just get it out of here and leave me alone.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
It's silly. I know that it could have happened that way.
It must turn That's as Marie said.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
And all the time in the back of my mind
was lurking horror, a nameless thing that I felt hanging
over that arm and over me, something about.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
A girl who was dead.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
A girl would plunged to her death from that same
dark tower that was now my dark tower, flung screaming
to her death.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Only a few short weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
The next night, I had work late again to make
up I'd been out to supper alone.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I was conscious of the light still burning in Bill's
office when I got back.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I wasn't particularly anxious to see him just then, truthful,
I was avoiding him.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I suppose I'd been in my office about an hour
and a half on the form rang. I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Strange because I was certain that I'd ask to have
my nightline just connected out of habit. I'd picked it
up to answer, Hell, Bill, Bill, is it you?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Bill?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Helena? Tell me what's happened?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I heard her again? Heard who dear Jean Jean daught
with Jeane.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Yes, I know it was, I swear, But Darling, it
couldn't have been.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I think I'm going there, Helen.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Darling listened to me.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Picture all right, But.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Helen, Helen, look at me. Yes, Bill, I love you, Helen.
You know that, don't you?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yes? Oh, yes, Darling, I do. I'm afraid. There's nothing
to be afraid of, Darling. No, not that I'm afraid,
because now I know this. You're afraid.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I am. Yes, you are, aren't you, Helen?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I will please. You've got to tell.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Me now, Hello, Darling. I'm in a jam, A bad jam,
an awful bad jam. Yes, but it's nothing that you
have to worry about. It's nothing that isn't going to
straighten itself out. It's nothing that I'm going to let affect.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Us, ever, Bill, if it affects you, it does affect us. Darling, Darling,
you've got to trust me just a little longer, Bill,
I do, I will. But it's about Jean.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yes, yes, it's about Jean.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Then it was. She didn't just fall.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
It was a terrible thing, how and.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Terrible about as terrible as it could be. But Helen,
just remember this, darling. There's nothing to be afraid of it. It'll
all be over soon, very soon.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Is that all all you can tell me?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
It's all I can tell you now, Oh, darling, I
know what this is like for you.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But please please go home.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Now and forget all about it.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
We'll try try anyway.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
I've got some things to finish up here, and then
I'll call for you and we'll start making our friends.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Oh you will marry me, won't you?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Heaven?
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Bill? Yes, then then everything's all right.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Go on not go on a good night for now.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
My DearS.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Good night. I went out. I didn't go home. I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
I walked walked from ray, trying to think. But nothing
made any sense except that I was in love and
an anagony of fear for what might happen to spoil it.
And sudden I realized that I had to know everything
now tonight, whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
So I went back to the office. Their light was
still on, and I was just at the door when
I stopped.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Suppose somebody saw you and recognized message. Did that? I
gave no message to no one. Why do you like
me like that?
Speaker 7 (21:22):
I'm not going to.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I threw open the door and she was standing there. Jean,
you thought me a woman who was dead? And I
came to I was lying on the couch and Bill's office.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
That first, it seems perfectly natural, lying there and Bill
sitting beside me, holding my hands. Her there, Jean standing
over by the desk talking to him.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Well, what are you going to do about her? Do?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
What do you mean, Doude, We're going to.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Have to do something. She knows that she or she
will when she snapped out of I'm not going to
do anything.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You're in love with it if I.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Am, because it makes a difference, My sweet to me, Oh, darling,
it's all right, is she is she really?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yes? Yes, it's Gane. But I saw her morning. I
saw how long you were supposed to think and who
just a girl. You might as well tell her at
least then she'll be in at as deep as the
rest of us.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Jean, Please, your.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
Boyfriend there had been dipping into the till about a
quarter of a million dollars worth of.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
The client's money.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
My insurance and what the company had me insured for
was that's about enough to cover it.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Like a fool, I agreed to it. I thought he
was in love with me then.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
But there was a girl, a girl who worked in
the office, no friends, no family. I fired her the
day before, then got her to come up here that night.
Another chance, marveling, I said, was my clothes cigarette case?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I dug up another one. I knew people would remember that.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I told you what was bad, Oh darling, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I don't care what it was long.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
I think you'd better let me take charge of things now,
mister ferl Marie, please don't move.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I'm quite prepared to shoot if I have to.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Marie, this is insane?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Is it the shakedown?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Marie?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Quite a lot, I'm afraid.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Mister Ferroll.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
And how do you expect to get it. That's your
word against ours, three of us. You forget, Miss Thornton,
that you are legally dead.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
As for the rest, do you remember, miss Brandt, that
I said we used dick to grass for practically everything
in this office.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
It was you that I tried my best to warn you.
Miss Brandt, I'm truly sorry for you.
Speaker 10 (23:31):
Listen, you might as well tell her.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I please, then shall be in a steak of the
rest of us.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
See, please, your boyfriend there's been dipping into the till about.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
A quarter of a million dollars worth of the client's
money my insurance.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
There is more, of course, but I am sure that
will suffice.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Now, Miss Thornton, I think you and I had better
have a little talk alone.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
What do you want us to do?
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Marie?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I'll come to you later, mister Ferrell.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
For the moment, I must ask you to step into
the conference room behind you, you too, Miss Branton.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Marie, please, mister Ferrell.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Not now.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
I shall have to lock you in, but it will
not be for long anything, you know, of course, if
there's no.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Other way out except down.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
We stood there, huddle together by the lockdown, but we
could hear nothing.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Time like a window being opened and then bye?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
What have you done to missus?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Thornton has shall we say, taken the easy way out?
Very well? If you prefer I'm sure it can make
a little difference. Now you, miss Bradha take it.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
Are in love with mister Ferroll in spite of my warnings,
and I'm sure I can count on your silence, knowing
the results to mister Farrell if you were to.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Break it any fun, I'm afraid your marital plans will
have to wait. What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
I think it's best this way for my own protection.
Of course, if anything were to happen to mister Farrell
this way, everything.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Would to.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
The firm and the money. You see, miss brand, mister
Ferrell is going to marry me. I looked at still.
I knew he'd do it. She said what else? I
turned and left the room without speaking.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
In my own office I found a little automatic for
lately I had always kept it. When I came back,
Bill were staring out the window and Marie was making
up her face from a little contact.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
They didn't even glance in my direction. I'm waiting for
the police.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I've been looking over the UA layouts, the dos Atself
campaign is particularly good.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
We get it together, Bill Nice.
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Speaker 3 (01:08):
Reception. Yes, she is Miss Sarting, very arm starting, I'll
have it. Come in, Miss Brent, Yes, let's start. We'll
see you now a large corner office at the end
of the hall. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Jean Thornton was a tall, square shouldered blonde with high
cheekbones and a good figure, and nervous.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
As a cat. More than that, I hadn't been in
her office five minutes before I knew that she was
afraid of something, of course.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
The responsibilities of her job something I couldn't understand it.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
She was our director of William J. Fowling Company, one
of the best advertising agencies in town.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
She had everything I wanted professionally a couple of other ways,
and yet she was.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Afraid I couldn't understand it. Then Yes, yes, he's a
quite good, quite good Miss Brent, Helen Brandy is. Miss
Brent's quite good. But let's a good thanks, Oh, how cute,
how silly thing? And Safaro send it to Miss Mexico.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Well else in the world, woud anybody have a patient
to dam put together a musical cigarette case. But as
I was saying what I was saying, oh oh yes,
oh yes, these are really very.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Good lay out, Miss Brandt. I like them, but I
don't quite see how we can use you just now.
You said that before, Miss Thornton. Yes, so I did.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Well, look, Miss Salton, I don't need the job. I'm
not one of those desperate people that's coming to cry
on your shoulder. I have a job at Maxfield and Ellis,
but they're stupid deal. I'm not getting any place in
a frame like this where people have imagination.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
You have a chance, that's all. I want a chant,
so do a lot of other people in miss brand. Well,
I'm not a lot of other people. I think I've
got ability, and you know it, commercial ability. I think
I could be professional. Yes, yes, well there's an opening.
You'll get in touch with it. You'll get in touch.
I know what that means. I've been given the brush
off by it. That will be all, miss brain. I'm
sick of being brushed off. I've got ability as much
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as you have, and maybe more on our shoulders. And Brent,
when you leave my office, or shall I have you
thrown out? All right? Thought good day?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Of course that would be the last time I'd ever
lay eyes on Jane Tony, That's what I thought. I
went back to my office and worked most of the night,
catching up on my own stuff, doing a little lexture
that I was peddling around town.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I was standing on the sidewalk kidding with a.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Night elevator man, and while I waited for care and
looking up at the tower against the early morning.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Sky, That dark tower, thirty six floors above the street
and three blocks up the avenue where the William J.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Fowl Agency had their offices and where I'd have given
my right arm to be working.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
You will miss your beauty, sleep working, miss late, miss brand.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Not Charlie who says I need beauty, Oh you don't.
I like to work at night. It's quiet, and think
of all the sunrises I see.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Look at that's Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's gonna be a nice day.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I get.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Look, I thought the body.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Falling the screen tangles at the same moment. We still hoes,
not me. Oh God, I wish I hadn't seen that
cowxpt with someone from the filey.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Whoever watched poor devil a woman don't wakeness back, I
wouldn't go up there, refer.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
And by the time I got there at the prow card,
if you were out of nowhere the way they were
in this town and usual a crowd of early.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Birds the night, all standing around blocking. They were trying
to cover.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It up with a blank all right, stand bag stand bag?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You couldn't tell anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I wanted to look for I couldn't. A cop was
picking up stuff that the.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Road out of a handbag in the street, going through it,
methodically opening things up.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And then I heard it and I didn't have to look.
I knew.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Get along.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I don't know why a kid the press would you
say there, I might as well tell us because we'll
just sit here anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So here, mister Fallon from the news, I'd like to know.
I can't tell you anything now.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I'm Helen brad that's a whit.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
People were like, a please get out of here.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
I told you a reporter.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I'm Helen Brandt. I'm our director with a small advertising agency.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But I've got tackles here. Mister Farrells. Please just look
at me. You're going to have to have them. You
are director.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
What did you say?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You're shot? But you can't hurt her. And I've been
trying to see you for months and now you're on
a spot.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
And if you just make those things out of my
pace and get.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Out of again, all I asked is that you.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And this one for poker's shoes.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I followed Miss Sawton's general ideas, but I've added, well, yes,
m there's good, mister Fowl.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
And if you say they aren't all right, all.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Right, they're good. They're very good. But if you think
i'd hire a.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Woman who hasn't any more decency than the barge in
here at a time like the second.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Wish what decency got to do with it? Do you
need an art director or a Sunday school teacher?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Now, if you don't mind why people wants to the
court was doing in your office at five o'clock is more?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You must have been working all night on the new
parkerly up.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
They have to be out by.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
They have to be out by three this afternoon. All right,
window for fresh air tied down?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Deisi? Look, miss Simr Helen Brandt, Miss Brandt, Miss Brant,
I think you're one of the most despicable women I've
ever had the misfortune to meet.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
But I've got a very big job to get out
this afternoon. My assistant art directors home. Second, by the
time I interviewed. You can arrange the details with my.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Secretary in there, and frankly, the less I have to
do with you myself by better, I'll like it.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I think you'll change your mind about that, mister.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
We don't think draft off when you don't want to tell?
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Are you mister Farrell's secretary?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Oh well, I'm Helen Brandt, Marie Harris. How do you do?
How do you do? I'm taking Miss Thornton's.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Place, taking Miss Thornton's place. I see, yes, temporarily. Well,
you're not one to let the grass grow under your feet,
are you, My dear mister Fowl said, I could arrange
the details with you to be sure.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I expect you'd better make out one of our regular
employment forms. Well, thank you temporarily, you said, yes. Still
doesn't it feel a bit odd to be filling a
dead woman's shoes that are hardly cold?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So to speak?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I don't see anything so odd about it, Miss Harrins.
Somebody would have to No, of course you wouldn't my
previous experience.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Does it mean just in the advertising business, any experience
that might be applicable?
Speaker 8 (07:51):
It has occurred to you. I suppose, Miss Brandt, that
when someone like miss Thornton.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Is cut off in mid career so to speak, there's
usually a reason for it. They say it was a
nuts an accident.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Do they?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Now? This will be all right?
Speaker 9 (08:03):
Missiles?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yes, yes, I will do. Of course, there's always the
possibility of suicide. I suppose you've got to be I
suppose it might have been. Will you show me my
office pee? Certainly this way you might as well have
the dead woman's That is Miss Thornton's officer. And of
course there is another possibility, isn't there What other possibility?
(08:27):
The possibility of murder? Murder?
Speaker 8 (08:30):
Why, yes, here's your office, Miss bred If you need anything,
just call me. I want to make you as comfortable
as possible under the circumstance.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
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and Wally Mayer as Bill Farrell in Always Rom at
the Top.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
A pale well calculated to keep you in.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Suspend I'd met Marie Harris's type before, jealous of her authority,
is the boss's secretary, resentful of every newcomer, and determined
to make them uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
God was on the natural fort to resent.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Someone like myself, a total stranger who walked into the
job of our director for one of the best advertising
outfits in town, the William J.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Fowrell Agency. And even though mister Farrell.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Had said temporary, I knew that I had the job.
I knew it before the first campaign was over.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I was in.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
And then one night, the first of those funny little
things began to happen.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I was just taking off my hat and coat when
I saw it. There on my desk a picture, a
big flame picture of a dead girl. Jeane Thornton had.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Written across the face of it. It said, Bill Darling
to the swellest guy and the swellest boss.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
And a girl ever had admiring your predecessor, Miss Frant.
Where did that come from? I'm sure I haven't fantasied idea.
It wasn't there when I left last night.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
Somebody put it there, possibly some well wisher, Miss Frant,
some sincere well wisher, as a sort of warning.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
A warning of what what are you driving at?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Miss Darton and mister Ferrell were quite close at one time?
And what that got to do with me? You know
what happened, Miss Brandt to Miss Thornton.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Look, Marie, are you hinting that female art directors in
this office have a habit.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Of falling for the boss and then falling out the window.
I'm not hinting anything, Miss Brandt. You asked me for
an explanation of how the picture got there. I've given
you one. Doubtless it is far fetched. Certainly it must
seem so to you. It's crazy, of course, will that
be a Miss Brandt?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Miss Marie, let you and I cut out the formality
and let down out hear.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Is there anything around here that I well ought to know?
I'm sure I don't know what you mean, Miss Brandt?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
All right?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
The girl who used to have my job is dead.
You've been hitting round enough about it.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Is there anything that you know that I don't now?
Is that plain enough? Quite?
Speaker 8 (12:44):
I can only say that I have not hinted at anything.
I have perhaps engaged in certain idle speculations on matters
which were.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Better left as they are. That's all, Oh, k Marie.
But the way things look now, I'm liable to be
around here for quite a while. Oh, I should think
it likely, And you and I ought to learn to
get along. You'll have no trouble getting along with me,
Miss Frant. But you mean I may with him?
Speaker 8 (13:08):
I can only say, Miss Brant, as your sincere friend
and well wisher, yes, that you're working for a man
who's subject too singularly strong enthusiasms. Sometimes these enthusiasms are
apt to be carried to extremes. It is essential to
appreciate this in dealing with mister Ferrell.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I don't suppose this picture gag would be one of
mister Fowls's little enthusiasms.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Under the circumstances, I should think it most unlikely. It
wouldn't be one of yours, my little well wisher. No,
miss France, it would not.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
You couldn't help the believer. She was so prim and proper.
But I was determined to have a show down anyway
on the whole thing, my job and everything. I talked
him to Bill Fowl's.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Office with a picture in my hand and without benefit
of knocking.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Oh hello, Helen, something.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
That appears to be from your desk seems to aline
m here.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Where did you get that?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I just told you on my desk.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Your ever tactful Marie has suggested that some well wisher
left it as a.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Warning for Jeanie.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
She gave me that when that.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Explanation still seems to leave several questions on answering to Farrel.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Look, Kellen, you'll hear a lot of funny things in
this office, like any other office.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
To take my word for it, they don't mean a thing.
Just do your job the way you've been doing it,
and you'll you'll be all right.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
How right? Is there.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You like the job, don't you?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I like the work. I haven't got the job.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Do you want it?
Speaker 10 (14:36):
What do you think?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You've certainly ended Helen.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Will you stop beating around the bush? Am I the
new art director of the William J. Farrell Agency?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Or not?
Speaker 11 (14:46):
All right?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You are? You are hereby officially the new art director
of the William J.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Farrell Agency.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
From this stay forward until.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Until fourth.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
As as long as you went the job.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Heaven until death do us parts, was what he'd started
to say.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I forgot it, though I forgot it almost the moment
he said it. For the next twenty four hours, I
was walking on it. It wasn't just a job, it
was something even better. I knew Bill Fower was falling
in love with me. I knew that was just a
matter of time too. M m hm h morning, Marie.
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Mister Fowl is not yet, Miss Brand. I wish you
wouldn't be so formal with me, Marie.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Everybody calls everybody else by their first names around here,
except you.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I am used to more conventional methods in most things.
Miss Brand's okay, okay, I'll let me know when he
comes in. Now, w you I want to see him.
Speaker 10 (15:49):
Yes, Miss Brandon, Hello, Bill Darling.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
Yah, I got it just this morning down and so
I wanted to tell you how sweet was Thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
This way n.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
Me.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Yes, Miss Brandy, I just heard her. Boy Whose boys?
Speaker 10 (16:21):
Miss Brain?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Who's Jean? Miss Thornton?
Speaker 8 (16:25):
Why don't you lie down on the couch by a moment,
Miss Brane. You've been working too hard lately, and I'll
get you some waters.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
No, I'll tell you I heard it why in this room?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
In this room, Yes, I know it was because there
was that music box too, that cigarette.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Case of hers.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Oh, yes, yes, I remember it, so.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Do I cause the last time I heard it was
down there when they were picking up with things.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
There's no one here now, missus Brandt, no one but
you and mean I know, but I heard it.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Was she was it speaking to you?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
And this voice?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
No to build mister Salm, something personal? Oh this idea?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Say?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Have you ever looked in this closet by the door on,
Miss brand but not especially No.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
I think there's probably a perfectly logical explanation of what
you heard, Miss brand Yes, yes you see. Oh a dictograph.
It used to be Miss Thornton's. They use dictographs for everything.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
In this office. They say it saved them forty thousand
dollars a year in stenographic health. I see something must
have turned it on. Yes, there you.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
See this box of pencils, but it's fallen off the shelf.
It must have been that what turned it off, Marie.
I'm sure I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
It's quite simple, isn't it. Here's the switch. Stop it,
stop it, yes, miss Brand, and I'll get it out
of you. Certainly, miss Brand. Is there any particular I
don't care what you do with it. Do anything you like,
Throw it out the wind. What was that, Miss Brand?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Just get it out of here and leave me alone.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
It's silly. I know that it could have happened that way.
It must turn That's as Marie said.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
And all the time in the back of my mind
was lurking horror, a nameless thing that I felt hanging
over that arm and over me, something about.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
A girl who was dead.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
A girl would plunged to her death from that same
dark tower that was now my dark tower, flung screaming
to her death.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Only a few short weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
The next night, I had work late again to make
up I'd been out to supper alone.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I was conscious of the light still burning in Bill's
office when I got back.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I wasn't particularly anxious to see him just then, truthful,
I was avoiding him.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I suppose I'd been in my office about an hour
and a half on the form rang. I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Strange because I was certain that I'd ask to have
my nightline just connected out of habit. I'd picked it
up to answer, Hell, Bill, Bill, is it you?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Bill?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Helena? Tell me what's happened?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I heard her again? Heard who dear Jean Jean daught
with Jeane.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Yes, I know it was, I swear, But Darling, it
couldn't have been.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I think I'm going there, Helen.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Darling listened to me.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Picture all right, But.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Helen, Helen, look at me. Yes, Bill, I love you, Helen.
You know that, don't you?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yes? Oh, yes, Darling, I do. I'm afraid. There's nothing
to be afraid of, Darling. No, not that I'm afraid,
because now I know this. You're afraid.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I am. Yes, you are, aren't you, Helen?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I will please. You've got to tell.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Me now, Hello, Darling. I'm in a jam, A bad jam,
an awful bad jam. Yes, but it's nothing that you
have to worry about. It's nothing that isn't going to
straighten itself out. It's nothing that I'm going to let affect.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Us, ever, Bill, if it affects you, it does affect us. Darling, Darling,
you've got to trust me just a little longer, Bill,
I do, I will. But it's about Jean.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yes, yes, it's about Jean.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Then it was. She didn't just fall.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
It was a terrible thing, how and.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Terrible about as terrible as it could be. But Helen,
just remember this, darling. There's nothing to be afraid of it. It'll
all be over soon, very soon.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Is that all all you can tell me?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
It's all I can tell you now, Oh, darling, I
know what this is like for you.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But please please go home.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Now and forget all about it.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
We'll try try anyway.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
I've got some things to finish up here, and then
I'll call for you and we'll start making our friends.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Oh you will marry me, won't you?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Heaven?
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Bill? Yes, then then everything's all right.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Go on not go on a good night for now.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
My DearS.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Good night. I went out. I didn't go home. I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
I walked walked from ray, trying to think. But nothing
made any sense except that I was in love and
an anagony of fear for what might happen to spoil it.
And sudden I realized that I had to know everything
now tonight, whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
So I went back to the office. Their light was
still on, and I was just at the door when
I stopped.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Suppose somebody saw you and recognized message. Did that? I
gave no message to no one. Why do you like
me like that?
Speaker 7 (21:22):
I'm not going to.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I threw open the door and she was standing there. Jean,
you thought me a woman who was dead? And I
came to I was lying on the couch and Bill's office.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
That first, it seems perfectly natural, lying there and Bill
sitting beside me, holding my hands. Her there, Jean standing
over by the desk talking to him.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Well, what are you going to do about her? Do?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
What do you mean, Doude, We're going to.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Have to do something. She knows that she or she
will when she snapped out of I'm not going to
do anything.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You're in love with it if I.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Am, because it makes a difference, My sweet to me, Oh, darling,
it's all right, is she is she really?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yes? Yes, it's Gane. But I saw her morning. I
saw how long you were supposed to think and who
just a girl. You might as well tell her at
least then she'll be in at as deep as the
rest of us.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Jean, Please, your.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
Boyfriend there had been dipping into the till about a
quarter of a million dollars worth of.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
The client's money.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
My insurance and what the company had me insured for
was that's about enough to cover it.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Like a fool, I agreed to it. I thought he
was in love with me then.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
But there was a girl, a girl who worked in
the office, no friends, no family. I fired her the
day before, then got her to come up here that night.
Another chance, marveling, I said, was my clothes cigarette case?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I dug up another one. I knew people would remember that.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I told you what was bad, Oh darling, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I don't care what it was long.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
I think you'd better let me take charge of things now,
mister ferl Marie, please don't move.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I'm quite prepared to shoot if I have to.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Marie, this is insane?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Is it the shakedown?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Marie?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Quite a lot, I'm afraid.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Mister Ferroll.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
And how do you expect to get it. That's your
word against ours, three of us. You forget, Miss Thornton,
that you are legally dead.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
As for the rest, do you remember, miss Brandt, that
I said we used dick to grass for practically everything
in this office.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
It was you that I tried my best to warn you.
Miss Brandt, I'm truly sorry for you.
Speaker 10 (23:31):
Listen, you might as well tell her.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I please, then shall be in a steak of the
rest of us.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
See, please, your boyfriend there's been dipping into the till about.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
A quarter of a million dollars worth of the client's
money my insurance.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
There is more, of course, but I am sure that
will suffice.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Now, Miss Thornton, I think you and I had better
have a little talk alone.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
What do you want us to do?
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Marie?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I'll come to you later, mister Ferrell.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
For the moment, I must ask you to step into
the conference room behind you, you too, Miss Branton.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Marie, please, mister Ferrell.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Not now.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
I shall have to lock you in, but it will
not be for long anything, you know, of course, if
there's no.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Other way out except down.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
We stood there, huddle together by the lockdown, but we
could hear nothing.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Time like a window being opened and then bye?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
What have you done to missus?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Thornton has shall we say, taken the easy way out?
Very well? If you prefer I'm sure it can make
a little difference. Now you, miss Bradha take it.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
Are in love with mister Ferroll in spite of my warnings,
and I'm sure I can count on your silence, knowing
the results to mister Farrell if you were to.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Break it any fun, I'm afraid your marital plans will
have to wait. What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
I think it's best this way for my own protection.
Of course, if anything were to happen to mister Farrell
this way, everything.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Would to.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
The firm and the money. You see, miss brand, mister
Ferrell is going to marry me. I looked at still.
I knew he'd do it. She said what else? I
turned and left the room without speaking.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
In my own office I found a little automatic for
lately I had always kept it. When I came back,
Bill were staring out the window and Marie was making
up her face from a little contact.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
They didn't even glance in my direction. I'm waiting for
the police.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I've been looking over the UA layouts, the dos Atself
campaign is particularly good.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
We get it together, Bill Nice.
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