August 22, 2025 • 29 mins
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The Death of Me, starring mister George Murphy, hoping once
again to keep you in Sal Spence, I should have told.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Sal when it began, Even after we were married, all
I'd said about what happened to me in the war
was that I'd been wounded. I guess I put it
that way because, well, maybe I was ashamed. Battle fatigue.
The docs called it like a nervous breakdown. At the
bottom of it was fear. I'd learned that, but not
ordinary fear. It was like some powerful, misty thing. Well
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they call it imaginary fear. That's why I wanted the
job away from everything fresh air exercise. I had to
get a grip on it before it got worse. The
place was upstate, way back upstate, and it took most
of the day to drive there. But even then, when
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I could still realize what was happening to me. I
just couldn't tell Sal.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Why, Harry, I still don't get it. Why'd you have
to quit your job?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
How?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
But you really got fired?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
No, I'm not fired, Sal, like I told you, it's
a leave of absence.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
It's crazy going off to this jerkwater town on the
hills that working a two bit lumber camp was dull enough,
right what we were.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Well, it won't be for long, honey, I know it,
just long enough for me to The change will be
good for both of us.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
We must have passed the place you made a wrong
turn or something.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Map says only one road, can't be much farther.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
What's the name of this dump anyway?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
McKay, Bixby and Laush is the name of the outfit.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I bet they don't even wear shoes as far back
in the hills, Hillbillies.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
There it is up ahead. See.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah, I'm thrilled.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
The town was old, maybe two hundred people in a
place that once held two thousand. I couldn't blame Sal
for not wanting to come. She was pretty, the kind
of a woman that men looked at. She liked excitement.
There hadn't been very much in our life, and well,
It made me feel better knowing that I wouldn't be
alone being Laus was a worn looking building on the
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main street. Sam Bixby was a big man with cold,
hard little eyes. Yeah, they told me he was coming.
Names Harry Sawyer. Huh kind of puny for a logger,
ain't you, Harry? Oh, I can pull my weight, mister Bixby.
I had done it before. Maybe this ain't one of
them big fancy logging outfits. We're small than we work hard.
I expect to At your wife, I'll turn the car. Yeah,
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you can't take her out to the camp. She'll have
to stay here in town except on Saturday nights. Yeah,
I understand. Well, I guess you'll do. Job's only good
for a month. Then I'm hired. Yeah, you're hired. Come on,
I'll buy you and your wife a drink. Well, thanks,
mister Bixby, but we're not settling. All right, another time.
I'll see you in the morning and truck leaves at six.
I'll be ready and thanks. Well, I'm hired. It's out
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of town. You will have to stay here for how long? Oh? Month?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
A month? And miss dump that's really something to look
forward to. Well, what do we do sleep in the car.
I'm hungry.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Well, there's a sign down the street.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Rooms rooms, but the reason even a private bath in
the whole town.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It wasn't too bad. At least the room was clean.
Sal took a long time getting her hair just so
and the lipstick just right like she always did. Before
we went to eat, the guy downstairs said the best
place was Myra's, a bar up the street. Everybody ate there,
mark coffee, No just.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
The check, no check anything else?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
What do you mean no check?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
It's been paid, even the tip.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Well give it back, sweetheart. I don't go for stock.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Oh, don't be silly, Harry. Someone wants to pay the check.
Let him. Doesn't mean anything, Sure, mister, you don't mean anything.
It was a good tip. Who is this? He mass?
That's your I'm coming this way, big Sam Bixby.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I hope you folks don't mind me button then, Yeah,
that's your wife, and I ain't often we have a
looker like you in m cave, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Thanks for the dinner, mister Bixby. We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I don't mention it. I'll see in the morning. Yeah, thanks,
good night. I knew I shouldn't have let it get me.
But it was the way he looked at Sal, not
at me. Once it was ridiculous to think anything. He
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was just being friendly. But even back in the room,
it still bothered me the way he looked at Sal.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
What's the matter with you, Harry? You look funny?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Huh oh, nothing, nothing, Everything's fine. You ready to go
to sleep?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Since I finished my hair? So that uh Vixby's boss huh.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, a nice guy.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Don't you like him?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Don't know yet?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
All right? Do you think my hair looks better up
or down?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh? You look good with it either way.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I just wondered. Okay, you can turn off the light.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Sal. Everything's going to be all right, isn't it. I
mean the town.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I guess it won't be so bad.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I love yoursel. You know that, don't you.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Let's get some sleep. You got to get up early.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Morning. You sawyer. Yes, McCall's my name, Ludy McCall. Hello.
We are riding not to the camp together. Don't rightly know?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Meyro wants to see you, Meyra Laosh the other half
of Bixby and Laush.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Is it something wrong?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
I don't rightly know. In the office there, she'll.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Tell you miss Lausch shut the door. You wanted to
see me, that's right, I.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Wanted to see you.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
You're fired, Sawyer fired. Why you're fired.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
That's all it is to it. I get out, get
clear out of town.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
But I thought, mister Bis, I don't care what mister
Bigsby said. You get out of a cave. The point
my name's going on in here, Honey, I swear I
can hear you clear a cold bill.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Well, I don't like it, that's all Sam. You're hiring
every Tom, Dick and Harry that comes down the pike.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I just don't like Honey. You may be a partner
in this company, but I run it. I hired Sawyer.
When the time comes, I'll say when he goes all right.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
But there's gonna be trouble, Sam, you know it.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I know it.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
There's gonna be trouble.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Getting the truck, Sawyer. We're wasting time.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
It's kind of cold riding a truck bed this morning.
I think Sam would let us ride in a case
with him. Huh oh, yeah, I see you still got
your scalp. Myra can really boil over, can't you. Yeah,
here's the camp. There's anything else you want to know,
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just ask me. They say, I'm the biggest busy body
in these parts.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
All right, boys, find a bunk Sawyer. Then you and
Ludy made me at the office and snap it up.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
There's an empty bunk next to me.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Okay, sure, Say what's that smell in the air swamp?
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Huh oh yeah down over yonder good timber growing there too.
I don't know what Sam's saving it for.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I was worried at first I might be put off
somewhere alone, but Sam teemed me up with Looty. After that,
there wasn't time to think about anything but work. It
was just what I needed and LOUDI made good company
that night. It was a dreamless sleep, the first I had.
By the third day, I was used to everything except
that heavy decay field smell as swamp. Then on the
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fourth day.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
That's the only part I like watching him fall. Dude,
you're getting pretty good.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Thanks. Yeah, he was doing all right.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Huh oh, Sam didn't know you was back up from Tom.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Looks like he got Sawyer broken right. Oh, it ain't me, Sam.
He's a good worker. Looks like it be good on Cyprus.
Come on, say I got a special job for you,
me too, Sam, just sawyer. He can do this alone.
Special job, mister Bixby. Yeah, that acts sharp. Sure, what
is it? You'll see? You said, cypress? Doesn't cypress grow
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in the swamp? Yeah what cypress? Watch your footing on? Ah,
there's your job through the mist six cybrus Well that's
a big job, mister Bixby, and footing like this, wouldn't
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it be better? You can't spare anybody. You'll do it alone. Yes,
but I told you we work hard around here. Just
watch your footing, don't slip at the wrong time. I
was alone. Maybe another day working with someone and being
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there alone wouldn't have seemed so What could I say?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
That?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
It was a sickness, this thing, this fear that I
didn't want to be alone, not yet, because I was sick.
Would you have understood? Would Sal? Would anyone have understood
what it was like? It was all around me, this
thing in the mist. I had to fight it. I
couldn't let it win. I had to fight it for Sal.
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That's why I had come here to work, work for Sal.
Work for Sal. Hey huh oh, Ludy.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Working like a crazy man after quitting time almost too
dark to see.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Well, I gotta finish this one.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
I'll go on, rest yourself, go get some water, I'll
finish it.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I guess. I guess I could use a drink. I
was tired, aching, tired, but I had stayed there. That
was all it mattered. For the first time, I began
to feel good, really good. There was water near the
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bunk house, and I went there and drank and started back.
It was going to be easy now. I was on
my way up. I was almost there when I stopped.
I guess it was seeing Loody there at the tree,
just like I had been. There was something about it,
like I was watching myself. Then I realized there was
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something someone else there in the darkness behind him. Then
he came out of the gloom holding an axe. It
was big Sam. I froze. I couldn't move. I knew
what was going to happen. I couldn't move. The axe
came flashing down.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
I watched myself die.
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Speaker 3 (15:42):
It looked like an accident. Ludy's body lay face down
in the slime under the fallen tree. But I couldn't
get it out of my mind, the feeling that I
should have been lying there with Sam and the sheriff
looking down at me. Just don't look right, Sam, just
don't look right there on him. Floyd in a plane
that wound in the back of the head. How'd that happened?
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Heavy branch right there must have done it?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
And then maybe I couldn't see any footprints, if there
was any in this.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Do you think somebody done it on purpose? That's just
playing stupid Floyd. Who'd want to kill Loudy? I don't know,
but just don't seem likely he'd be dumb enough to
stand there and let a tree fall on him. Well,
maybe you slip. Maybe we gotta have an inquest. He
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had guts to stand there over Ludy's body, But why
why kill Ludy? Then he looked at me, just a glance,
but I saw it as if he knew I had
seen him kill. Okay, fine, when I got to town,
I'd go straight to the room. Then at the inquest,
I'd hang him from just a.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Minute, these god snaps on this dress. I wasn't expecting
you so soon, Harry.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
What's the matter?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Why nothing? I set out for coffee and I thought.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
What what did you think?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I don't know, what are you doing in town? You
didn't get fired.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I'm here for the inquest.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
In quest? Oh, so that's what all the buzzon is about.
I thought it was some kind of accident.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
It wasn't an accident. It was murder. I saw it, Sal,
I saw Sam Bixby kill a man.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
You saw Sam Bixby killed.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Oh, it looks like an accident. It looks real good,
like an accident. But it isn't what It's awful, is it? Sal?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Of course it is what's got into you anyway?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Well, for a minute I thought that it's just that
I saw it happen, and I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
You're just upset, that's all. Now, what about that inquest?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
They said at the bar, as soon as the coroner
gets here, are you gonna go? Yeah? I guess we better.
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All right, everybody's sail down out, Mary.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Could you kindly.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Close the bar till the.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Room back up? Boys?
Speaker 6 (18:22):
That's all this here is, mister John Cahill the county card.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
He's gonna run this thing. Hut that Now, this is serious, Sawyer.
I told the other boys not to waste any time
up there. I ain't had a chance to talk with you.
You were supposed to be working that cypress alone. Yes,
just tell him where he was at the time. We'll
talk about that later, all right. I think there's a
couple of seats down front. Well, this is fine right here.
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I watched him slip back into the crowd. It was
like some bad dream. I had been so sure, but
but now I wasn't sure of anything. Maybe I hadn't
seen it at all, but I had. Ludy was dead.
I had to tell.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Harry Sawyer, Harry, that's you. You'll do the right thing.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yes, I I'll do the right thing. Name Harry Sawyer.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Oh, mister Sawyer. If you've been watching the proceedings, you
know what we're trying to get at. We've got to
try to determine.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
The fact trans mis game. I looked up and saw Bixby.
Our eyes met and locked. All I remember was the mist.
It was everywhere I was back in the mist, and
I couldn't tell I was making a terrible terrible mistake.
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But I couldn't say anything but yes and no. And
it was over the Verdicres.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
After this one looting, McCall met his death through accidental coursey.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
You will write, honey, you did right, Sal.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
We've got to leave. We've got to get out of here. Yeah,
how about you and your wife having a drink with me?
Oh you won't remember.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Why, Yeah, mister Bixby, of course that'll be nice.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, there's booth here, Sal, listen, we've.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Got to harry. Yeah, this is fine.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Good. And after we have a drink, let's say we're
right out to the camp. This is Saturday. You know
we have a big time at the camp on Saturday. Well,
I don't think Sal would. Why sure? She would? You
want your wife to see where you work, don't you sure?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Honey? Ought to be fun.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, there's whiskey and gambling. Myra runs the table. But
you can never tell. You might win something. We'll have
a fine time. He knew I had seen him kill,
and he was cold, cold as ice. Sala didn't realize.
She didn't understand that I'd made a terrible, terrible mistake.
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We couldn't go back there. It was just what he wanted.
We shouldn't have come, Sal, You don't understand. We gotta leave.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Listen, Harry, everything's all right now, we'll go with the
dice game. Play a few bucks, act natural.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Where's the point? Little Joe?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
All right? Better dollar? The pass line doesn't matter anything.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Ah, here you are. I brought you some drinks. How
almost spilled him? Why I saw you? You ain't showed
your wife around?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Jad Harry wanted to shoot some dice.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Oh I suppose I show you around? If Harry don't mind.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Oh yeah, you don't mind, do you, Honey?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Well, no, no, I don't mind. Fine. They got a
mighty interesting place here, o Sal Sal wait.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Next shooter, Sawyer, it's your dice.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I wanted to run, run after Sal, run away from everything,
but I had to act natural, natural.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Seven.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
The shooter wins, and that was the beginning. I threw
seven after seven. I couldn't lose. I'd never been lucky before,
but now I couldn't lose eleven naturally.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Don't you think you just about run the luck out
of those dice?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Sire?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Your luck's bound to change?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
You know I'm right.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I picked up the money, but I couldn't leave without Sal.
She didn't realize, and then it hit me. It wasn't luck.
That's why he'd taken her away. That's why the dice
had kept me. He wanted me to come looking out there.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Why we come here, Sam, it's filthy talk. There's nothing
more to talk about. How did you get so mixed up?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It was duck, I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
And I didn't tell you to kill anybody.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
It was your Rightdea. You're in this too.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Don't be crazy, Oh I said, was if something just
happened to Harry naturally, I have to stay a longer.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
You it's all.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Over, Sam. You're not saying anything. We're leaving. Get it
through your head.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Wait for someone. It's me, Sam, It's only me. I'm here.
Isn't that what you wanted? What?
Speaker 4 (23:35):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
You gonna do nothing. I'm gonna kill.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Tell him you don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Stop it, I'll shoot.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
All right.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Listen to me, Sam, it's not worth it. She isn't
worth it.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
You're awful. Nose am to nosy. No, I want that gun.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Stay there, don't take this sho.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
You wouldn't shoot your partners you wouldn't shut me, your partner,
You wouldn't. So he's dead, Maria.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I'll take the gun. No, no, I don't.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Have to hold you. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I loved him.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
It was hurt.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
How about getting you a wife out of here?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Sawyer leave McKay.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Don't come back, Harry, Harry, don't just sit there.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Say something. I know what you're thinking, but you're wrong, Harry.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Keep away, Soud.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
It's a matter. Are you afraid of me?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
No? No, I'm all over being afraid.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I was just setting fix me up. That's all. We
could have made him pay a fortune to keep it quiet.
Don't you see? I was only doing it for you.
What are we stopping for?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
This is where you get out?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Get out. You're gonna leave me here? What'll I do it?
There's nothing Where'll I go?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
The roads are many, the world is wide. Get out, Harry.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
You can't leave me here. I'm your wife. Take me
with you. You've got to.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
It's a matter of self preservation, Honey. Sooner or later
you'd be the death of me. Hi, don't leave me.
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Speaker 3 (02:03):
Sal when it began, Even after we were married, all
I'd said about what happened to me in the war
was that I'd been wounded. I guess I put it
that way because, well, maybe I was ashamed. Battle fatigue.
The docs called it like a nervous breakdown. At the
bottom of it was fear. I'd learned that, but not
ordinary fear. It was like some powerful, misty thing. Well
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they call it imaginary fear. That's why I wanted the
job away from everything fresh air exercise. I had to
get a grip on it before it got worse. The
place was upstate, way back upstate, and it took most
of the day to drive there. But even then, when
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I could still realize what was happening to me. I
just couldn't tell Sal.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Why, Harry, I still don't get it. Why'd you have
to quit your job?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
How?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
But you really got fired?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
No, I'm not fired, Sal, like I told you, it's
a leave of absence.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
It's crazy going off to this jerkwater town on the
hills that working a two bit lumber camp was dull enough,
right what we were.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Well, it won't be for long, honey, I know it,
just long enough for me to The change will be
good for both of us.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
We must have passed the place you made a wrong
turn or something.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Map says only one road, can't be much farther.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
What's the name of this dump anyway?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
McKay, Bixby and Laush is the name of the outfit.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I bet they don't even wear shoes as far back
in the hills, Hillbillies.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
There it is up ahead. See.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah, I'm thrilled.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
The town was old, maybe two hundred people in a
place that once held two thousand. I couldn't blame Sal
for not wanting to come. She was pretty, the kind
of a woman that men looked at. She liked excitement.
There hadn't been very much in our life, and well,
It made me feel better knowing that I wouldn't be
alone being Laus was a worn looking building on the
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main street. Sam Bixby was a big man with cold,
hard little eyes. Yeah, they told me he was coming.
Names Harry Sawyer. Huh kind of puny for a logger,
ain't you, Harry? Oh, I can pull my weight, mister Bixby.
I had done it before. Maybe this ain't one of
them big fancy logging outfits. We're small than we work hard.
I expect to At your wife, I'll turn the car. Yeah,
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you can't take her out to the camp. She'll have
to stay here in town except on Saturday nights. Yeah,
I understand. Well, I guess you'll do. Job's only good
for a month. Then I'm hired. Yeah, you're hired. Come on,
I'll buy you and your wife a drink. Well, thanks,
mister Bixby, but we're not settling. All right, another time.
I'll see you in the morning and truck leaves at six.
I'll be ready and thanks. Well, I'm hired. It's out
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of town. You will have to stay here for how long? Oh? Month?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
A month? And miss dump that's really something to look
forward to. Well, what do we do sleep in the car.
I'm hungry.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Well, there's a sign down the street.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Rooms rooms, but the reason even a private bath in
the whole town.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It wasn't too bad. At least the room was clean.
Sal took a long time getting her hair just so
and the lipstick just right like she always did. Before
we went to eat, the guy downstairs said the best
place was Myra's, a bar up the street. Everybody ate there,
mark coffee, No just.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
The check, no check anything else?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
What do you mean no check?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
It's been paid, even the tip.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Well give it back, sweetheart. I don't go for stock.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Oh, don't be silly, Harry. Someone wants to pay the check.
Let him. Doesn't mean anything, Sure, mister, you don't mean anything.
It was a good tip. Who is this? He mass?
That's your I'm coming this way, big Sam Bixby.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I hope you folks don't mind me button then, Yeah,
that's your wife, and I ain't often we have a
looker like you in m cave, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Thanks for the dinner, mister Bixby. We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I don't mention it. I'll see in the morning. Yeah, thanks,
good night. I knew I shouldn't have let it get me.
But it was the way he looked at Sal, not
at me. Once it was ridiculous to think anything. He
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was just being friendly. But even back in the room,
it still bothered me the way he looked at Sal.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
What's the matter with you, Harry? You look funny?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Huh oh, nothing, nothing, Everything's fine. You ready to go
to sleep?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Since I finished my hair? So that uh Vixby's boss huh.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, a nice guy.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Don't you like him?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Don't know yet?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
All right? Do you think my hair looks better up
or down?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh? You look good with it either way.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I just wondered. Okay, you can turn off the light.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Sal. Everything's going to be all right, isn't it. I
mean the town.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I guess it won't be so bad.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I love yoursel. You know that, don't you.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Let's get some sleep. You got to get up early.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Morning. You sawyer. Yes, McCall's my name, Ludy McCall. Hello.
We are riding not to the camp together. Don't rightly know?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Meyro wants to see you, Meyra Laosh the other half
of Bixby and Laush.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Is it something wrong?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
I don't rightly know. In the office there, she'll.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Tell you miss Lausch shut the door. You wanted to
see me, that's right, I.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Wanted to see you.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
You're fired, Sawyer fired. Why you're fired.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
That's all it is to it. I get out, get
clear out of town.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
But I thought, mister Bis, I don't care what mister
Bigsby said. You get out of a cave. The point
my name's going on in here, Honey, I swear I
can hear you clear a cold bill.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Well, I don't like it, that's all Sam. You're hiring
every Tom, Dick and Harry that comes down the pike.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I just don't like Honey. You may be a partner
in this company, but I run it. I hired Sawyer.
When the time comes, I'll say when he goes all right.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
But there's gonna be trouble, Sam, you know it.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I know it.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
There's gonna be trouble.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Getting the truck, Sawyer. We're wasting time.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
It's kind of cold riding a truck bed this morning.
I think Sam would let us ride in a case
with him. Huh oh, yeah, I see you still got
your scalp. Myra can really boil over, can't you. Yeah,
here's the camp. There's anything else you want to know,
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just ask me. They say, I'm the biggest busy body
in these parts.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
All right, boys, find a bunk Sawyer. Then you and
Ludy made me at the office and snap it up.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
There's an empty bunk next to me.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Okay, sure, Say what's that smell in the air swamp?
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Huh oh yeah down over yonder good timber growing there too.
I don't know what Sam's saving it for.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I was worried at first I might be put off
somewhere alone, but Sam teemed me up with Looty. After that,
there wasn't time to think about anything but work. It
was just what I needed and LOUDI made good company
that night. It was a dreamless sleep, the first I had.
By the third day, I was used to everything except
that heavy decay field smell as swamp. Then on the
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fourth day.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
That's the only part I like watching him fall. Dude,
you're getting pretty good.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Thanks. Yeah, he was doing all right.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Huh oh, Sam didn't know you was back up from Tom.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Looks like he got Sawyer broken right. Oh, it ain't me, Sam.
He's a good worker. Looks like it be good on Cyprus.
Come on, say I got a special job for you,
me too, Sam, just sawyer. He can do this alone.
Special job, mister Bixby. Yeah, that acts sharp. Sure, what
is it? You'll see? You said, cypress? Doesn't cypress grow
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in the swamp? Yeah what cypress? Watch your footing on? Ah,
there's your job through the mist six cybrus Well that's
a big job, mister Bixby, and footing like this, wouldn't
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it be better? You can't spare anybody. You'll do it alone. Yes,
but I told you we work hard around here. Just
watch your footing, don't slip at the wrong time. I
was alone. Maybe another day working with someone and being
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there alone wouldn't have seemed so What could I say?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
That?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
It was a sickness, this thing, this fear that I
didn't want to be alone, not yet, because I was sick.
Would you have understood? Would Sal? Would anyone have understood
what it was like? It was all around me, this
thing in the mist. I had to fight it. I
couldn't let it win. I had to fight it for Sal.
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That's why I had come here to work, work for Sal.
Work for Sal. Hey huh oh, Ludy.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Working like a crazy man after quitting time almost too
dark to see.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Well, I gotta finish this one.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
I'll go on, rest yourself, go get some water, I'll
finish it.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I guess. I guess I could use a drink. I
was tired, aching, tired, but I had stayed there. That
was all it mattered. For the first time, I began
to feel good, really good. There was water near the
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bunk house, and I went there and drank and started back.
It was going to be easy now. I was on
my way up. I was almost there when I stopped.
I guess it was seeing Loody there at the tree,
just like I had been. There was something about it,
like I was watching myself. Then I realized there was
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something someone else there in the darkness behind him. Then
he came out of the gloom holding an axe. It
was big Sam. I froze. I couldn't move. I knew
what was going to happen. I couldn't move. The axe
came flashing down.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
I watched myself die.
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Speaker 3 (15:42):
It looked like an accident. Ludy's body lay face down
in the slime under the fallen tree. But I couldn't
get it out of my mind, the feeling that I
should have been lying there with Sam and the sheriff
looking down at me. Just don't look right, Sam, just
don't look right there on him. Floyd in a plane
that wound in the back of the head. How'd that happened?
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Heavy branch right there must have done it?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
And then maybe I couldn't see any footprints, if there
was any in this.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Do you think somebody done it on purpose? That's just
playing stupid Floyd. Who'd want to kill Loudy? I don't know,
but just don't seem likely he'd be dumb enough to
stand there and let a tree fall on him. Well,
maybe you slip. Maybe we gotta have an inquest. He
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had guts to stand there over Ludy's body, But why
why kill Ludy? Then he looked at me, just a glance,
but I saw it as if he knew I had
seen him kill. Okay, fine, when I got to town,
I'd go straight to the room. Then at the inquest,
I'd hang him from just a.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Minute, these god snaps on this dress. I wasn't expecting
you so soon, Harry.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
What's the matter?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Why nothing? I set out for coffee and I thought.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
What what did you think?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I don't know, what are you doing in town? You
didn't get fired.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I'm here for the inquest.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
In quest? Oh, so that's what all the buzzon is about.
I thought it was some kind of accident.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
It wasn't an accident. It was murder. I saw it, Sal,
I saw Sam Bixby kill a man.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
You saw Sam Bixby killed.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Oh, it looks like an accident. It looks real good,
like an accident. But it isn't what It's awful, is it? Sal?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Of course it is what's got into you anyway?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Well, for a minute I thought that it's just that
I saw it happen, and I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
You're just upset, that's all. Now, what about that inquest?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
They said at the bar, as soon as the coroner
gets here, are you gonna go? Yeah? I guess we better.
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All right, everybody's sail down out, Mary.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Could you kindly.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Close the bar till the.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Room back up? Boys?
Speaker 6 (18:22):
That's all this here is, mister John Cahill the county card.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
He's gonna run this thing. Hut that Now, this is serious, Sawyer.
I told the other boys not to waste any time
up there. I ain't had a chance to talk with you.
You were supposed to be working that cypress alone. Yes,
just tell him where he was at the time. We'll
talk about that later, all right. I think there's a
couple of seats down front. Well, this is fine right here.
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I watched him slip back into the crowd. It was
like some bad dream. I had been so sure, but
but now I wasn't sure of anything. Maybe I hadn't
seen it at all, but I had. Ludy was dead.
I had to tell.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Harry Sawyer, Harry, that's you. You'll do the right thing.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yes, I I'll do the right thing. Name Harry Sawyer.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Oh, mister Sawyer. If you've been watching the proceedings, you
know what we're trying to get at. We've got to
try to determine.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
The fact trans mis game. I looked up and saw Bixby.
Our eyes met and locked. All I remember was the mist.
It was everywhere I was back in the mist, and
I couldn't tell I was making a terrible terrible mistake.
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But I couldn't say anything but yes and no. And
it was over the Verdicres.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
After this one looting, McCall met his death through accidental coursey.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
You will write, honey, you did right, Sal.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
We've got to leave. We've got to get out of here. Yeah,
how about you and your wife having a drink with me?
Oh you won't remember.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Why, Yeah, mister Bixby, of course that'll be nice.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, there's booth here, Sal, listen, we've.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Got to harry. Yeah, this is fine.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Good. And after we have a drink, let's say we're
right out to the camp. This is Saturday. You know
we have a big time at the camp on Saturday. Well,
I don't think Sal would. Why sure? She would? You
want your wife to see where you work, don't you sure?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Honey? Ought to be fun.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, there's whiskey and gambling. Myra runs the table. But
you can never tell. You might win something. We'll have
a fine time. He knew I had seen him kill,
and he was cold, cold as ice. Sala didn't realize.
She didn't understand that I'd made a terrible, terrible mistake.
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We couldn't go back there. It was just what he wanted.
We shouldn't have come, Sal, You don't understand. We gotta leave.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Listen, Harry, everything's all right now, we'll go with the
dice game. Play a few bucks, act natural.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Where's the point? Little Joe?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
All right? Better dollar? The pass line doesn't matter anything.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Ah, here you are. I brought you some drinks. How
almost spilled him? Why I saw you? You ain't showed
your wife around?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Jad Harry wanted to shoot some dice.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Oh I suppose I show you around? If Harry don't mind.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Oh yeah, you don't mind, do you, Honey?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Well, no, no, I don't mind. Fine. They got a
mighty interesting place here, o Sal Sal wait.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Next shooter, Sawyer, it's your dice.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I wanted to run, run after Sal, run away from everything,
but I had to act natural, natural.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Seven.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
The shooter wins, and that was the beginning. I threw
seven after seven. I couldn't lose. I'd never been lucky before,
but now I couldn't lose eleven naturally.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Don't you think you just about run the luck out
of those dice?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Sire?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Your luck's bound to change?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
You know I'm right.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I picked up the money, but I couldn't leave without Sal.
She didn't realize, and then it hit me. It wasn't luck.
That's why he'd taken her away. That's why the dice
had kept me. He wanted me to come looking out there.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Why we come here, Sam, it's filthy talk. There's nothing
more to talk about. How did you get so mixed up?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It was duck, I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
And I didn't tell you to kill anybody.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
It was your Rightdea. You're in this too.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Don't be crazy, Oh I said, was if something just
happened to Harry naturally, I have to stay a longer.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
You it's all.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Over, Sam. You're not saying anything. We're leaving. Get it
through your head.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Wait for someone. It's me, Sam, It's only me. I'm here.
Isn't that what you wanted? What?
Speaker 4 (23:35):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
You gonna do nothing. I'm gonna kill.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Tell him you don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Stop it, I'll shoot.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
All right.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Listen to me, Sam, it's not worth it. She isn't
worth it.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
You're awful. Nose am to nosy. No, I want that gun.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Stay there, don't take this sho.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
You wouldn't shoot your partners you wouldn't shut me, your partner,
You wouldn't. So he's dead, Maria.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I'll take the gun. No, no, I don't.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Have to hold you. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I loved him.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
It was hurt.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
How about getting you a wife out of here?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Sawyer leave McKay.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Don't come back, Harry, Harry, don't just sit there.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Say something. I know what you're thinking, but you're wrong, Harry.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Keep away, Soud.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
It's a matter. Are you afraid of me?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
No? No, I'm all over being afraid.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I was just setting fix me up. That's all. We
could have made him pay a fortune to keep it quiet.
Don't you see? I was only doing it for you.
What are we stopping for?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
This is where you get out?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Get out. You're gonna leave me here? What'll I do it?
There's nothing Where'll I go?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
The roads are many, the world is wide. Get out, Harry.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
You can't leave me here. I'm your wife. Take me
with you. You've got to.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
It's a matter of self preservation, Honey. Sooner or later
you'd be the death of me. Hi, don't leave me.
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Good show, George, Thank you very much. Harlow. You know
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