May 6, 2025 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My name is mary Anne Spitz and I'm fourteen years old.
My mother has a defense job, so I do the
marketing for our family. Every morning, mother says to me,
mary Anne, be sure you buy the most for the
least money. So lately I've been buying all the victory
food specials. These are marked with a red, white and
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blue basket sign with a big red V. The reason
I always look for this sign is well, you have
heard the old saying an army travels on its stomach.
I know Uncle Sam needs lots of food to feed
our fighting men.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
An army that's.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Going places has to have good things to eat. Now,
Steak fried rare with French with French fried potatoes is
my favorite meal. But I'd rather have a soldier eat
this dinner than eat it myself if it will get
this war over sooner. So if you have friends or
relatives and the armed forces, think twice before you buy
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the food day needs.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Look for the victory specials.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And help when the war fastens.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
The Columbia Network takes pleasure in bringing you suspense. Suspense
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Columbia's play theater of outstanding Thrillers, produced and directed by
William Spears and scored by Bernard Hermann. The notable melodramas
from fiction and stage and screen, from the world's great
literature of entertaining excitement is ented each week to bring
you to the edge of your chair, to keep you
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in suspense. Tonight's adventure in suspense is from the pen
of Dorothy Sayers. She called it the Cave of Ali Baba.
Like the tale told by Shiherazada, a distinguished ancestress, and
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the storytelling art Miss Sayers thriller deals with forty thieves
and with two magic words for your uneasy listening, then
suspense presents the Cave of Alibaba. On a Saturday afternoon
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in January, in the grim and narrow house in Lambeth,
sat eating kippers and reading the daily paper. He was
smallish and spare, with brown hair rather too regularly waved,
and a strong, brown pointed beard. His double breasted navy
blue south his socks, tie, and handkerchief were all scrupulously matched,
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and his brown boots just a trifle too highly polished.
He did not look a gentleman, not even a gentleman's gentleman.
Yet there was something about his appearance which suggested that
he was accustomed to the manner of life in good families,
A superior butler. Perhaps he had not old enough to
be retired, A footman who had come into a legacy. Yes,
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he had just finished eating, and he was sipping his
coffee when a slight noise at the front door caught
his ear. Swiftly, too swiftly for a quiet little man
sitting eating kippers and reading his paper on a Saturday afternoon.
He sprang up. He dashed through the small hallway when
he flung the door. Of course, nobod in sight. The
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society is at least dramatic in its delivery of its
correspondlous as if he knew what he could find. He
shut the door and turned to the hat stand in
the hall. An envelope had been placed there. It was
addressed to Joseph Rogers. So mister Rogers opened the note
number twenty one. An extraordinary general meeting will be held
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tonight at the house of number one at eleven thirty
You you will be absent at your peril. The word
is finality. Hmm, finality, yes, I think so. The man
called Joseph Rogers stood for a moment studying the note.
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Then he strode to the rear of the house to
a tall safe built in the wall. Carefully, he manipulated
a dial. He swung the safe door open. He stepped
inside into a small strong room. He opened a drawer
marked correspondence, placed the note inside, and then came out
again a moment to reset the lock for a new combination,
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and then he went back into the living room. He
reached for the telephone. He lifted it from the cradle,
and then reconsidered too dangerous. He hurried upstairs and clambered
into an attic in the furthest corner. He searched for
and found a knock hole in the woodwork. He pressed it.
A concealed trap door swung open, and he was in
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the loft of the adjoining house. He paused before three cages.
In each of them a carrier pigeon. Carefully, he wrote
a note, slipped it under a pigeon's wing.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
There you are, my.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Pretty there take it easily. There you go high straight
four thirty, another pigeont at five, and the third at six.
I should have my answer by nine thirtieth. League. Oh,
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I forgot one thing most important. Mister Rogers moved through
the trap door back into the attic of his own house,
and once again he stood before the tall safe built
in the wall. He opened the door, stepped into the
strong room, moved for a moment quietly in the dark,
and then spoke gently, Now, be good, my sweetheart, I'm
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depending on you. Open sesame, Come on now, thing open sesame,
open sesame.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
That's better, That's very much better. By nine thirty his
answer was back. All the little piece of paper said
was a hasty old kay that. A quarter before eleven,
he took his revolver from a locked drawer, inspected it carefully, yessed,
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loaded it with cartridges from an unbroken packet, and left
the house. He walked quickly, keeping well away from the wall,
and when he climbed on a bus, he sat next
to the conductor, where he could watch all who got
on and off. By twenty five minutes after eleven, he
was out on lonely Hampstead heath, pausing in the shadow
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of a large tree to adjust a black velvet mask
on which in white thread was stitched the number twenty one.
Then he stepped briskly to the door of the villa
that lay before him.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
And what is it?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Finality, Come in.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Go right on through Number one, will check you in.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Flight twenty one, sir, lift your mask, verry well twenty
one do we.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Go into the meeting room.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Thank you, sir. The room of the villa in which
mister Rogers now stood was a large, one brilliantly lighted room.
There's a gramophone in one corner, blaring out a jazz
tune to its rhythm. Couples, masked men and women were dancing.
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Some were in evening dress, some in tweeds and jumpers.
In another corner of the room was the bar. Mister
Rogers went up to it and asked the masked man
in charge for a double whiskey. He consumed it slowly,
leaning on the bar in filled. As this, someone moved
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across to the gramophone and stopped it. Mister Rogers looked
around number one. The massive gentleman an evening dress who
had checked him in appeared on the threshold. A tall
woman in black stood beside him. Her mask, embroidered with
a white numbered two, covered her hair and her face completely.
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Only her fine bearing, her white arms, and her dark
eyes shining through the eyepits, proclaimed her as a woman
of power of physical attraction. The masked dancers were silent.
Now as number one spoke.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Ladies and gentlemen, we are short two members tonight. I
need not inform you of the disastrous failure of our
plan for obtaining the plans of the court. Wendel sam Eliskoba,
our courageous and devoted friends, Number fifteen and number thirty.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Eight, we have a trade and take me by the police.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Some of you might fear that under examination these two
would break down and give away our society.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
There is no need for such a fear. I gave the.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Usual orders, and their tongues have been silenced.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Their depents will.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Be this greatly compensated in the usual manner. I call
upon number twelve and thirty four to undertake this agreeable task.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
They attend me at my office for their instructions. After
the meeting.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Were the numbers I have named kindly signified by raising
their hands that are able and willing to perform this duty.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, Please take your partners for
the next dance.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
The gramophone struck up again. Mister Rogers turned to a
girl near him in a red dress. She nodded, and
they slipped into the movement of a fox truck the
couple's gyrated side, and in silence, their shadows were flung
against the blinds as they turned and stepped to and fro.
The girl in red spoke to mister Rogers.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
What happened? I'm fighting, don't you please? If something awful
was about to happen.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
It does take one a bit short Number one's way
of doing things.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
But it's safer like that.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
No talking, praise, you know the rules. Sorry, In silence,
the dance continued, and then it came to an end,
And then when it had finished, the dancers came again
to when Number one sat and waited with tense, seakerdness
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for him to speak.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Ladies and gentlemen, you may wonder why this extraordinary meeting
has been caused.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
The reason is a serious one.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
The failure of our reasons attempt was no accident. The
police were not on the premises that night by accident.
We have a traitor amongst us. This last failure was
not the first.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You will remember the.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Unfortunate way in which the affair of the Dinglewood Burls
turned out, and there were others. However, I am happy
to say that our minds can now be easy. All
these travels have been traced to their origin. The offender
has been discovered and will be removed. The misguided member
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who introduced the trader to our ranks will be placed
in a position whereas lack of.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Caution will have no further ill effects.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
There's no cause for a lamb. Ladies and gentlemen, please
take your partners for the next dance Again.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
The gramophone took up its bizarre mon name. The mass
dancers glided in tournament, and the movements were sharpers. The
cutold the girl in red was claimed by a tall
man ask in the evening dress. Hand. Later on, mister
Roger's arm made him start. A small plump woman in
a green jumper slipped a cold hand into his. The
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dance went on. When it stopped, everyone stood detached, stiffened
in expectations. The endless interval was over. Number one raised
his voice.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Ladies and gentlemen, you will know the dout. Wish to
be relieved of the questions.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
On your mind.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I will name the person's involved number thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
No, I swell a last.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
You have failed in discretion.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
You're you're readout with if you have anything to say
in defense of your Polly I'll hear it later.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Sit down.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Number thirty seven sank down upon a chair. He pushed
his handkerchief under the mask to wipe his face. Two
tall men closed in upon him. The rest fell back.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Ladies and gentlemen. I will now name the traitor.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Stand forward, number twenty one.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Take off your mask, Number thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
This man was introduced to our society by you, under
the name of Joseph Brothers, formerly second footman in the
service of the Duke of.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Denver, dismissed for petty thievery.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Did you take steps to verify the statement?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I just God, my.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Witness, it was all straight. I heard him identified by
two of the servants.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I asked all over about him.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
The story was true.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
House where it was Number twenty one.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Your name has been given as Joseph Brothers. Is that
your real name?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Answer me?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Is that your real name?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
What is your name?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Peter Death bredon whimsy? In silence, I compliments your lord.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
We thought Lord Wendsey was dead.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
He was killed, so the paper said, two winters ago,
by shooting.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Big game in Africa. He even left a will prove
the five.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Hundred thousand pounds to his mother. I believe the Dowager
dutch Is.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Of Denver lor Peter Wemsey, indeed well known book collector,
man about town, distinguished criminologist, took an active part in
the solution of several famous mysteries.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Taking an active part, if you don't mind so.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
You deliberately led us to think you were dead and
became Joseph Rogers to gain entrance to our society.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
What has become of the real Joseph Rogers?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
He died abroad, I took his place.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
And the end of your impersonation to.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Uncover our society precisely.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
I see.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
The robbery of your own set upon which we congratulated
ourselves and which you had to execute, was arranged obviously.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
The robbery of the duchess your mother was arranged by you.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
It was. It was a very addly ya, a new
real loss to anybody with decent taste.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
The burglary of the Windsor mansion, the theft of the
necklace at Covent Garden. The other says, well, you arranged
them all me I spoke, by the way, dro may
not i'mos fifteenth twenty two thirty nine.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
You have watched the prisoner.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Has he made any attempt to communicate with anybody, and none.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
His death is and posits have been opened, his telephone
tapped in his movements followed. Even the water pipes in
his house have been under observation for morse code signals.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yourself absolutely, and we may be sure that he has
been alone in this adventure.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Well, ladies and gentlemen, please take your.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Very well, take the prisoner away, and be sure you
explained carefully to him first the manner of his death.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
I am sure he'll enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Wait, at least you can let me die decently. Take
him away.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Stop.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I have something to say, something to sell.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
We make no bargs but traitors.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
No. But listen, do you think I haven't thought of this.
I'm not a fool. I've left the letter thrown to
the police.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
If I don't return tomorrow, it'll be open.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
That's a glove, the President said, no letter. He's been
strictly watched from.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
M I left the letter before I came to Lambeth.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Then it can't contain no information of anything.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Nobody does the combination of my safe it did as
this mant safe in searched.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Yes, what did it contain? No information of importance? Sir,
an outline of our organization, the name of the house.
Nothing that can't be ordered and covered before money.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
And did you investigate the inner compartment of the safe?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Hear what he says?
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Did you He's trying to love There is no inner combine.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I hate to contradict you, but I'm really afraid you
must have overlooked it.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
And what did you say was in the compartment if
it does exist?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
The names of every member of the society, with their addresses,
photographs and finger Prinson or did you say that some
time forget this information by doing a little detective work
on my own. I've just been watched through the fingerprints
of my waters adorned the first page of the collection.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
That statement can be prold.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Certainly the name of number party, for example, if you.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Mentioned names here, you would certainly have no hope of mercy.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Bring the preseru to my office.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Ladies and gentlemen, take your partners for the next sense.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I proved that I know your gang from number one
through number twenty five? Do you want me to prove
that I know the others as well? My lord?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Your story first, maybe regret that you are not in
fact a member of our society.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
What courage and.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Industry are valuable in an association like ours? I fear
I cannot persuade you. No, I suppose not.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yes, ask the members candid to proceed to the subber room.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'll not conceal from you the seriousness
of the situation. The prisoner has recited to me twenty
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five names and addresses which we have thought to be
known except to their owners and to me. There has
been great carelessness. Fingerprints have been obtained. He showed me
some photographs of them. He tells me that the book
of names and the dressers is to be found in
the inner compartment of his safe, together with certain letters
and papers stolen from the houses of members, and several
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objects with fingerprints. I believe he tells the truth. He
offers the combination of the safe in exchange.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
For a quick death.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I think his offer should be accepted. What is your opinion,
ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
The combination is known already, fool.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
This man is Lord Peter Whimsey, a scientist of crime.
Do you think he will have forgotten to change the combination?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (19:42):
I think give him?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
You agreed, It's a bug Wednesday. What is the combination?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
The word of the combination is unreliability, and the anador
the in a compartment in anticipation with the visit of
the police. The inner door is open, good number.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Twelve and thirty six. You will go to the prisoner's house.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
And why should anyone?
Speaker 6 (20:05):
That's right?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I agree, nobody ought to be trusted.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
And what ladies and gentlemen do you suddress?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
You go yourself.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You're the only one that knows all the names. You
go yourself.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
I save on that motion?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Is the wish of the meeting?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Then that I should don't know.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
I say no, no, don't go.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Number one is our president, the hidden soul of our society.
If anything should happen to him, where should we be?
You've all blundered. We have your carelessness to thank for
all this. Do you think we should be safe for
five minutes? If you're not here to repair your follow Well.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
There's something in that, if you will pardon.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
My suggesting it.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
The lady appears to be in a position peculiarly favorable
for the reception of the President's confidences. The contents of
my modest volume will be no news to her. Why
should she not go herself because I say she must not.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
If it does the well of the meeting, I'll go.
Give me the key of the house.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Here is your hours watched? No, if I have not
returned in two hours, X for the best.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
To save yourselves and do what you like with the prisoner.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
The president has been going two hours straight auf what's
happened to him?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
How should I know? Perhaps he's looked after himself and
gone while the going was good.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
He'd never do that.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
What have you done with him? Speak?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Or I'll make you speak.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I can only form a guest, Madam. I'm afraid that
your president may quite inadvertently have left the door of
the inner compartment closed behind him, In which case, yes, well,
let me explain the mechanism of my safe. The inner
compartment has two doors. The ultimist most opens outward with
an ordinary key.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Who do you think that the president is so stupid
as to be caught in an obvious trap?
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Doubtedly he will have wedged open that inner.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Door, doubted in adam. But the sole purpose of that
inner door is to appear to be the only one
hidden Behind the hinge of that door is another the
sliding panel, also left open. Inside the compartment is the big,
heavy ledger containing all the information about this society. This
ledgerlies on a steel shelf. Do I make myself glious?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Yes? Yes, go on.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
The steel shelf is balanced on a concealed spring. When
the weight of the book the ledger is lifted, the
shelf rises almost imperceptibly, and in vising it makes an
electrical contact. Now let me draw a picture. Your president
steps into the inner compartment, sees the book, takes it
up anxiously to examine to see if it's the right one.
The shelf rises, the electrical contact is made, and the
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steel panel behind him slide into place.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
He strapped your dels, What is the word that opens
the inner door? Quick?
Speaker 5 (22:53):
The word?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Do you remember the story of Ali Baba and the
forty thieves? When I have this safe constructed, my mind
went back. Well, call me sentimental if you will, to
my childhood, the words that open the door are open.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
How long can a man live in this devil's trap
of yours? Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I should think he might hold out for a few hours,
if he didn't use up all the oxygen by hammering
and yelling. I imagine if you go there at once,
we'd be able to get him up. All right myself,
I think you better take me with you. Why well,
I'm the only person who can open the door.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
But you've given me the word.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yes, you have the word. But this door of mine,
I'm rather proud of it. You know. It's my own invention.
It's the lady's latest thing. It will open to the
words open sesame, all right, but to my voice only,
your voice. Don't jump your voice in my hands. What
do you mean your voice only? Don't clutch my throat
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like that. You'll wreck my voice and then the door
might not recognize. That's better. The door got stuck for
a week once when I had a cold.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
That's what he says.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
True.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Is it possible?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Perfectly possible, madam. If you'll have a microphone, arrangement could
be done also with light vibrations. We must let him go,
take the ropes off him, let him go nothing.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
He doesn't go to blab to the police. The president's
done in, that's all. And we'd all better make traps public,
can it's all our boys, right? Chuck this fellow down
a cellar, and firstly, mean, aren't going to destroy the
ledgers thirty two? You know where the switch is. Give
us a corner of an hour clear, then you can
blow the place to glory.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
So you can't leave once to die? Is your president,
your leader. I won't let it happen. I won't free
this man myself.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Here.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Let me let tell me think.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Think it's been right. In an hour or two, the
police may be here at any moment.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Police.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Oh yes, yes, you're right, So we mustn't imperil the
safety of all for just one man. He himself would
not wish it. Throw this man in the cellar, and
let's get out of.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Here while it's time.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Here.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
This is good enough.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Leave him here, all right, let's go.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Ju You chesty, you think I can. I say, there's
using down here in this cellar.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
You might at least see the lighthorn.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Don't worry about the dark they're taking you.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Here is the time too, so the.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Bomb that's gonna blow out this place, it's all said,
You won't have wrong to wait?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Who is it? Who's there? So I can cut the rope?
Who is if it isn't too My compliments, Nadam on
your loyalty is your present? Quick quick?
Speaker 6 (25:54):
I said, the time choose the house's mind following me
as fast as you can. Number one must be faived
and only.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
You can do it. But how did you manage to there?
Speaker 6 (26:03):
There's no time for questions. Get up and follow me.
You will release him.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
You promise, I promise, But I warn you, madam, that
this house is around it. When my safe third door closed,
it gave a signal to Scotland Yard. All the members
of the society had taken.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Never mind them sight quick, bet.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
You Inspector, get your fellows away quick. The house is
going up in Admitte.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
What will you?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Did you, Inspector Parker Man? You already h I'm a
bit winded.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
What's happened, Inspector? About half a dozen of them got
blown up?
Speaker 4 (26:52):
The rest we beg who's this for?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
One of the gangs?
Speaker 4 (26:56):
She's called number two?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Wait, but say it was Darlia.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I can't forgot the gentleman of the safe fuck where
your cars down alone? Send for want of the men
down to get his right Johnson, bring that pier here.
I've got the number one of the whole company, quietly
fixiating at home. I promised we'd get back and save him.
He's the bloat that we've been wanting the man at
the back of a Morrison case and the Hope Wilmington
case and hundreds of others. This is it quite a contraption. Yes,
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I only hope he hasn't upset the adjustment by something. Please,
I hope you haven't heard my voice. So all right,
I can only be conversational tomorrow. Thing show us your faces.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
Open sesame, open sesame, open, sesame, open sesame.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Let me see.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
No, he's not.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
He lives to stand his file, and so all's right
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with the world as it always is when Lord Peter
Whimsy is involved. The Cave of Ali Baba by Dorothy
Sayers is a story which gave us Tonight's suspense. Suspense
is produced by William Spear. Our guest director for this
evening was Robert Louis Shaham. Tonight's radio drama was written
by Peter Lyon and scored by Bernie Hermann. Romney Brent
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was Peter Wendsay, William Moulton played Number one, and Ira
Jerrold the lady in the case. Others in the cast
were Kathleen Cordell, Victor Beecroft, Roland Bottomley, J. W. Austin,
William Podmore, Ian Martin and William Moulton. Next Wednesday, suspense
will not be heard because of a special all star
Hollywood broadcast which Paramount Pictures will present two weeks from tonight.
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At this time, Columbia will bring you another selected story
from the world's great literature of thrills, Another study in suspense. Hmm.
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This is Barry Kroger and this is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
My name is mary Anne Spitz and I'm fourteen years old.
My mother has a defense job, so I do the
marketing for our family. Every morning, mother says to me,
mary Anne, be sure you buy the most for the
least money. So lately I've been buying all the victory
food specials. These are marked with a red, white and
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blue basket sign with a big red V. The reason
I always look for this sign is well, you have
heard the old saying an army travels on its stomach.
I know Uncle Sam needs lots of food to feed
our fighting men.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
An army that's.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Going places has to have good things to eat. Now,
Steak fried rare with French with French fried potatoes is
my favorite meal. But I'd rather have a soldier eat
this dinner than eat it myself if it will get
this war over sooner. So if you have friends or
relatives and the armed forces, think twice before you buy
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the food day needs.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Look for the victory specials.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And help when the war fastens.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
The Columbia Network takes pleasure in bringing you suspense. Suspense
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Columbia's play theater of outstanding Thrillers, produced and directed by
William Spears and scored by Bernard Hermann. The notable melodramas
from fiction and stage and screen, from the world's great
literature of entertaining excitement is ented each week to bring
you to the edge of your chair, to keep you
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in suspense. Tonight's adventure in suspense is from the pen
of Dorothy Sayers. She called it the Cave of Ali Baba.
Like the tale told by Shiherazada, a distinguished ancestress, and
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the storytelling art Miss Sayers thriller deals with forty thieves
and with two magic words for your uneasy listening, then
suspense presents the Cave of Alibaba. On a Saturday afternoon
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in January, in the grim and narrow house in Lambeth,
sat eating kippers and reading the daily paper. He was
smallish and spare, with brown hair rather too regularly waved,
and a strong, brown pointed beard. His double breasted navy
blue south his socks, tie, and handkerchief were all scrupulously matched,
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and his brown boots just a trifle too highly polished.
He did not look a gentleman, not even a gentleman's gentleman.
Yet there was something about his appearance which suggested that
he was accustomed to the manner of life in good families,
A superior butler. Perhaps he had not old enough to
be retired, A footman who had come into a legacy. Yes,
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he had just finished eating, and he was sipping his
coffee when a slight noise at the front door caught
his ear. Swiftly, too swiftly for a quiet little man
sitting eating kippers and reading his paper on a Saturday afternoon.
He sprang up. He dashed through the small hallway when
he flung the door. Of course, nobod in sight. The
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society is at least dramatic in its delivery of its
correspondlous as if he knew what he could find. He
shut the door and turned to the hat stand in
the hall. An envelope had been placed there. It was
addressed to Joseph Rogers. So mister Rogers opened the note
number twenty one. An extraordinary general meeting will be held
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tonight at the house of number one at eleven thirty
You you will be absent at your peril. The word
is finality. Hmm, finality, yes, I think so. The man
called Joseph Rogers stood for a moment studying the note.
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Then he strode to the rear of the house to
a tall safe built in the wall. Carefully, he manipulated
a dial. He swung the safe door open. He stepped
inside into a small strong room. He opened a drawer
marked correspondence, placed the note inside, and then came out
again a moment to reset the lock for a new combination,
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and then he went back into the living room. He
reached for the telephone. He lifted it from the cradle,
and then reconsidered too dangerous. He hurried upstairs and clambered
into an attic in the furthest corner. He searched for
and found a knock hole in the woodwork. He pressed it.
A concealed trap door swung open, and he was in
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the loft of the adjoining house. He paused before three cages.
In each of them a carrier pigeon. Carefully, he wrote
a note, slipped it under a pigeon's wing.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
There you are, my.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Pretty there take it easily. There you go high straight
four thirty, another pigeont at five, and the third at six.
I should have my answer by nine thirtieth. League. Oh,
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I forgot one thing most important. Mister Rogers moved through
the trap door back into the attic of his own house,
and once again he stood before the tall safe built
in the wall. He opened the door, stepped into the
strong room, moved for a moment quietly in the dark,
and then spoke gently, Now, be good, my sweetheart, I'm
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depending on you. Open sesame, Come on now, thing open sesame,
open sesame.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
That's better, That's very much better. By nine thirty his
answer was back. All the little piece of paper said
was a hasty old kay that. A quarter before eleven,
he took his revolver from a locked drawer, inspected it carefully, yessed,
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loaded it with cartridges from an unbroken packet, and left
the house. He walked quickly, keeping well away from the wall,
and when he climbed on a bus, he sat next
to the conductor, where he could watch all who got
on and off. By twenty five minutes after eleven, he
was out on lonely Hampstead heath, pausing in the shadow
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of a large tree to adjust a black velvet mask
on which in white thread was stitched the number twenty one.
Then he stepped briskly to the door of the villa
that lay before him.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
And what is it?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Finality, Come in.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Go right on through Number one, will check you in.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Flight twenty one, sir, lift your mask, verry well twenty
one do we.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Go into the meeting room.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Thank you, sir. The room of the villa in which
mister Rogers now stood was a large, one brilliantly lighted room.
There's a gramophone in one corner, blaring out a jazz
tune to its rhythm. Couples, masked men and women were dancing.
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Some were in evening dress, some in tweeds and jumpers.
In another corner of the room was the bar. Mister
Rogers went up to it and asked the masked man
in charge for a double whiskey. He consumed it slowly,
leaning on the bar in filled. As this, someone moved
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across to the gramophone and stopped it. Mister Rogers looked
around number one. The massive gentleman an evening dress who
had checked him in appeared on the threshold. A tall
woman in black stood beside him. Her mask, embroidered with
a white numbered two, covered her hair and her face completely.
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Only her fine bearing, her white arms, and her dark
eyes shining through the eyepits, proclaimed her as a woman
of power of physical attraction. The masked dancers were silent.
Now as number one spoke.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Ladies and gentlemen, we are short two members tonight. I
need not inform you of the disastrous failure of our
plan for obtaining the plans of the court. Wendel sam Eliskoba,
our courageous and devoted friends, Number fifteen and number thirty.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Eight, we have a trade and take me by the police.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Some of you might fear that under examination these two
would break down and give away our society.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
There is no need for such a fear. I gave the.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Usual orders, and their tongues have been silenced.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Their depents will.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Be this greatly compensated in the usual manner. I call
upon number twelve and thirty four to undertake this agreeable task.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
They attend me at my office for their instructions. After
the meeting.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Were the numbers I have named kindly signified by raising
their hands that are able and willing to perform this duty.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, Please take your partners for
the next dance.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
The gramophone struck up again. Mister Rogers turned to a
girl near him in a red dress. She nodded, and
they slipped into the movement of a fox truck the
couple's gyrated side, and in silence, their shadows were flung
against the blinds as they turned and stepped to and fro.
The girl in red spoke to mister Rogers.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
What happened? I'm fighting, don't you please? If something awful
was about to happen.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
It does take one a bit short Number one's way
of doing things.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
But it's safer like that.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
No talking, praise, you know the rules. Sorry, In silence,
the dance continued, and then it came to an end,
And then when it had finished, the dancers came again
to when Number one sat and waited with tense, seakerdness
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for him to speak.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Ladies and gentlemen, you may wonder why this extraordinary meeting
has been caused.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
The reason is a serious one.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
The failure of our reasons attempt was no accident. The
police were not on the premises that night by accident.
We have a traitor amongst us. This last failure was
not the first.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You will remember the.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Unfortunate way in which the affair of the Dinglewood Burls
turned out, and there were others. However, I am happy
to say that our minds can now be easy. All
these travels have been traced to their origin. The offender
has been discovered and will be removed. The misguided member
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who introduced the trader to our ranks will be placed
in a position whereas lack of.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Caution will have no further ill effects.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
There's no cause for a lamb. Ladies and gentlemen, please
take your partners for the next dance Again.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
The gramophone took up its bizarre mon name. The mass
dancers glided in tournament, and the movements were sharpers. The
cutold the girl in red was claimed by a tall
man ask in the evening dress. Hand. Later on, mister
Roger's arm made him start. A small plump woman in
a green jumper slipped a cold hand into his. The
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dance went on. When it stopped, everyone stood detached, stiffened
in expectations. The endless interval was over. Number one raised
his voice.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Ladies and gentlemen, you will know the dout. Wish to
be relieved of the questions.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
On your mind.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I will name the person's involved number thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
No, I swell a last.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
You have failed in discretion.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
You're you're readout with if you have anything to say
in defense of your Polly I'll hear it later.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Sit down.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Number thirty seven sank down upon a chair. He pushed
his handkerchief under the mask to wipe his face. Two
tall men closed in upon him. The rest fell back.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Ladies and gentlemen. I will now name the traitor.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Stand forward, number twenty one.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Take off your mask, Number thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
This man was introduced to our society by you, under
the name of Joseph Brothers, formerly second footman in the
service of the Duke of.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Denver, dismissed for petty thievery.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Did you take steps to verify the statement?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I just God, my.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Witness, it was all straight. I heard him identified by
two of the servants.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I asked all over about him.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
The story was true.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
House where it was Number twenty one.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Your name has been given as Joseph Brothers. Is that
your real name?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Answer me?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Is that your real name?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
What is your name?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Peter Death bredon whimsy? In silence, I compliments your lord.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
We thought Lord Wendsey was dead.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
He was killed, so the paper said, two winters ago,
by shooting.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Big game in Africa. He even left a will prove
the five.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Hundred thousand pounds to his mother. I believe the Dowager
dutch Is.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Of Denver lor Peter Wemsey, indeed well known book collector,
man about town, distinguished criminologist, took an active part in
the solution of several famous mysteries.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Taking an active part, if you don't mind so.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
You deliberately led us to think you were dead and
became Joseph Rogers to gain entrance to our society.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
What has become of the real Joseph Rogers?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
He died abroad, I took his place.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
And the end of your impersonation to.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Uncover our society precisely.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
I see.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
The robbery of your own set upon which we congratulated
ourselves and which you had to execute, was arranged obviously.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
The robbery of the duchess your mother was arranged by you.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
It was. It was a very addly ya, a new
real loss to anybody with decent taste.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
The burglary of the Windsor mansion, the theft of the
necklace at Covent Garden. The other says, well, you arranged
them all me I spoke, by the way, dro may
not i'mos fifteenth twenty two thirty nine.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
You have watched the prisoner.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Has he made any attempt to communicate with anybody, and none.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
His death is and posits have been opened, his telephone
tapped in his movements followed. Even the water pipes in
his house have been under observation for morse code signals.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yourself absolutely, and we may be sure that he has
been alone in this adventure.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Well, ladies and gentlemen, please take your.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Very well, take the prisoner away, and be sure you
explained carefully to him first the manner of his death.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
I am sure he'll enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Wait, at least you can let me die decently. Take
him away.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Stop.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I have something to say, something to sell.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
We make no bargs but traitors.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
No. But listen, do you think I haven't thought of this.
I'm not a fool. I've left the letter thrown to
the police.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
If I don't return tomorrow, it'll be open.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
That's a glove, the President said, no letter. He's been
strictly watched from.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
M I left the letter before I came to Lambeth.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Then it can't contain no information of anything.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Nobody does the combination of my safe it did as
this mant safe in searched.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Yes, what did it contain? No information of importance? Sir,
an outline of our organization, the name of the house.
Nothing that can't be ordered and covered before money.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
And did you investigate the inner compartment of the safe?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Hear what he says?
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Did you He's trying to love There is no inner combine.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I hate to contradict you, but I'm really afraid you
must have overlooked it.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
And what did you say was in the compartment if
it does exist?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
The names of every member of the society, with their addresses,
photographs and finger Prinson or did you say that some
time forget this information by doing a little detective work
on my own. I've just been watched through the fingerprints
of my waters adorned the first page of the collection.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
That statement can be prold.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Certainly the name of number party, for example, if you.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Mentioned names here, you would certainly have no hope of mercy.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Bring the preseru to my office.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Ladies and gentlemen, take your partners for the next sense.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I proved that I know your gang from number one
through number twenty five? Do you want me to prove
that I know the others as well? My lord?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Your story first, maybe regret that you are not in
fact a member of our society.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
What courage and.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Industry are valuable in an association like ours? I fear
I cannot persuade you. No, I suppose not.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yes, ask the members candid to proceed to the subber room.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'll not conceal from you the seriousness
of the situation. The prisoner has recited to me twenty
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five names and addresses which we have thought to be
known except to their owners and to me. There has
been great carelessness. Fingerprints have been obtained. He showed me
some photographs of them. He tells me that the book
of names and the dressers is to be found in
the inner compartment of his safe, together with certain letters
and papers stolen from the houses of members, and several
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objects with fingerprints. I believe he tells the truth. He
offers the combination of the safe in exchange.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
For a quick death.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I think his offer should be accepted. What is your opinion,
ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
The combination is known already, fool.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
This man is Lord Peter Whimsey, a scientist of crime.
Do you think he will have forgotten to change the combination?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (19:42):
I think give him?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
You agreed, It's a bug Wednesday. What is the combination?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
The word of the combination is unreliability, and the anador
the in a compartment in anticipation with the visit of
the police. The inner door is open, good number.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Twelve and thirty six. You will go to the prisoner's house.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
And why should anyone?
Speaker 6 (20:05):
That's right?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I agree, nobody ought to be trusted.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
And what ladies and gentlemen do you suddress?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
You go yourself.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You're the only one that knows all the names. You
go yourself.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
I save on that motion?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Is the wish of the meeting?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Then that I should don't know.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
I say no, no, don't go.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Number one is our president, the hidden soul of our society.
If anything should happen to him, where should we be?
You've all blundered. We have your carelessness to thank for
all this. Do you think we should be safe for
five minutes? If you're not here to repair your follow Well.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
There's something in that, if you will pardon.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
My suggesting it.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
The lady appears to be in a position peculiarly favorable
for the reception of the President's confidences. The contents of
my modest volume will be no news to her. Why
should she not go herself because I say she must not.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
If it does the well of the meeting, I'll go.
Give me the key of the house.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Here is your hours watched? No, if I have not
returned in two hours, X for the best.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
To save yourselves and do what you like with the prisoner.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
The president has been going two hours straight auf what's
happened to him?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
How should I know? Perhaps he's looked after himself and
gone while the going was good.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
He'd never do that.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
What have you done with him? Speak?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Or I'll make you speak.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I can only form a guest, Madam. I'm afraid that
your president may quite inadvertently have left the door of
the inner compartment closed behind him, In which case, yes, well,
let me explain the mechanism of my safe. The inner
compartment has two doors. The ultimist most opens outward with
an ordinary key.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Who do you think that the president is so stupid
as to be caught in an obvious trap?
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Doubtedly he will have wedged open that inner.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Door, doubted in adam. But the sole purpose of that
inner door is to appear to be the only one
hidden Behind the hinge of that door is another the
sliding panel, also left open. Inside the compartment is the big,
heavy ledger containing all the information about this society. This
ledgerlies on a steel shelf. Do I make myself glious?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Yes? Yes, go on.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
The steel shelf is balanced on a concealed spring. When
the weight of the book the ledger is lifted, the
shelf rises almost imperceptibly, and in vising it makes an
electrical contact. Now let me draw a picture. Your president
steps into the inner compartment, sees the book, takes it
up anxiously to examine to see if it's the right one.
The shelf rises, the electrical contact is made, and the
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steel panel behind him slide into place.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
He strapped your dels, What is the word that opens
the inner door? Quick?
Speaker 5 (22:53):
The word?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Do you remember the story of Ali Baba and the
forty thieves? When I have this safe constructed, my mind
went back. Well, call me sentimental if you will, to
my childhood, the words that open the door are open.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
How long can a man live in this devil's trap
of yours? Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I should think he might hold out for a few hours,
if he didn't use up all the oxygen by hammering
and yelling. I imagine if you go there at once,
we'd be able to get him up. All right myself,
I think you better take me with you. Why well,
I'm the only person who can open the door.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
But you've given me the word.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yes, you have the word. But this door of mine,
I'm rather proud of it. You know. It's my own invention.
It's the lady's latest thing. It will open to the
words open sesame, all right, but to my voice only,
your voice. Don't jump your voice in my hands. What
do you mean your voice only? Don't clutch my throat
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like that. You'll wreck my voice and then the door
might not recognize. That's better. The door got stuck for
a week once when I had a cold.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
That's what he says.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
True.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Is it possible?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Perfectly possible, madam. If you'll have a microphone, arrangement could
be done also with light vibrations. We must let him go,
take the ropes off him, let him go nothing.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
He doesn't go to blab to the police. The president's
done in, that's all. And we'd all better make traps public,
can it's all our boys, right? Chuck this fellow down
a cellar, and firstly, mean, aren't going to destroy the
ledgers thirty two? You know where the switch is. Give
us a corner of an hour clear, then you can
blow the place to glory.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
So you can't leave once to die? Is your president,
your leader. I won't let it happen. I won't free
this man myself.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Here.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Let me let tell me think.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Think it's been right. In an hour or two, the
police may be here at any moment.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Police.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Oh yes, yes, you're right, So we mustn't imperil the
safety of all for just one man. He himself would
not wish it. Throw this man in the cellar, and
let's get out of.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Here while it's time.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Here.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
This is good enough.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Leave him here, all right, let's go.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Ju You chesty, you think I can. I say, there's
using down here in this cellar.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
You might at least see the lighthorn.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Don't worry about the dark they're taking you.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Here is the time too, so the.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Bomb that's gonna blow out this place, it's all said,
You won't have wrong to wait?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Who is it? Who's there? So I can cut the rope?
Who is if it isn't too My compliments, Nadam on
your loyalty is your present? Quick quick?
Speaker 6 (25:54):
I said, the time choose the house's mind following me
as fast as you can. Number one must be faived
and only.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
You can do it. But how did you manage to there?
Speaker 6 (26:03):
There's no time for questions. Get up and follow me.
You will release him.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
You promise, I promise, But I warn you, madam, that
this house is around it. When my safe third door closed,
it gave a signal to Scotland Yard. All the members
of the society had taken.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Never mind them sight quick, bet.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
You Inspector, get your fellows away quick. The house is
going up in Admitte.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
What will you?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Did you, Inspector Parker Man? You already h I'm a
bit winded.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
What's happened, Inspector? About half a dozen of them got
blown up?
Speaker 4 (26:52):
The rest we beg who's this for?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
One of the gangs?
Speaker 4 (26:56):
She's called number two?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Wait, but say it was Darlia.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I can't forgot the gentleman of the safe fuck where
your cars down alone? Send for want of the men
down to get his right Johnson, bring that pier here.
I've got the number one of the whole company, quietly
fixiating at home. I promised we'd get back and save him.
He's the bloat that we've been wanting the man at
the back of a Morrison case and the Hope Wilmington
case and hundreds of others. This is it quite a contraption. Yes,
(27:34):
I only hope he hasn't upset the adjustment by something. Please,
I hope you haven't heard my voice. So all right,
I can only be conversational tomorrow. Thing show us your faces.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
Open sesame, open sesame, open, sesame, open sesame.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Let me see.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
No, he's not.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
He lives to stand his file, and so all's right
(28:39):
with the world as it always is when Lord Peter
Whimsy is involved. The Cave of Ali Baba by Dorothy
Sayers is a story which gave us Tonight's suspense. Suspense
is produced by William Spear. Our guest director for this
evening was Robert Louis Shaham. Tonight's radio drama was written
by Peter Lyon and scored by Bernie Hermann. Romney Brent
(29:02):
was Peter Wendsay, William Moulton played Number one, and Ira
Jerrold the lady in the case. Others in the cast
were Kathleen Cordell, Victor Beecroft, Roland Bottomley, J. W. Austin,
William Podmore, Ian Martin and William Moulton. Next Wednesday, suspense
will not be heard because of a special all star
Hollywood broadcast which Paramount Pictures will present two weeks from tonight.
(29:26):
At this time, Columbia will bring you another selected story
from the world's great literature of thrills, Another study in suspense. Hmm.
(30:25):
This is Barry Kroger and this is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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