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May 6, 2025 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
The spence, the thrill of the nighttime, the hushed voice

(00:39):
and the prowling step, the stir nerves of the ticking
of the fuck, the rescue that might be too late,
the crime that is almost committed, Mystery and intrigue and
dangerous adventures. We invite you to enjoy stories that keep
you in the spence. Can a man stake his life

(01:05):
against twenty five thousand dollars? Can another and cleverer man
track him down like a hunter stalking his prey and
kill him within five hours? Can you make a bet
with death and win?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Or suspense? Tonight we present Will You Make a Bet
with Death? By John Dixon.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Carr Oney Island.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
On a summer day. There's the beach right colored with
bathing suit. There's the boardwalk, all straw hats and summer dressing.
There's the fairs wheel and the roller coasters. There is
all humanity eating hot dogs and having a good time.
And over there, beyond that souvenir shop, there's a haunted mell.

(01:58):
I did him do a little boat? You gold to
a narrow tunnel into the dark while witch's scream then,
but that fools nobody got it. There couldn't be any
real error. Good there while the bands are playing, and
the cloud goes by and lay head.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Hey, you make that truck on invites me to see
you stand there and miss this. Only ten tents, one time,
the ten part of a dollar to go pull the
old handed meals and get the thrill of your life.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
No one's take this.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
You ask me one ticket?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
SA Did you say one ticket?

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Lady?

Speaker 5 (02:35):
That's right, one ticket.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
What's the thrill? A big one, lady?

Speaker 5 (02:38):
I said, what's the thrill?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Lady?

Speaker 4 (02:40):
The girls will come here with their boyfriend.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Don't have to ask that.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Ten t leaves that play in land the gate just
right up, Ladies and gentlemen, get your ticket for the
old holded meal where ghosts will walk and pause to
give me the tickets a minute, young call, I know
you want to get into the old holder meal for
the plenty of time.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
I'm gonna tickets, I don't know. Give me ten ten take?
Do you hear that?

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Ladies and gentlemen, here's the unpella who like hell hoarded
mis DomU he fine, ten take it.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Don't call everybody for chation. Listen, I've got a better idea.
Whatever boat comes after mine, Yeah, I'll give you an
extra dollar to send that boat for empty. A man
of the cop I ate after you. Oh no, no, no, no,
it's something like that when you do it to Collo. Okay,
go ahead. Isn't there an empty boat here?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Well?

Speaker 5 (03:29):
Really, you've got such a great objection to riding in
the same boat with me.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
I'm sorry. I didn't mean that at all. Don't misunderstand.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
Then you better get in if you want to go.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
This boat's starting and moved. Yeah, I better so now
you've certainly head look here.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
I I want to apologize quite unnecessary. This place is
rather childish anyway, isn't it Yes?

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Isn't it flat?

Speaker 5 (03:53):
I've seen everything else, so I may as well see this.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Here we go in the dark.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
Was that of one of the ghosts, I imagine from
a machine.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
It sounded like him laughing. There isn't anybody on the
boat behind this.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
I can't see.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
It's pitch dark. Listen, miss, uh uh, miss.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
My name is.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
Andrews, Betty Andrews. If it's customary to exchange names in sis.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Mine's Pendrels, Bob Pendril. Did you say Pendrel? Yes? Do
you know it? Oh?

Speaker 5 (04:24):
No, no, not exactly it's an unusual name.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
That's all.

Speaker 6 (04:28):
I don't want you to think I'm out of my mind,
though I very nearly am. But I've got five hours
to go, just five hours. At the end of that time,
either I'll have won twenty five thousand dollars or or else,
or else, or else I'll be dead.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
You know. I wish i'd kept you away from this boat.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Well, there's nothing to get along about for you. I
can't tell you much, but I had to tell somebody
that or I'd have started yelling. There's just one other things?
Is this? In these places, they've usually got a little
dimlighted rooms along the way.

Speaker 6 (05:02):
Yes exist, Yes, Well, when we come to one, I'm
going to get out.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Of this boat and hiding there. Just don't get alarmed,
and don't tell anybody when you go out. Why should
you do that? I think I see a light ahead.
There is a light, but Jim too, that's all. Look
be good, it's yes, we're coming around the corner.

Speaker 6 (05:22):
Look, I'm going to have company when I get off,
a wacked dead man on a pile of straw.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
I hope I can stand these noises. Goodbye, Betty Andrews.
I wish we'd met a different time.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Mind the boat here?

Speaker 2 (05:36):
What are you doing getting up to? Don't be an idiot?
What's the idea you need?

Speaker 5 (05:40):
Looking after mister Pendril? And if we must hide it,
I suppose this is as good a place as any.
I won't have it quick quick, there'll be more boats alone.
Hope behind that dead man on the straw, he'll hide
a hurry now, mister Pendril, And the clearest place I
ever get into. Please tell me what this is all about.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
I can't tell you else.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
If you don't tell somebody who go crazy.

Speaker 6 (06:02):
Maybe you're right. It's against the strict terms of the bet.
But this is the last day, and I tell you
I can't hold on me. I wonder, I wonder if
you ever heard of my stepfather, John Destrie. Yes, I
imagine everybody has. He's a millionaire and I'm not. I'm

(06:28):
just a chemist, an analytical chemist, not very successful. Who
if I'd had time, if I'd had money, I might
have worked out a process that would.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Have well, I think it would have held him the war.
But he's got money, Yes, he's got money.

Speaker 6 (06:43):
Well, my mother died years ago. This Destry is a big,
white haired, fine looking fellow, you think, but it wouldn't
melt me his mouth. He's got an apartment of the
sixties secretary. I never met her, ballot court, that kind
of thing. Well he was doing, bite me there.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
I wouldn't go. Then he got hold of a book.

Speaker 6 (07:03):
I had to have a German work on chemicals, so
I went after dinner in that study of his over
the brandy.

Speaker 7 (07:29):
Oh my, dear Robert, you're quite welcome to the book,
don't mention it.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Oh well, what do you think of this brandy? By
the way, it's excellent thing. Yes, yes, I thought you'd
like it.

Speaker 7 (07:40):
And now that we're all relaxed, comfortable after dinner, tell
me something.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yes, mister Dastriy, you hate me, don't you. Frankly, I
do always have good good.

Speaker 7 (07:54):
Then you'll be relieved to hear I've always felt the
same about you.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
But tell me something else. Did you ever know me
to break my word?

Speaker 1 (08:03):
No?

Speaker 2 (08:03):
I never did. I'll give you that.

Speaker 7 (08:05):
I asked you, Robert, because I want to make a
little bit with you. That is, if you have the nerve,
which I doubt were.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
I'm afraid I can't afford to make that, sir.

Speaker 7 (08:17):
You were always careless with money, Robert, Well, I've been thrifty.
I saw that when your mother was alive. But you
can afford to make this bet. Look here in my
death well, twenty five thousand dollars, Robin, twenty five thousand
dollars in five one hundred dollar bill.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
And what would I have to bet against that? Your life?
My life? There's the money in the drawer, Look at it.
What wouldn't you give for that money? What wouldn't you
give to have it?

Speaker 7 (08:51):
For this precious work of yours that you're so fond
of and that you've failed in miserably so far?

Speaker 2 (08:59):
I fail.

Speaker 7 (08:59):
Yes, Oh, I've had a fairly good life as lives go.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
My heart isn't as good as it might be.

Speaker 7 (09:05):
But doctor say, I'll last a little while yet. But
before I go, there's one pleasure, one little exquisite thrill
for me to experience.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
I want to commit a murder, Yes, I said a murder.

Speaker 7 (09:24):
My bet is that I can kill you within six months,
and that you can't stop me, and that I'll never
be punished for it.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
What do you say, yes or no? I believe you
mean that. Of course I mean it. And just how
would you propose to kill me. Ah, that would be telling.
You know, if I had time to think this thing over.

Speaker 7 (09:52):
There's no thinking it over now, Yes or no? Yes,
you must need the money badly, Robert.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
I do need it. But oddly enough, mister Dustrie, that
isn't why I'm doing this.

Speaker 6 (10:08):
No, No, I want to show you you can't play
the Lord Almighty and get away with it.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Are you challenging me? Yes, you don't think I can
do it. I know you can't. You mustn't get excited, Robert.
There will be conditions to the bet. You understand what conditions.

Speaker 7 (10:25):
First of all, you'll never mention this matter to anyone,
all right, that seems fair enough. You'll remain within the
city limits of New York for six months. You'll spend
at least one hour of every day walking the open
streets alone, all right. You'll spend at least one hour
every evening in your own room alone.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
I may come to see you, or I may not
try to scare me. Already, are you? Finally you'll write
out a little note and give it to me. There's
on the desk in front of them. Write it now.
Let's hear what I have to write before I do
anything like that. You will write I am a failure.

(11:08):
You can't stop harping on that, can you. I am
a failure and this was the only way out. I
wouldn't have done it otherwise. A suicide note. Yes, I
intend to use it when I operate, and if I
won't write it, then there's no bed. All right, I'll

(11:29):
do it. It's now. Let's see nine o'clock on the
night of January the tenth. If you're alive and not
in a madhouse.

Speaker 7 (11:38):
Does that go into the bargain too, Yes, at nine
o'clock on the night of June tenth, given those conditions,
you will receive twenty five thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Can't you hear the dice rattle? Robbers? You're playing with
death now, I know it. Aren't you going to finish
your brandy? No? Thank you?

Speaker 7 (12:02):
Then pour it back into the decantor you heard me,
pour it back into the decantor if you were as
careful as I.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Am, you were, you wouldn't be where you are now.
That's right. Always be thrifty, I.

Speaker 7 (12:22):
Can promise you, by the way, but you'll always be
perfectly safe as long as you're in this pond. But
that's the only concession I meet. I noticed your hands
are steady at the moment. I wonder what they'll be
like a month from now.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
So you were fool enough to make a bed with
John Destric.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Listen, Betty, I want to tell you what else happened.
The same night, I got on a Fifth Avenue bus
and started to look through that book that Destric gave me.
It was a book that I wanted about poisons. Well,
just as I opened it, I felt something sharp prick
my fingers. I looked down and my hands were covered
with blood. He had sewn safety razor blades in a

(13:25):
line down the inside into the cover.

Speaker 5 (13:26):
Oh no ye.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
A little white card fell out of the book and
I read it. It said, see how easy it is
to take you off guard. Those razor blades aren't poisoned,
but they might have been. Take warning, Betty. That was
six months ago, six months less five hours of careful,
refined torture. And now I've got only five hours to go.

Speaker 5 (13:52):
What's it done in the meantime?

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Nothing? Nothing.

Speaker 5 (13:55):
I don't understand nothing at all.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
That's the cleverness of it. He's left me waiting, waiting,
expecting something, expecting it every hour of the day or night.
Once at the laboratory where I work, I opened a
box that I thought was for chemical supply house, and
the Mexican tarantula, one of those furry spiders about as
big as your ran out across my head. It was

(14:17):
a toy tarantula. He enclosed a card, asking whether I
didn't admire it. This can't go on. I used to
think I didn't have a nerve in my body. I
could hold a test throom with arm's length absolutely steady
for minutes at a time. Now I'll look at me,
don't But the waiting's almost over. Now, walking the streets,
wondering who's behind you, sitting alone at night, listening for

(14:40):
every step on the stair. He's got very little time
left now, but he's got to do something. The question
is what's he going to do?

Speaker 5 (14:49):
Well, maybe he doesn't mean it. Maybe maybe he's only
doing it to scare.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
You and lose all that money. You don't know, my stepfather. Listen,
I don't hear anything. It's just there's no sound of
running water. The boats have stopped. Then we're all by
ourselves in here or with him? Yes, Oh lord, how

(15:16):
I wish I hadn't gotten you into this. Oh I'm
all right, or at least I think i am.

Speaker 6 (15:23):
I thought I saw him in the crowd outside, but
I couldn't be sure. I'm seeing him everywhere.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
About just a minute, Just tell me one more thing.
Did you ever see mister Destri, I mean face to face?

Speaker 2 (15:34):
After that first night? Many times he came to see you.
He came to my laboratory once, yes, but mostly I
went to see him. And why because it was the
only place in the world I can feel safe.

Speaker 5 (15:45):
He's promised that nothing should happen to me while you
were in his apartment.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Don't you see? It was part of a torture.

Speaker 6 (15:50):
Night after night he'd invite me, and I'd go right
up until last night. Last night we were in that
study of his with the double masks on the walls.
He was sitting behind the big mahogany desk.

Speaker 7 (16:21):
My dear Robert, I'm pleased and even touched to have
you here on.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
The last night before you before you, Why don't you
say die and get it over with?

Speaker 7 (16:33):
Oh well, let's not say die. No, the clergy contends
that we never die, We only change. Now, let that
be a consolation for you. Must you be going so earlie,
there's that one hour at home rule to our bet.

Speaker 6 (16:48):
If you remember, I remember, if you're keeping to the room, yes,
and I mean to beat you with this was the
last thing I ever do, the last thing I ever do.

Speaker 7 (16:58):
That's an unfortunate choice, afraid, Robert, my boy, you haven't
a chance. Something's going to happen to you within the
next twenty four hours, when you least expected.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Will you answer me one question if I choose, Have
you decided how you mean to kill me? I decided
that six months ago.

Speaker 7 (17:21):
And you still think you can get away with it.
It's a method which has never been known to fail.
I give you my word of honor on that is it?

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Is it? Son? Years? And no? Wouldn't you like to
know how it is? Good night, mister Destrier. I think
I'm gonna believing.

Speaker 7 (17:43):
No, No, my dear boy, you mustn't go yet. Sit down,
Pour yourself a glass of brandy. No thanks, then perhaps
you wouldn't mind pouring me a little? My doctor allows brandy,
though I'm forbidden. Students, I I noticed your hands are shaking.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
It quite a good deal. They weren't like that six
months ago? Were there?

Speaker 1 (18:06):
No?

Speaker 2 (18:06):
No, you were full of confidence then.

Speaker 7 (18:10):
And it grieves me to see you waste tobacco by
lighting a cigarette and putting it out immediately.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
That's not youth lying for you. But I'm going to
pat it the same.

Speaker 7 (18:19):
You wouldn't like to back out now after what I've
been through, you'd still have your life. I'll keep it, thanks.
That's very unwise of you, Robert. Still you must decide.
I was expecting my secretary a little later to dictate
some letters, but now I think i'll leave for a

(18:40):
message that I've gone to bed and turn in myself tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
It is likely to prove an interesting day for both
of us.

Speaker 7 (18:48):
Here's your hat, here's your briefcase, and let me wish
you were fond, peaceful and happy.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Good night. That was last night, Betty. I saw I

(19:22):
had five hours to go.

Speaker 5 (19:23):
It's less than four hours now.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
If I can keep away from the old devil until
nine o'clock. Wish those boats would start running again? Why?

Speaker 5 (19:30):
Because it's almost just spooky and here's a real old Now.
I know you whack dummy on the store any minutes now.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
You don't expect you to see him move, so am I?

Speaker 6 (19:39):
I don't stand up it doesn't matter. If the boats
aren't running, we can hear anybody who comes along. Do
you think Destrie's got in?

Speaker 5 (19:46):
Bobbie can't have got in.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
He can't even be here. Why not? Because mister Dey
told me. Mister told you.

Speaker 5 (19:53):
I'm a sixth day.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
You know, Betty Andrews. I'm sorry it was you who
did this?

Speaker 5 (20:02):
Did what?

Speaker 2 (20:03):
You can't guess? Can you?

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (20:04):
Bob, I didn't come here to trap you, a spy
on you, if that's what you're thinking.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
I swear I didn't know you wantly got me to
tell you the whole story and lose my.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
Bet I haven't heard a single word you said.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Bob, please believe that he didn't send you here. Of course, no, no,
And of course you never saw me as apartment last night.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
I swear I didn't. I got there late, he gone
to bed. I didn't even take off my head or
gloves before I left. Again, don't you understand, Bob?

Speaker 2 (20:25):
I hate him too.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
I want to see you beat him.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
You've got to be him. You mean that? Look at
me and see if I mean it, Betty, I almost
believe you. You must believe me. Anything else.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
We got a hide. Find that dead man, hurry, I
supposed have started up again.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
I wish I could tell you, Betty what that means
to me.

Speaker 8 (20:48):
Come on, come on, hurry, Wait a minute, Jujo, but
stay just where you are.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Where's that boy's coming from? Long as tune I think,
But it's not Destrit's boy.

Speaker 5 (20:57):
A man standing up in the boat's coming around the corner.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
I can see him.

Speaker 8 (21:01):
Olded me, Why golly, if this ain't some place to
make a pinch? I never heard of one.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
What do you mean make a pinch? That's what I said.

Speaker 8 (21:11):
Your name Robert Fenroll?

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yes, who are you? And what do you want?

Speaker 8 (21:15):
But they said quarters you would have come along with me.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
I want to see you over in New York about what.

Speaker 8 (21:21):
I wouldn't know righty, but it might be about the
murder of John Destrict.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Did you see the murder of John Destric?

Speaker 8 (21:30):
That's right, somebody poisoned him last night with make your sign.
I wouldn't have got you in armor, maybe if the
bark are outside there, hadn't thought the cops were after
you to start with.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
He's done, he's beaten me. He hasn't, Oh yes he has.
And I know now the weapon Destry was going to
use in killing me. It never fails the electric chair.
You mustn't talk like that, don't you see? He never
once intended to kill me in the way I thought.

(22:02):
Are you going grandly, mister Pendril.

Speaker 6 (22:05):
He's poisoned himself, but he's left evidence to show I
did it. He's killing me the worst way possible. He's
won the better. The money doesn't matter now. If I'm
in the death hust for murder, what use have I
got for all the money in the world.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Mister Penda.

Speaker 8 (22:40):
Let me introduce myself. My name's Mullen, Inspector Mullen.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
It's a pleasure to meet you, Inspector. It's a pleasure
to be safe again.

Speaker 8 (22:48):
I've had you brought here to my office for a
little quiet talk. You're in a jam son, and I
want you to realize how bad it is. You think
I don't realize it. I'm deestry with, poisoned with mercury
sygh and I sit in the glass of brandy, and.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Only my fingerprints were on the glass besides his own,
I can guess.

Speaker 8 (23:05):
Mister Deastri's body was found this morning lying behind the
desk in the study. There was an empty glass with
traces of brandy and cyanide. We haven't had the full
autopsyy port, but the smell of that stuff is pretty distinctive.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Tell me, uh, you're a chemist, mister Penderul. That's right.

Speaker 8 (23:22):
The boys find that eight greens of mercury sign I
had a missing from your.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Elaboratory where he visited me a month ago.

Speaker 8 (23:28):
And then your briefcase which you took away from his
apartment last night.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
He handed it to me.

Speaker 8 (23:32):
I remember we found over one thousand dollars in cash.
I'll take a look at this note.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Never see it before. Look, yes I wrote it.

Speaker 8 (23:43):
You admit that, Yes, yes, yes, it says I was
a phaisure and this was the only way out. I
wouldn't have done it otherwise where did you find it?
Fallen up in little bits? You started to write a
confession and then you couldn't face the consequences. But you
shouldn't have left the piece behind. You're infanitte, my boy, unless.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Than less one.

Speaker 8 (24:05):
Now, if you'd like to confess here and now, and
maybe we did a little deal about the second degree murder.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Inspect your wife bothered to string me along? What do
you mean string you along? There's no second degree murder
on a poison charge. It's the death house and nothing
he thought of that. It's too bad you had to
go and kill him.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
Son.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Didn't you know he had an aneurysm? What fatal heart disease?
He said that he had heart trouble, but hard trouble.

Speaker 8 (24:31):
His doctor says he couldn't have lived eight or ten
months anyway, and you might have got something in the will.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
So that's why he did it kill himself. You still
stick to that crazy story. You told the boy he's
going to kill me, isn't he what three thousand bolts
of electricity?

Speaker 8 (24:48):
Inspector Mullins, what are you doing here, Sargeant? Didn't I
say I wasn't to be disturbed all the same, Inspector,
I thought i'd better do it. There's a young lady here,
I miss Betty Andrews. I think you'd better say it.
I'll say when I'm good a dreading, and I think
you'd better see her.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Inspector.

Speaker 8 (25:02):
We've just turned from mister Deastri's work. Well, he said
that that young fellow there, mister Pendro, and heerd twenty
five thousand bucks and mister Deastries know, well, did you
hear her?

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Son?

Speaker 8 (25:11):
Do you see what you'd have gotten if you hadn't
gone and killed him.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
He was keeping his promise. That's all a fine lot
of good it'll do me now.

Speaker 8 (25:19):
But look, Inspector, I've just took on a medical examiner
and he says there's no poison in mister Dastri's body.
Say that again, there's no poison in the old man's body.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Somebody's kidding you.

Speaker 8 (25:35):
An empty glass with the smell of mercury cyanide and
a dead man with a congested face behind the mask.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
What did kill him? Then? Well, you'd like to listen
to Miss Andrews, inspector. She's right here now.

Speaker 5 (25:46):
I think you'd better listen to, Inspector. I've been trying
to tell you all afternoon.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Go ahead, Miss Andrew. I've been over and over.

Speaker 5 (25:51):
It until I got the medical report. Nobody would listen.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Can you tell us what killed John Deastri? Yes, poison,
but the son has just been saying there was no poison.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
The body inspector William listen. I was at mister Destrie's
apartment late last night.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Well, so what you didn't kill him, did you?

Speaker 5 (26:07):
The servant said he'd gone to bed, so I looked
into the study to see if there were any instructions.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Was mister Dastrie dead then, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
I couldn't see his body because it was hidden behind
the desk. I didn't even learn he was dead until
late this afternoon. But I did see a full glass
of brandy.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
A full glass, did you change? Yes?

Speaker 5 (26:28):
So I picked up the glass and poured the brandy
back into the decanter.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
That's what he always made us do.

Speaker 5 (26:33):
And I didn't leave any fingerprints because I was still
wearing my gloves. And that was the same glass you
later found empty.

Speaker 8 (26:39):
But you still are not telling us what was the
poison that killed young Destrie.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
It was the poison in his own system. He worked
out this plot to convict Bob Pendril only just as
he stretched out his hand to drink the Sian eye pactor.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
I think I see it. It was his last great hour.
He couldn't resist such gloating as he'd never known before.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
That's his His heart wouldn't stand, and he fell dead
behind the desk. And I think if you study the
expression on his face, you'll find he died lasting.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
And so ends will you make a bet with death?
Tonight's story of suspense.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
The part of Bob Pendril was played by Michael fitz Morris.
Betty was played by Leslie Woods. John Vestri was played
by Nicholas Joy, and in supporting roles were Ted de Courtier.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
And Charles Lattery.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Again next Tuesday at nine thirty pm Eastern Wartime, a
story dedicated to the thrill of the night time. The
Hushed Voice, The Prowling Step, another adventure in suspense. William
Spear the producer, Mark Lowe director, in the absence of
John Diets and John Dixon car the author, our collaborators on.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
The same This is the Columbia Broadcasting System

Speaker 3 (28:27):
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