November 10, 2025 • 29 mins
The Whistler was a suspenseful mystery anthology that ran from 1942-1955. A character known only as the Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate and had a suspenseful and eerie tone, always ending with a twist. The Whistler was later adapted to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And now stay tuned for the mystery program That is
unique among all mystery programs, because even when you know
who is guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at
the final curtain. In the Signal Oil Program, the Whistler
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hyne signal, the famous go Farther gasoline invite you to
sit back and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things. For
I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
in the hearts of men and women who have stepped
into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, The Whistler's strange
story A matter of odds.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It was a matter of odds from the beginning, because
that was the way Danny Atkins lived. By the odds,
a betting chance, but he played safe, carefully figured the
odds in Danny's own favor. It was that way right now.
In the dimly lit back street in Panama City, Danny
was carefully following a sailor named Keller, with whom Danny
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had had seven drinks before Keller left the Seven Sinners
Bar with a little too much alcohol aboard. Then two
blocks and an alley later, it happens up ahead, a
dark figure leaping forth, an exchange of blows, and then
Danny running forward.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I'll get him, okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Mister had gotta jump my pet.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I get him, Danny skipping. But I thought that, we
thought nothing here what.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
You take to see?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Now, look, sure, look, Keller, I suppose you didn't talk
too much back there in the seventh centers.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Of course you didn't go big shot, flashing that wad.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
Look, Danny, we just met.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
We just met, and I just save you three months pa.
Speaker 8 (02:49):
All right, So come on, I'll buy a drink here.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I'm a pal.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Yeah, okay, Keller, I'm your pal. You can just do that.
You can buy me a drink.
Speaker 9 (03:01):
Anywhere you say pal, any place in Old Panama City.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Amusing, isn't it, Danny, The way you picked up with
Sailor Keller in the Seven Sinners, became friendly with him.
He showed you a picture he had taken in Tokyo,
and you even showed him an old snapshot of yourself
when you were a high school baseball star. And all
the while you were figuring the odds, weighing how much
bigger Keller was, how drunk, how much of a protest
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he'd put up verbally and physically. Someone else jumped in,
And now you emerge as a hero instead of a villain.
But as you enter another bar, the Blue Moon, you
tell yourself that it isn't over, not yet, the blue Moon.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Here's a good at places any even though somebody in here.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Hi, you're Francy.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Hey, Hey, take it easy, Keller. They'll toss us out
of here.
Speaker 10 (04:00):
What's your friends? Saylor?
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Danny boy? He's just Danny Boy, sweetheart.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Don't you go getting too well acquainted.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Don't worry.
Speaker 10 (04:10):
Wow steado, Hey, I'm not so sure I want to
sit at the same table with him.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Come on, he's my pal.
Speaker 8 (04:17):
Just save my neck.
Speaker 10 (04:18):
Okay, here we are sure.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
My pal quite an athlete too.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Show fancy that baseball picture of your Danny boy?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
He isn't interested.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
Go on, hey, waiter around the drinks for my friends there.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Joey, Hey, Joey got.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
A customer player, who's Joey?
Speaker 10 (04:37):
Tickets? Vander get ahead of the National Lottery. Not a
dog gonna be changed hands? Silling?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Oh sure, really, Brent I want to buy some tickets
for my friends.
Speaker 10 (04:46):
Saylor Keller.
Speaker 9 (04:47):
Oh, mister Keller, all right, how many, says I'll take
a fistful Joey, you fish look Keller.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Relax, Danny, I feel lucky.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Give me lots of trees, Joey, trees lucky for me.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Yeah, mister shrew about thirty three oh three?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (05:05):
Nice him for the lady too.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Yeah, my pal, Danny boy.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
No, never mind me. I'm no gambler.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
I thought you were always figuring the odds, Danny.
Speaker 10 (05:14):
Didn't we talk about that?
Speaker 8 (05:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I said, I figured the ad on people, Keller, people situations.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I don't make wild.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
You okay, okay, it's gonna be your loss.
Speaker 9 (05:25):
Skip him, Joey, but me give me a fistful of
those trees and waiter another round for us here for
fancy Joey and me and and my pal, my old pal,
Danny boy.
Speaker 10 (05:36):
I got a fuck.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Oh look, Keller, you're a sucker. The odds are against
you fifty thousand to one.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Okay, Danny boy.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
So what.
Speaker 11 (05:48):
So what see you in the morning at your hotel?
Anything you say, pal? My room's two fourteen. Right now,
I'm gonna stay anchored. For a while, me and little Francy.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh, I was wrong Keller one hundred thousand to one
odds and all against you all the way. Yes, bitter,
little old Danny boy is just bitter nightfall.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It's infuriating, isn't it, Danny watching Sailor Keller spend his
money so foolishly, money you'd hope for, money that might
have taken you back home to the States. But there's
very little you can do about it, is there? And
the next morning, on your way to Keller's hotel, you
look into the bar, wondering if he even made it
home last night. And then something hits you. A number
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marked on the mirror in the back of the bar,
number thirty three oh three, Keller's number, a winning ticket
in the week's lottery. Your mind spins, already starting to
figure the odds in still another direction. In his hotel room,
Keller is probably still sleeping off last night. A plus
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in your favor. Keller has a gun, and that's a
definite mind But you decide you must get that ticket.
Don you weigh the odds and decide your chances. You
walk up the flight of stairs to the second floor,
down the hall to two fourteen Keller's room. When you
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reach there, you're surprised to find his door half open.
You enter across.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Sailor, Sailor.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Sleeping like a baby. That's great. Yeah, the tickets.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
See wait a minute, miss winning tickets.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Gone, fancy Francie. She beat me here.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
That's why that door was open.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It has to be Francie, doesn't it, Danny. Yes, the
girl in the bar last night, the middle of the afternoon,
before you finally find out where she stays and stop
by her appartment.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Why do we tickets?
Speaker 10 (08:22):
What you're talking about?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Oh no, you wouldn't packing. Francie going somewhere.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Oh yeah, Oh sure, it's funny.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
You know I'm heading that way myself.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Yeah mhm, wow, wow, Look cute Francis.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
All this money?
Speaker 10 (08:47):
Okay, well all right, so I cash calls ticket. Look
we can split it. I took it from Calor sold
to my glass for thirty thous so I.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
See, thanks for cashing it for me, Francie, thirty thousand.
They'll take me quite a distance. You, Oh, poor ols Sailor.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
He wouldn't believe you.
Speaker 10 (09:01):
But yeah, don't mind the sailor. You'll sleep all day. Well,
look at it. Don't take it. I'll leave me some
of that money after all, I was, Yeah, who is.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
It, Taylor?
Speaker 7 (09:17):
What we do? If you don't help this star, I'll
blast the lot.
Speaker 10 (09:21):
He's got a gun.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I'm giving you exactly ten.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
When Milady gets spring fever out, she goes and buys
a new hat.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
To perk up her spirits.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Wouldn't you like to be able to perk up your
car spirits that easily?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
In spring?
Speaker 8 (09:51):
You can?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Friend, You can simply by treating your car to a
tank full of the famous go Farther gasoline signal. That is, ah,
you say, you thought mile age is the thing signal
gasoline is famous for. You are so right, But that's
only half the story. The other half is what makes
signal deliver such good mileage. Namely, signal helps your engine
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run so efficiently you save gasoline.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Well.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
When your engine runs that efficiently, naturally, you also notice
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things that make driving more fun. That's why signal says
performance and mileage are like birds of a feather.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
They go together.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
No need to choose between driving pleasure and economy. Get
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Speaker 8 (10:48):
Say, don't car, we'll go far, We'll go further gasoline.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, Danny, it was a frightening moment, wasn't it. Trapped
in that Panama City hotel room with a furious, armed
man on the opposite side of the door. The odds
were poor then, weren't there. But the window and the
fire escape gave you a way out. Once you've given
Keller the slip, you hurry to the airport, make airplane
reservations for Mexico City under your own name of Dan Atkins.
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Throw Sailor Keller off your trail. At midnight, you take
passage on a slow freighter for San Francisco, where you
arrived three days later. Once there, you relax, begin to
enjoy yourself. With Keller's money, you replenish your wardrobe, buy
a new sports model car, and start driving north. The
odds you always figure seemed definitely in your favor, don't they,
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With little chance of Keller finding you in your old
hometown of Tin City. When you arrived there, you pull
into the gas station.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Yes, the color up, Hello Jack, Oh, what do you know?
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Danny?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Atkins.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Hey, welcome home. You here to stay. Maybe nothing like
the old hometown, Denny.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
That's good to me, Jack. Nothing changed.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
The old gangs still around to most of them married
now though ready Bert Maryland. Yeah, just about all of them,
I guess, except Diane.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Remember her Ane Johnson.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
She was just a kid out of high school.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
My house. She's grown. Why don't you look her up?
You notice that new ranch house on the left as
you came into town, just passed the bridge.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Yeah, I did a lot of class.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
That was one old man built the place. Last summer
that mining property owned up there in the hills paid off.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
You kidding.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
It's like maybe it was a mistake for you to
leave town, Denny. I always wanted you to go into
business with him. M still play in the yards, Danny.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Yeah, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
And you're staying on here.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Oh right, not check they that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
After you leave Chuck, you register at the local hotel,
then cruise about town. Your old friends are glad to
see you, aren't they. Then yes, and you can tell
her impress your new car, the fine cut of your clothes.
You spend two or three days enjoying yourself. For you
and your all the queens, and then one afternoon you
drive to the large ranch house near the bridge, the
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Johnson Place.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Danny Atkins, Oh, mister Gensen, I'm glad to see you.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
I heard you come in.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Thank you you can fine, Danny.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Fine.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
What I've heard from the folks around town, you seem
to have done pretty.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Well for yourself.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I've heard the same about you, miss jon Oh, I've
been lucky again.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
I've been lucky too.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Oh.
Speaker 12 (14:03):
I know better than that, Danny. It's more than luck
with you. Good common horse sense, that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
You figure things out. Your dad was like that.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Oh, Diane, come here, honey. I haven't told her you
were in town.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Wanted to be a surprise. Wait till you see the
look over her face.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Who you stare at her, don't you?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Danny?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Unable to believe what you see? She has changed, hasn't she? Yes,
you'd hardly recognize her from the gangling schoolgirl in the
blue jeans and plaid church you new years ago. She's
really beautiful, isn't she. After you recover from the surprise,
the three of you settle down on the den for
a pleasant chat. You stay on for dinner through it
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all you find you can't keep your eyes off of Diane,
can you, Danny? And later the two of you go
for a walk along the quiet, tree lined street.
Speaker 13 (15:00):
It's wonderful having you back, An, It's good to be back.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
You know, I've missed all this, the old town friends.
Speaker 13 (15:07):
You haven't had much time to talk about them, ever,
your dad monopolizing the conversation.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I have you been boy again?
Speaker 13 (15:15):
I suppose you know what's on his mind. You still
want you to join us, Jenny. When he does ask,
you think it over carefully before giving her. Answer would
mean a lot to.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Him, and you don't m.
Speaker 13 (15:35):
To me too.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
It becomes quite clear to you in the days that follow,
the hours you spend with Diane that your friend Chuck
was right. Then, Yes, the schoolgirl crush she had on
you hasn't left, or has it? Only it's more than
that now. He's very much in love with you, isn't she.
And then early one evening, the two of you drive
down to San Francisco and have dinner at a fashionable hotel.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Having a good time.
Speaker 10 (16:16):
Diane, of course, but you still haven't told me what
this is all about. Always celebrating something.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yes, I am in your father's firm.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
If I wanted to be the one to tell you, darling,
so heavy.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
About I just don't know what to say.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
You could say yes, And I asked your.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Well, let's go out on the therey, darling.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
I think little Ian's going to burst into tears.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
It's all working out just the way you've planned it,
isn't it. And you're looking ahead, aren't you. The day
of mister Johnson's death, Diane will inherit his interest in
the company. She'll be your wife. You'll control it all.
Following morning, you accompany your future father in law into
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the hills to look over his newest project, the abandoned
crofton mine. You catalog each item in your mind, listen
to mister Johnson's suggestions, and then you have some of
your own to offer. Seems please, Then I.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Go along with those ideas?
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Are yours?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
One hundred?
Speaker 7 (17:38):
A lot of angles there I hadn't figured on.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Oh, mister Johnson, one more thing, not that double cable
running from the mine entrance here across the river to
the road on the other side.
Speaker 12 (17:48):
They're pretty worn out, rusty, aren't there. Well, I've already
taken care of that Danny, it's gonna have the boys
put in a couple of new cables. Why, Like I said,
they're all rusty.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
It won't hold on. I mean, why why use the
cables at all?
Speaker 12 (17:59):
How else we're gonna haul stuff we take out of
the mine here to the tracks crossed.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
We don't have to cross the river, missus Johnson.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
If we build a road from the main entrance to
the new highway a few miles down, trucks could drive
from the highway here to the mine on this side.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
We could load him on this side, forget about the river.
It costs a little money, wouldn't it. Yeah, But be
worth it in the long run considering your time.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Yeah, maybe it's worth that.
Speaker 12 (18:22):
Don't gone, Danny.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
That's what I mean.
Speaker 12 (18:24):
Something as simple as this staring me right in the
face and I don't see.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
It takes a little figuring, mister Johnson.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Plans for the reopening of the old crofton mine run
smoothly in the next few days, don't they. Danny, and
you find more and more time to spend with Diane.
Then one night something happens that you hadn't counted on.
You drop Diane off at her house after a date.
Walk back towards your car.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Hello, Danny boy teller, get in.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, your sailor friends.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
What eyes were you giving that I wouldn't find? Look? Uh,
how did you find it?
Speaker 14 (19:15):
A baseball picture you showed me in the barn? You
forgot it showed you in high school in the background
Trent City High or maybe you thought I was too
high to notice it.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Danny, I want my dough.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
All of it, carry it around with me doing it,
and we'll fall on.
Speaker 15 (19:32):
Down to the bank in the morning.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
And yet I don't have it. I've invested it.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
You know, I was afraid of that, Danny boy.
Speaker 14 (19:43):
I heard around town that you'd gone into some business
deal with a gent named Johnswer.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Okay, so get it back, get it, get it back.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
That's impossible right now, A few months. Maybe I can't
wait that long.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I'll give you a couple of days the dough or
or else.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Unless you'll plug me with that. How good is that? Oh?
Speaker 14 (20:06):
I wouldn't plug you, Danny, unless I had no then
what the hometown folks might be surprised to learn how
you got that dough? A little check You've been running
around with old man Johnson all your pals.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
It's your word against mine.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
So if you didn't comforter dough, where and how did
you get it? They might like to know.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Look, Feller, you'll get your money.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Sure, one way or another.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
But how do I know? You don't tell me? You're
good at laying odds. Suppose you figure that one out.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
There's a little sleep for you that night, Danny. Because
of Keller and the threat he holds over you. He
could ruin every you couldn't, and the odds are that
he will unless you stop him silencing. The dangerous step
to take, isn't it one you must think over carefully?
Way the fact the odds you've made up your mind
what to do when he calls you. Two nights later,
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you arranged to meet him on a quiet road just
outside of town. He's standing by his car waiting for
you when you walk by, right on.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Time, Danny, boy, that's fine. What's in the shoebox? Yeah?
I want to make sure I don't have a gun?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I'll decide that.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
No, No, God, all right, know, how about putting yours away?
Speaker 6 (21:43):
It's sure?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Why not? Okay, let's have the dough open the box.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
The moment he.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Slips his gun into his pocket. You open the shoe
box and your hand closes over the thirty eighth you
hidden inside. Kelly staggers forward as he's hit the brief struggle,
hands close around your throat full away. Then he falls
back and slumps to the ground. Stare at him for
a moment. Suddenly you're aware that a car is approaching.
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You dive into the ditch truck Danny loaded with townspeople
coming home from the barn dance at Fondale, and you
recognize the voice of your friend Chuck.
Speaker 15 (22:25):
Hey, Hey, that's been an action.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Yeah, old, let's have a look ask a while. Hey,
this guy's been shot, Chuck, he's dead. Yeah, you better
go for the police.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Jemmy her rest of us stay here?
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Wait, what's this in his hands?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Collar? Your hand goes to your collar. You realize for
the first time that in the struggle, Keller ripped the
good part of your shirt collar away, and if you're caught,
it will be easy to prove the torn collar in
Keller's hand came from your shirt. Odds against you have
mounted fast, haven't they. Danny. You decide you've got to
make a run for it. Nothing else you can do.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
And look somebody, maybe not?
Speaker 7 (23:09):
What can you guys called?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
They're not far behind as you approach the foothills, are they, Danny?
Then as you reach the river, you know you're trapped.
There's no way to get across. But then suddenly you remember, Yes,
the mine cables stretching across the river, not far downstream.
A few minutes later you reach them. What are the odds, now, Danny?
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The cables are eaten by rust, and it's a long
way across, isn't it a rushing river below? You make
it to the other side, you'll be safe. You stay here,
the chances are you'll be caught. You weigh the odds carefully,
don't you, Danny. It's a matter of timing. And even
if the cables do break and you fall into the river,
you're a good and you're certain you can make the
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other side. And then.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
I'll tell you how Suy came up this way?
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Alley isn't here, Get a good look at him? No,
it's too dark.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
You probably headed down the stream toward the bridge going
away across. Yeah, hey, but wait a minute, I just
happen to think of something. What about those cable lines
leading across the river? They're around here someplace, aren't they?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (24:23):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Would the guy be asapi fl hand over hand.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
Worn fifty yards? Huh?
Speaker 6 (24:28):
I get you right?
Speaker 7 (24:29):
He wouldn't try it?
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Come on, wouldn't I try it?
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Check?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Wouldn't I?
Speaker 15 (24:52):
Time to change? Time to change, Time to change.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
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Changing at signal stations where you see that sign outside.
Speaker 15 (25:52):
Time to change, Time to change, Time to change.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
A small group of townspeople shot by the news of
the tragedy had gathered at the river's edge, just below
the crofton mine. High above them, at the mine entrance
stood Sheriff Delsing and mister Johnson, surveying the scene in
stunned silence. Presently the two men approached the edge of
the cliff. The sheriff pointed toward the opposite shore.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Well, that's where Denni fell in the rocks.
Speaker 12 (26:29):
I just don't understand this at all, Kiera. I don't
understand why he was on those cables.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
There's lots of things I don't understand about this either.
One thing I'm.
Speaker 12 (26:39):
Pretty sure of, though, what's say, Well, according to where
he fell, he must have been about a third of
the way across when that first cable snapped.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
I guess he knew the other cable wouldn't hold his
weight very long either.
Speaker 12 (26:48):
He's too bad that second cable had broken a few
feet further in either direction, he'd have landed in the
river instead of on those rocks.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Probably be alive.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Now, Yeah, just see Danny then at cable you got
a quick decision to.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Make keep going or turn back. You know how Danny
was about decisions.
Speaker 12 (27:10):
Yeah, the odds always thinking about the odds. I guess
this time he took just a little too long to
figure them out.
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Speaker 2 (01:06):
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And now for the Signal Oil Company, The Whistler's strange
story A matter of odds.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It was a matter of odds from the beginning, because
that was the way Danny Atkins lived. By the odds,
a betting chance, but he played safe, carefully figured the
odds in Danny's own favor. It was that way right now.
In the dimly lit back street in Panama City, Danny
was carefully following a sailor named Keller, with whom Danny
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had had seven drinks before Keller left the Seven Sinners
Bar with a little too much alcohol aboard. Then two
blocks and an alley later, it happens up ahead, a
dark figure leaping forth, an exchange of blows, and then
Danny running forward.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I'll get him, okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Mister had gotta jump my pet.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I get him, Danny skipping. But I thought that, we
thought nothing here what.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
You take to see?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Now, look, sure, look, Keller, I suppose you didn't talk
too much back there in the seventh centers.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Of course you didn't go big shot, flashing that wad.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
Look, Danny, we just met.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
We just met, and I just save you three months pa.
Speaker 8 (02:49):
All right, So come on, I'll buy a drink here.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I'm a pal.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Yeah, okay, Keller, I'm your pal. You can just do that.
You can buy me a drink.
Speaker 9 (03:01):
Anywhere you say pal, any place in Old Panama City.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Amusing, isn't it, Danny, The way you picked up with
Sailor Keller in the Seven Sinners, became friendly with him.
He showed you a picture he had taken in Tokyo,
and you even showed him an old snapshot of yourself
when you were a high school baseball star. And all
the while you were figuring the odds, weighing how much
bigger Keller was, how drunk, how much of a protest
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he'd put up verbally and physically. Someone else jumped in,
And now you emerge as a hero instead of a villain.
But as you enter another bar, the Blue Moon, you
tell yourself that it isn't over, not yet, the blue Moon.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Here's a good at places any even though somebody in here.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Hi, you're Francy.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Hey, Hey, take it easy, Keller. They'll toss us out
of here.
Speaker 10 (04:00):
What's your friends? Saylor?
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Danny boy? He's just Danny Boy, sweetheart.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Don't you go getting too well acquainted.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Don't worry.
Speaker 10 (04:10):
Wow steado, Hey, I'm not so sure I want to
sit at the same table with him.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Come on, he's my pal.
Speaker 8 (04:17):
Just save my neck.
Speaker 10 (04:18):
Okay, here we are sure.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
My pal quite an athlete too.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Show fancy that baseball picture of your Danny boy?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
He isn't interested.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
Go on, hey, waiter around the drinks for my friends there.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Joey, Hey, Joey got.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
A customer player, who's Joey?
Speaker 10 (04:37):
Tickets? Vander get ahead of the National Lottery. Not a
dog gonna be changed hands? Silling?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Oh sure, really, Brent I want to buy some tickets
for my friends.
Speaker 10 (04:46):
Saylor Keller.
Speaker 9 (04:47):
Oh, mister Keller, all right, how many, says I'll take
a fistful Joey, you fish look Keller.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Relax, Danny, I feel lucky.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Give me lots of trees, Joey, trees lucky for me.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Yeah, mister shrew about thirty three oh three?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (05:05):
Nice him for the lady too.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Yeah, my pal, Danny boy.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
No, never mind me. I'm no gambler.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
I thought you were always figuring the odds, Danny.
Speaker 10 (05:14):
Didn't we talk about that?
Speaker 8 (05:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I said, I figured the ad on people, Keller, people situations.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I don't make wild.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
You okay, okay, it's gonna be your loss.
Speaker 9 (05:25):
Skip him, Joey, but me give me a fistful of
those trees and waiter another round for us here for
fancy Joey and me and and my pal, my old pal,
Danny boy.
Speaker 10 (05:36):
I got a fuck.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Oh look, Keller, you're a sucker. The odds are against
you fifty thousand to one.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Okay, Danny boy.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
So what.
Speaker 11 (05:48):
So what see you in the morning at your hotel?
Anything you say, pal? My room's two fourteen. Right now,
I'm gonna stay anchored. For a while, me and little Francy.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh, I was wrong Keller one hundred thousand to one
odds and all against you all the way. Yes, bitter,
little old Danny boy is just bitter nightfall.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It's infuriating, isn't it, Danny watching Sailor Keller spend his
money so foolishly, money you'd hope for, money that might
have taken you back home to the States. But there's
very little you can do about it, is there? And
the next morning, on your way to Keller's hotel, you
look into the bar, wondering if he even made it
home last night. And then something hits you. A number
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marked on the mirror in the back of the bar,
number thirty three oh three, Keller's number, a winning ticket
in the week's lottery. Your mind spins, already starting to
figure the odds in still another direction. In his hotel room,
Keller is probably still sleeping off last night. A plus
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in your favor. Keller has a gun, and that's a
definite mind But you decide you must get that ticket.
Don you weigh the odds and decide your chances. You
walk up the flight of stairs to the second floor,
down the hall to two fourteen Keller's room. When you
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reach there, you're surprised to find his door half open.
You enter across.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Sailor, Sailor.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Sleeping like a baby. That's great. Yeah, the tickets.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
See wait a minute, miss winning tickets.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Gone, fancy Francie. She beat me here.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
That's why that door was open.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It has to be Francie, doesn't it, Danny. Yes, the
girl in the bar last night, the middle of the afternoon,
before you finally find out where she stays and stop
by her appartment.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Why do we tickets?
Speaker 10 (08:22):
What you're talking about?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Oh no, you wouldn't packing. Francie going somewhere.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Oh yeah, Oh sure, it's funny.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
You know I'm heading that way myself.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Yeah mhm, wow, wow, Look cute Francis.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
All this money?
Speaker 10 (08:47):
Okay, well all right, so I cash calls ticket. Look
we can split it. I took it from Calor sold
to my glass for thirty thous so I.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
See, thanks for cashing it for me, Francie, thirty thousand.
They'll take me quite a distance. You, Oh, poor ols Sailor.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
He wouldn't believe you.
Speaker 10 (09:01):
But yeah, don't mind the sailor. You'll sleep all day. Well,
look at it. Don't take it. I'll leave me some
of that money after all, I was, Yeah, who is.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
It, Taylor?
Speaker 7 (09:17):
What we do? If you don't help this star, I'll
blast the lot.
Speaker 10 (09:21):
He's got a gun.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I'm giving you exactly ten.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
When Milady gets spring fever out, she goes and buys
a new hat.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
To perk up her spirits.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
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Speaker 6 (09:50):
In spring?
Speaker 8 (09:51):
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Speaker 8 (10:48):
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Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, Danny, it was a frightening moment, wasn't it. Trapped
in that Panama City hotel room with a furious, armed
man on the opposite side of the door. The odds
were poor then, weren't there. But the window and the
fire escape gave you a way out. Once you've given
Keller the slip, you hurry to the airport, make airplane
reservations for Mexico City under your own name of Dan Atkins.
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Throw Sailor Keller off your trail. At midnight, you take
passage on a slow freighter for San Francisco, where you
arrived three days later. Once there, you relax, begin to
enjoy yourself. With Keller's money, you replenish your wardrobe, buy
a new sports model car, and start driving north. The
odds you always figure seemed definitely in your favor, don't they,
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With little chance of Keller finding you in your old
hometown of Tin City. When you arrived there, you pull
into the gas station.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Yes, the color up, Hello Jack, Oh, what do you know?
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Danny?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Atkins.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Hey, welcome home. You here to stay. Maybe nothing like
the old hometown, Denny.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
That's good to me, Jack. Nothing changed.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
The old gangs still around to most of them married
now though ready Bert Maryland. Yeah, just about all of them,
I guess, except Diane.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Remember her Ane Johnson.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
She was just a kid out of high school.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
My house. She's grown. Why don't you look her up?
You notice that new ranch house on the left as
you came into town, just passed the bridge.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Yeah, I did a lot of class.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
That was one old man built the place. Last summer
that mining property owned up there in the hills paid off.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
You kidding.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
It's like maybe it was a mistake for you to
leave town, Denny. I always wanted you to go into
business with him. M still play in the yards, Danny.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Yeah, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
And you're staying on here.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Oh right, not check they that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
After you leave Chuck, you register at the local hotel,
then cruise about town. Your old friends are glad to
see you, aren't they. Then yes, and you can tell
her impress your new car, the fine cut of your clothes.
You spend two or three days enjoying yourself. For you
and your all the queens, and then one afternoon you
drive to the large ranch house near the bridge, the
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Johnson Place.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Danny Atkins, Oh, mister Gensen, I'm glad to see you.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
I heard you come in.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Thank you you can fine, Danny.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Fine.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
What I've heard from the folks around town, you seem
to have done pretty.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Well for yourself.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I've heard the same about you, miss jon Oh, I've
been lucky again.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
I've been lucky too.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Oh.
Speaker 12 (14:03):
I know better than that, Danny. It's more than luck
with you. Good common horse sense, that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
You figure things out. Your dad was like that.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Oh, Diane, come here, honey. I haven't told her you
were in town.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Wanted to be a surprise. Wait till you see the
look over her face.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Who you stare at her, don't you?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Danny?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Unable to believe what you see? She has changed, hasn't she? Yes,
you'd hardly recognize her from the gangling schoolgirl in the
blue jeans and plaid church you new years ago. She's
really beautiful, isn't she. After you recover from the surprise,
the three of you settle down on the den for
a pleasant chat. You stay on for dinner through it
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all you find you can't keep your eyes off of Diane,
can you, Danny? And later the two of you go
for a walk along the quiet, tree lined street.
Speaker 13 (15:00):
It's wonderful having you back, An, It's good to be back.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
You know, I've missed all this, the old town friends.
Speaker 13 (15:07):
You haven't had much time to talk about them, ever,
your dad monopolizing the conversation.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I have you been boy again?
Speaker 13 (15:15):
I suppose you know what's on his mind. You still
want you to join us, Jenny. When he does ask,
you think it over carefully before giving her. Answer would
mean a lot to.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Him, and you don't m.
Speaker 13 (15:35):
To me too.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
It becomes quite clear to you in the days that follow,
the hours you spend with Diane that your friend Chuck
was right. Then, Yes, the schoolgirl crush she had on
you hasn't left, or has it? Only it's more than
that now. He's very much in love with you, isn't she.
And then early one evening, the two of you drive
down to San Francisco and have dinner at a fashionable hotel.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Having a good time.
Speaker 10 (16:16):
Diane, of course, but you still haven't told me what
this is all about. Always celebrating something.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yes, I am in your father's firm.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
If I wanted to be the one to tell you, darling,
so heavy.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
About I just don't know what to say.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
You could say yes, And I asked your.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Well, let's go out on the therey, darling.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
I think little Ian's going to burst into tears.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
It's all working out just the way you've planned it,
isn't it. And you're looking ahead, aren't you. The day
of mister Johnson's death, Diane will inherit his interest in
the company. She'll be your wife. You'll control it all.
Following morning, you accompany your future father in law into
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the hills to look over his newest project, the abandoned
crofton mine. You catalog each item in your mind, listen
to mister Johnson's suggestions, and then you have some of
your own to offer. Seems please, Then I.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Go along with those ideas?
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Are yours?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
One hundred?
Speaker 7 (17:38):
A lot of angles there I hadn't figured on.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Oh, mister Johnson, one more thing, not that double cable
running from the mine entrance here across the river to
the road on the other side.
Speaker 12 (17:48):
They're pretty worn out, rusty, aren't there. Well, I've already
taken care of that Danny, it's gonna have the boys
put in a couple of new cables. Why, Like I said,
they're all rusty.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
It won't hold on. I mean, why why use the
cables at all?
Speaker 12 (17:59):
How else we're gonna haul stuff we take out of
the mine here to the tracks crossed.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
We don't have to cross the river, missus Johnson.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
If we build a road from the main entrance to
the new highway a few miles down, trucks could drive
from the highway here to the mine on this side.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
We could load him on this side, forget about the river.
It costs a little money, wouldn't it. Yeah, But be
worth it in the long run considering your time.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Yeah, maybe it's worth that.
Speaker 12 (18:22):
Don't gone, Danny.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
That's what I mean.
Speaker 12 (18:24):
Something as simple as this staring me right in the
face and I don't see.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
It takes a little figuring, mister Johnson.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Plans for the reopening of the old crofton mine run
smoothly in the next few days, don't they. Danny, and
you find more and more time to spend with Diane.
Then one night something happens that you hadn't counted on.
You drop Diane off at her house after a date.
Walk back towards your car.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Hello, Danny boy teller, get in.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, your sailor friends.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
What eyes were you giving that I wouldn't find? Look? Uh,
how did you find it?
Speaker 14 (19:15):
A baseball picture you showed me in the barn? You
forgot it showed you in high school in the background
Trent City High or maybe you thought I was too
high to notice it.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Danny, I want my dough.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
All of it, carry it around with me doing it,
and we'll fall on.
Speaker 15 (19:32):
Down to the bank in the morning.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
And yet I don't have it. I've invested it.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
You know, I was afraid of that, Danny boy.
Speaker 14 (19:43):
I heard around town that you'd gone into some business
deal with a gent named Johnswer.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Okay, so get it back, get it, get it back.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
That's impossible right now, A few months. Maybe I can't
wait that long.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I'll give you a couple of days the dough or
or else.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Unless you'll plug me with that. How good is that? Oh?
Speaker 14 (20:06):
I wouldn't plug you, Danny, unless I had no then
what the hometown folks might be surprised to learn how
you got that dough? A little check You've been running
around with old man Johnson all your pals.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
It's your word against mine.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
So if you didn't comforter dough, where and how did
you get it? They might like to know.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Look, Feller, you'll get your money.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Sure, one way or another.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
But how do I know? You don't tell me? You're
good at laying odds. Suppose you figure that one out.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
There's a little sleep for you that night, Danny. Because
of Keller and the threat he holds over you. He
could ruin every you couldn't, and the odds are that
he will unless you stop him silencing. The dangerous step
to take, isn't it one you must think over carefully?
Way the fact the odds you've made up your mind
what to do when he calls you. Two nights later,
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you arranged to meet him on a quiet road just
outside of town. He's standing by his car waiting for
you when you walk by, right on.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Time, Danny, boy, that's fine. What's in the shoebox? Yeah?
I want to make sure I don't have a gun?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I'll decide that.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
No, No, God, all right, know, how about putting yours away?
Speaker 6 (21:43):
It's sure?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Why not? Okay, let's have the dough open the box.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
The moment he.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Slips his gun into his pocket. You open the shoe
box and your hand closes over the thirty eighth you
hidden inside. Kelly staggers forward as he's hit the brief struggle,
hands close around your throat full away. Then he falls
back and slumps to the ground. Stare at him for
a moment. Suddenly you're aware that a car is approaching.
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You dive into the ditch truck Danny loaded with townspeople
coming home from the barn dance at Fondale, and you
recognize the voice of your friend Chuck.
Speaker 15 (22:25):
Hey, Hey, that's been an action.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Yeah, old, let's have a look ask a while. Hey,
this guy's been shot, Chuck, he's dead. Yeah, you better
go for the police.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Jemmy her rest of us stay here?
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Wait, what's this in his hands?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Collar? Your hand goes to your collar. You realize for
the first time that in the struggle, Keller ripped the
good part of your shirt collar away, and if you're caught,
it will be easy to prove the torn collar in
Keller's hand came from your shirt. Odds against you have
mounted fast, haven't they. Danny. You decide you've got to
make a run for it. Nothing else you can do.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
And look somebody, maybe not?
Speaker 7 (23:09):
What can you guys called?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
They're not far behind as you approach the foothills, are they, Danny?
Then as you reach the river, you know you're trapped.
There's no way to get across. But then suddenly you remember, Yes,
the mine cables stretching across the river, not far downstream.
A few minutes later you reach them. What are the odds, now, Danny?
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The cables are eaten by rust, and it's a long
way across, isn't it a rushing river below? You make
it to the other side, you'll be safe. You stay here,
the chances are you'll be caught. You weigh the odds carefully,
don't you, Danny. It's a matter of timing. And even
if the cables do break and you fall into the river,
you're a good and you're certain you can make the
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other side. And then.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
I'll tell you how Suy came up this way?
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Alley isn't here, Get a good look at him? No,
it's too dark.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
You probably headed down the stream toward the bridge going
away across. Yeah, hey, but wait a minute, I just
happen to think of something. What about those cable lines
leading across the river? They're around here someplace, aren't they?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (24:23):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Would the guy be asapi fl hand over hand.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
Worn fifty yards? Huh?
Speaker 6 (24:28):
I get you right?
Speaker 7 (24:29):
He wouldn't try it?
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Come on, wouldn't I try it?
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Check?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Wouldn't I?
Speaker 15 (24:52):
Time to change? Time to change, Time to change.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yes, it's time to change, says that sign outside signal stations.
Time to drain tired out old winter motor oil. Time
to refill with fresh, clean signal premium motor oils, the
new heavy duty signal oil that reduces engine where fifty percent.
Think what a fifty percent reduction in engine ware means
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Changing at signal stations where you see that sign outside.
Speaker 15 (25:52):
Time to change, Time to change, Time to change.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
A small group of townspeople shot by the news of
the tragedy had gathered at the river's edge, just below
the crofton mine. High above them, at the mine entrance
stood Sheriff Delsing and mister Johnson, surveying the scene in
stunned silence. Presently the two men approached the edge of
the cliff. The sheriff pointed toward the opposite shore.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Well, that's where Denni fell in the rocks.
Speaker 12 (26:29):
I just don't understand this at all, Kiera. I don't
understand why he was on those cables.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
There's lots of things I don't understand about this either.
One thing I'm.
Speaker 12 (26:39):
Pretty sure of, though, what's say, Well, according to where
he fell, he must have been about a third of
the way across when that first cable snapped.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
I guess he knew the other cable wouldn't hold his
weight very long either.
Speaker 12 (26:48):
He's too bad that second cable had broken a few
feet further in either direction, he'd have landed in the
river instead of on those rocks.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Probably be alive.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Now, Yeah, just see Danny then at cable you got
a quick decision to.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Make keep going or turn back. You know how Danny
was about decisions.
Speaker 12 (27:10):
Yeah, the odds always thinking about the odds. I guess
this time he took just a little too long to
figure them out.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
That that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil
program The Whistler each Sunday night at the same time
meantime Signal Oil Company and the friendly independent dealers who
help you go farther with signal gasoline.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Hope you'll remember.
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Bill Foreman is the Whistler, Lamont Johnson, G. G. Pearson,
Tom Tully, Bob Bruce, Bill Bouchet, and John Shay. The
Whistler was produced and directed by George w Allen, with
story by Adrian John Doe, music by Wilbur Hatch, and
was transmitted overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. The
Whistler was entirely fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance
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to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Remember to
tune in at the same time next Sunday when the
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H Hill.
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