September 21, 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 (00:02):
And now stay tuned for the program that has rated
tops in popularity for a longer period of time than
any other West Coast program in radio history, The Signal
Oil Program, the Whistler Signal, the famous Go Farther Gasoline.
(00:28):
Invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
For I walk by night.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of
men and women who.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Have stepped into the shadows.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare
not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, The Whistler's Strange Story,
A trip to Aunt Sarah's.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Carl Halliday was a desperate man all the while he
was driving from Summit to the northwest town of Kinsley.
He was haunted by the nagging realization that if Old J. S. Melton,
an associate of Karl's late uncle, refused to help him,
the Halliday lumber Mills would be no more. And seated
beside him a constant reminder of the impending defeat was
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his partner, Max Fenner, whom Carl had inherited along with
half interest in the mills from his uncle. Between the
two of them, they'd managed to bring the lumber mills
to the brink of oblivion, and only jce Melton's assistance
could save it now. Max remained in the car outside
while Carl Halliday pleaded his case with the elderly gentleman
(02:06):
whom Carl believed could save the mills. With a single word.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
You're being unreasonable, completely unreasonable.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I think the same of you.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
You suggest that I sell a valuable piece of land
in Mexico to save a lumber mill which your operations
have brought to the brink of ruin.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
The land in Mexico is half mind?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Jason, remember that my inheritance.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Yes, you're in a poor position to judge it's true worth,
but you can and do for your welfare. In my
own it'll be worth twice what we're being offered in
one year. Oh my name isn't Jason Milton?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
A year?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
A year will be too late to save your lumber mill.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Yes, I suppose, But I've tried to help you before,
offered advice that could have saved the mill, but you'd
never listen to me.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
You've always thought you had all the answers.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Your free advice isn't what I need.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
It's too late for advice now.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Anyway, if you hadn't been so cocky, you wouldn't be
in this shape now.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You want me to lose the mill, don't you?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Why should I want you to lose it.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
To prove a point that you're always right.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I've never said that.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
I'd say you and that partner of yours, Max Fenner,
didn't stand a chance of making the mill pay. So
now now it's all about to be born out every
prediction you've ever made.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I don't give it that much thought.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Oh yes you do, Yes, you do. When I go,
you'll sit here by this fire and chuckle. You want
people to fail so you can laugh it.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Out of here.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Oh no, no, not yet, not.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Till this is settled.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Just turning on the radio.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
That's all the radio.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
You will, Jesse, you will.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
We'll play it loud, huh, real loud.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
No, No, no, stay away from me, Carl.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Killing you're killing God.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
You didn't have to do that.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Shut up, Max, shut up and think you almost got me.
Tore the devil out of my arm with a letter
opener before I them.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Away I'm sorry you hurt, Carb, but murder, how do
you expaid? Shut up?
Speaker 7 (04:06):
But Jase out of the picture. I can raise money
on the land in Mexico and saved the mill. But
if someone saw it, nobody saw us. No one even
knows we drove down here tonight. But if they did,
if they ever fought, they don't, and they won't.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
That's all that's important now, Max. That and the simple
fact that the money I raised from that land will.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Keep us in business.
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Yes, it will do that.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Don't drive too fast, Calve.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
We must get back to Summit without being seen. Don't
stop or anything.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Oh, you worried too much.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Max.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
You're not nearly as calm as you would have, Max Fenner,
believe are you, Carl No, because you know your little
partner will. He'll take whatever strength he can from you,
so you must remain very strong, at least seemingly. There's
much on your mind, much ahead.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Of you to face.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You dismiss the deep jagged cut on your arm from
Jace Melton's letter over there. No one need know about that.
You're far more concerned with the questioning you'll get in
the matter of Jace's death. So many people can testify
to the many differences you've had between That's why you're
not at all surprised the next morning when Sheriff Avery
pays a visit to your office and is ushered in
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by your secretary.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Sheriff Avery, of course, Jenny, of course, your menff.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
Good morning, Carl, mind you, Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I'm surprised to see your way out here.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
Uh huh, Karl, I suppose you've heard about the murder
over in Kinsley.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Murdering Kinsley? When who uh.
Speaker 9 (05:40):
Jase Melton happened last night? He was alone in the house.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You mean someone broke in it was a robbery.
Speaker 9 (05:46):
Well, I don't know what there is they're advancing over
in Kinsley.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Me.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
I've got low ideas. Jace was a friend of yours,
wasn't he.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
He was a friend of my uncle's.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
He and I were associated only through business, Sheriff, and
very little of that. We owned some property together. Otherwise
I'd never trouble to see him.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
I don't suppose you've seen him since the two of
your quarreled a week ago.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Why, well, no, Jenny, Have I been to Kingsley since
last week? No?
Speaker 10 (06:12):
Not since a week ago.
Speaker 9 (06:13):
Fairs, just for the record, Carl, where were you last night?
Speaker 7 (06:17):
I was here in my office working, And just for
the record, Sheriff, I don't like your insinuation.
Speaker 9 (06:22):
I'm not insinuating anything. I'm merely asking questions. It's my job.
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Sure, you can't spec me to Halliday of a crime.
Speaker 9 (06:29):
Never mind, you realize, Carl, and under the circumstances, the
quawling and all that, if you had gone down there
last night.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I realized that, Sheriff. But I was here working.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
Can you prove that, Carl, if you have to wow?
Speaker 7 (06:43):
No, But could you prove I wasn't, or show anything
to indicate that I could have been anywhere near Melton's
place at the time of his death?
Speaker 9 (06:50):
No, I guess now. Oh, by the way, Carl, you
you haven't asked, But Jace Melton was killed with a
fireplace poker and it looks like he defended himself. Oh,
with a letter opener. The murderer is probably carrying a
last to cut on in some way. Well, thanks for
talking to me. Talk to you anytime, share Oh, I'll
(07:11):
be running along. Oh never mind, miss, I can find.
Speaker 10 (07:13):
My way as you wish.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Well, you were more annoyed than I was. Jenny, who
showed real faith in me. And thanks for remembering the
exact day I went down there.
Speaker 10 (07:26):
I'm paid to remember, mister.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Halliday, I suppose, but uh, I look at it differently, Jenny,
and I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (07:35):
I'm glad, particularly that you look at it differently.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
She says it oddly, doesn't she? Carl, and you reflect
that you've often thought she was an odd girl. But
you give Jenny little more thought in the days that follow,
because the murder in Kinsley gets little space in the newspapers.
In summit, your name isn't even mentioned, and you feel
for certain that you and Max Fenner are in the clear.
You are able to persuade the bank to advance you
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some money, that you'll have no trouble clearing the title
to the land once Jace Melton's will is probate. Even
the deep cut on your arm seems to be less painful.
And then, with all going quite nicely, you receive a
surprise in a conversation with Jenny one afternoon in your office.
Speaker 10 (08:24):
Oh yes, mister Halliday, I mentioned to you before that
my sister teaches school.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Well, I don't recall, but Jenny, I stood don't see why.
Speaker 10 (08:31):
I brought it up when you see. My sister visited
me the other evening, and I well, I helped her correct.
Speaker 11 (08:36):
Some school papers. She teaches the fifth grade, you know,
uh huh.
Speaker 10 (08:40):
Well, anyway, in helping her, I ran across very interesting
composition by a boy named Willie Sikes. It was called
a Trip to Antst. So, sir, h it seems that
last week Willie Sykes took the train up to the
big city all by himself. He was so excited by
it all that he sat up half the night.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
On the observation Jenny, I don't want to seem rude,
but with the work we have to do, I'm hardly
interested in the composition of a year that.
Speaker 11 (09:06):
You haven't heard what he wrote.
Speaker 10 (09:08):
You see the train on the way to the city.
It stopped at the Kinsley so so the train blocked
the main street crossing, and from the observation platform, Willie
Ssyke saw a man get out of his car stopped
at the crossing and wipe off his windsheet. He recognized
the man as his father's boss.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
His father's boss.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
Willy's father works here at the lumber mill. All right,
will I saw you get out of that car and
he says there was another man inside the car. He
took that trip to night.
Speaker 11 (09:38):
Jason Milton was killed.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Where's this composition, Jenny?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Whereason?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
I want to see it? Has anyone else seen what.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
The boy wrote?
Speaker 10 (09:45):
No, No, mister Halliday, H Carl, I'm the only one
that's seen it, and I put it away in a
very safe train.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
You can't see it.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You can't see the wear that's taking place inside your
car's engine, but you can see smoke in the exhaust,
which means engine wear is causing your car to consume
more and more oil until eventually it becomes an oil eater.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
You can't feel it.
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Speaker 2 (11:40):
It's a terrible moment, isn't it? Kyl with Jenny, your secretary,
describing a composition she corrected for her sister, who teaches school,
A composition by a ten year old boy describing a
trip to Aunt Sarah's, but a composition also proving that
you and Max Fenner were in Kinsley on the knight
Jase Melton was murdered.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
It's all.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
The sheriff would need to have a strong case against you,
especially since you lied to him about being there and
you listen in shocked terror. As Jenny continues, and well.
Speaker 11 (12:11):
That's that's all, mister Halliday. Chlorol.
Speaker 10 (12:16):
Naturally, I kept my sister from seeing the competition. She
marked it a n A on my recommendation.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
But but what happened to it?
Speaker 11 (12:23):
I uh kept it?
Speaker 9 (12:27):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (12:28):
I see.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Well, go on, Jenny, He'll be what do you want
for that competition?
Speaker 9 (12:37):
How much?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Nothing?
Speaker 10 (12:40):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Nothing?
Speaker 9 (12:43):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (12:44):
Really well, I I was hoping you would bring us
a little closer together, you see, I've I've always admired you,
mister Halliday.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Oh, I've always admired you, Jenny. You know you are
quite pretty? Quite pretty.
Speaker 11 (13:07):
Then then we shouldn't have any trouble, none at.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
All, No, none, Jenny, none whatsoever?
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Come here?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
And so in the days that follow you turn on
the charm. Don't you call evidence a great deal of
interest in Jenny? Anything to keep her quiet for the
time being, until you can think of some way to
silence her forever. In the meantime, you make plans for
Willy's father, don't you, Yes, And one morning he's ushered
into your office.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
You sent for me, mister Halliday, Yes, yes, Sikes down.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Oh morning, mister, good morning, Good morning, Sykes.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
You're familiar with the mill at the Pine.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
Or sure worked a couple of years before I come here.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
How'd you like to go back?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Go back to prime view?
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Well, snice up there as Foreman Orman need surprised sex well?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Uh? I sure, I am, mister Fanner.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
Uh don't know what to say.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Of course, it'll be moving your family out of Summit,
leaving a lot of friends here.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
Oh, don't worry about that none, mister Holliday, I won't
mind at all.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Good good, you'll start drawing a foremance paid the minute
you reach find.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
You well, Thanks like mister Halliday, mister.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
You're a good man. Sex does have the chance.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
I'll go home fellow you right now.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Thanks again, good luck. Well, that's that. I'm sure feel
a lot better when that sex kid gets out of
town satisfied with everything. Now, are you, Max?
Speaker 8 (14:46):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Aren't you?
Speaker 8 (14:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Now I still have Jenny, remember, yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Well, she's beginning to annoy me.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
I warn you, Max, I may do something about her too,
and I may do it soon.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
It's while you're returning from an inspection tour of the
mills a week later that you decide to stop at
Halliday Lodge high in the timber country above Summer. Once
used as a weekend retreat by your late uncle. The
place has been closed now for a number of years.
You dread the thought of returning to town and Jenny
so soon, don't you?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Car decide you.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Need more time alone to think things out. You park
your car on the road above the lot, and as
you start down the long flight of stone stairs, your
foot suddenly gives way up. The guard rail was the
only thing that saved you from falling? Car, Yes, saved
you from hurtling down the stairs. You kneel down, examine
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the stairs. The stone slab is loose, isn't it? Car
made you lose your balance?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
All those stairs are I would have been killed. I'll
I would have been killed.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
The idea hits you suddenly, doesn't it, Carl. You get
to work, scoop more dirt out from under the stone slab,
prop it in place with a few twigs. Then you
loosen the guard rail and the stage is set for murder.
You hurry back into town, and that evening proceeded the
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Jenny's apartment.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Oh hoo, car, Hello Jenny.
Speaker 10 (16:31):
I wasn't sure if you'd be back from the trip
in time for our das I hurried back, especially fortune Well,
I'm already I'll just get my hat and cold.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
The moment she steps out of the room, you decide
to try an old trick. You pull the window shade
down to with an inch of the bottom of the window,
then you slip the catch on the lock of the
apartment door. You hope it will work with Jenny and
lead you to the evidence she holds against you.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
Mister Golden calls from Seattle bought that shipman last week,
and or there were several letters.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
East Jimmy, We'll save all came here.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Oh God, well, enjoy ourselves.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
Alright, Uh shall we go?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
What are you thinking about, Jenny? You haven't said a
word in the last ten minutes.
Speaker 11 (17:27):
H Oh, I'm sorry, Carla, I I'm just thinking.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah. Do you have fun tonight?
Speaker 8 (17:33):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
You know I do?
Speaker 10 (17:34):
Oh, Carl, God, I've met so many wonderful, exciting peoples and.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
And there are a lot more I want you to meet, Jemmy,
new and interesting places to visit to us.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Well, here we.
Speaker 10 (17:50):
Are, Oh home already?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yeah, Sorry, the evening's over.
Speaker 11 (17:55):
Oh of course I am.
Speaker 10 (17:58):
But I'm a working girl. After one in the morning.
Speaker 11 (18:01):
Oh gotta get my asleep, you know. Oh, don't bother
getting out, Carl.
Speaker 10 (18:06):
Good night, Jenny, Good night, car see you in the morning.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
Sweet dreams.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
You drive away, park your car out of sight around
the corner, and hurry back to the window of Jenny's
ground floor apartment.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Crouched low.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You can see her standing in the middle of the
living room, a puzzled expression on her face. Your trick
is working, isn't it. She's noticed the door was unlocked.
Now she will suspect that someone was in her apartment
while she was gone, and she'll go right for Willie
Sykes's composition to see if it's safe. She turns toward
the window where you've drawn the shade, and then hurries
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to the chest of drawers at the far end.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Of the room.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
She opened the middle drawer, sifts through a number of items,
and finally, with a sigh, she withdraws the papers Willie's composition.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Kyle, thanks sweet huh. All I wanted to know was
where you kept that composition? Morning Jenny, morning Carr.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Okay, knock, don't ball me out. I know I'm might.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Oh, it's a fine time to show up at the office. Huh.
Speaker 11 (19:27):
I'll let you know on something. I would laid my bills.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Oh, by the way, Jenny, I meant to tell you
something last night. Oh yes, call up the mill.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Form in a Shelton find you in Harriston.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Will you tell them there's going to be a meeting
tonight at day o'clock at Holiday Lodge.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
It's a good idea, And uh, Jenny.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I think you'd better run up, run on up ahead
of the rest of us. Place has been close for
some time, you know, and probably need.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Some straightening out. And you'd know about that.
Speaker 11 (19:51):
I will do.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Yeah, he's sure you don't mind.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
Oh, of course not, Carl, I don't mind at all.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
It's late that afternoon, when Jenny leaves the office. You
stand by the window and wait. Presently you see her
drive back from her apartment, past the office and head
into the town. She's on her way to the lodge,
isn't she, Kyle. You're certain of that, certain too that
within two hours, by seven o'clock, she'll be dead, lying
in a crumbled heap at the foot of the stairs
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outside the Halliday Lodge. You stroll out of the office
down into the town, waste almost two hours chatting with
some old friends. Then a few minutes before seven, you're
at Jenny's apartment house, ringing the manager's bell.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Well, good evening, mister Halliday.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Grieve you, mister gros Share, wonderf you do me a favor?
I received a phone call from Jenny a little while ago.
She's on her way to Halliday Lodge, and she left
some important business papers in her apartment. Oh on the
pers key, Sure, hey, thanks, I'll bring them right back.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
No hurry, just drop the keys here in front of.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
My door on your way out.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Fine.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
Fine.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Once inside Jenny's apartment, you rush to the chest of drawers,
open the middle one where you saw Jenny put Willy
Syke's composition. You searched through it frantically.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
It's not here.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
A wave of panic sweeps over you, Karl, as the
sudden thought strikes you. Jenny could have taken the composition
with her. Yes, and when her body is found, the
Willy Sykes composition will be found too. Still, there is
a slim chance she's hitting it somewhere else in the apartment,
isn't there, Karl, And you've begin the search. It's no use,
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is it, Carl? You've wasted over half an hour searching
the apartment the papers on tea. You hurry out of
the apartment, and as you reach the sidewalk, a car
pulls up to the curtain.
Speaker 11 (22:07):
Car Jenny, I thought you'd be on your way to
the lodge.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Why, Jenny, what are you doing here?
Speaker 11 (22:14):
I might ask you the same thing.
Speaker 10 (22:17):
That's why you sent me off to the lodge so early.
Speaker 11 (22:19):
You wanted to search my apartment.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Oh no, no, Jenny getting the car. Now, Look, Jenny,
if you'll just let me explain, you've got this all wrong.
Speaker 11 (22:29):
Yes, I know I've had it all wrong right from
the beginning.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
What do you mean about us, Carl?
Speaker 8 (22:35):
No?
Speaker 11 (22:35):
Good don't work right.
Speaker 10 (22:38):
I guess I was a fool to think I could
force you into falling in love with me.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Jenny, what are.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
You trying to I'm through, Carl, washed up, finished with
the whole business. I just got back from shopping. I
also bought myself a train ticket. I'm leaving Summit for good.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Why that's right.
Speaker 10 (22:57):
I won't bother you any more, Carl. I'll see the
to get really Syke's compensation and burn it or whatever
you want.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Jenny, I don't know quite what to say.
Speaker 11 (23:10):
You don't have to say anything. It's all over, it's forgotten. Well,
how does it feel, Curl, to be.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Off the hook? It feels fine, Jenny. Yes, fine.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
You can't see it.
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Speaker 2 (25:02):
It was a shock, wasn't it? Carl meeting Jenny in
front of her apartment, when all the while you thought
she was dead, lying in a crumbled heap at the
foot of the stairs outside Halliday Lodge, killed by the
trap you had said, yes, and the paper you thought
she carried with her Willie Sykes's composition. It would have
been found on the body turned.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Over to the sheriff.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
That's all he would have needed, Carl. But everything's all
right now, isn't it. Jenny didn't go to the lodge
after all. Now, as you sit with her in the
park car in front of her apartment building, she's informed
you of her decision to leave Summit for good, step
out of your life forever, and you're certain you're completely.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
In the crew.
Speaker 10 (25:43):
Well, Carl, I guess we can say goodbye now.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Er Jenny. The composition you said, Oh, yes, yes.
Speaker 11 (25:50):
You'll get it, Carl. I gave it to Nex Max.
Speaker 10 (25:53):
Yes, after I've bought my train ticket, I went.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Back to the office.
Speaker 11 (25:56):
Looking for you. I wanted to give you the composition then,
but you were there, so I give it to Max.
Speaker 10 (26:01):
I I see he stuffed it into his pocket and
hit it.
Speaker 11 (26:03):
Up to the lodge.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
What what Max's on his way to the lodge.
Speaker 10 (26:07):
I told him about the meeting. You rushed right up
there to find you. That's that was about two hours.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
No, no, no, they'll find him.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Did They'll find him in the composition where are you going?
Speaker 8 (26:16):
You?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
I can still get away. They couldn't have found.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
What shore like a word with you?
Speaker 9 (26:23):
Halliday hell at headquarters?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Why, by what's wrong?
Speaker 9 (26:28):
I just drove back from Helliday Lodge. One of your
male foreman name of Sykes, found Max Spenner if he
was put.
Speaker 8 (26:33):
Of the stairway dead.
Speaker 9 (26:35):
He called me right away, Sykes. Yeah, seems he got
to the lodge early, wanted to make a good impression,
new job at all. Anyway, he found mac Fenner's body,
and uh I found this on Max. Yeah, h a
composition by Little Willie Sykes called a trip to Anne Sellas. No,
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looks like you were in Kensley the night Jason Melton
was murdered, kyl Now, hope we can just find a
cut on you made by Jason's letter opener. You're as
good as in the gas chamber right now.
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Invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
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Speaker 2 (00:51):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
For I walk by night.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of
men and women who.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Have stepped into the shadows.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare
not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, The Whistler's Strange Story,
A trip to Aunt Sarah's.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Carl Halliday was a desperate man all the while he
was driving from Summit to the northwest town of Kinsley.
He was haunted by the nagging realization that if Old J. S. Melton,
an associate of Karl's late uncle, refused to help him,
the Halliday lumber Mills would be no more. And seated
beside him a constant reminder of the impending defeat was
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his partner, Max Fenner, whom Carl had inherited along with
half interest in the mills from his uncle. Between the
two of them, they'd managed to bring the lumber mills
to the brink of oblivion, and only jce Melton's assistance
could save it now. Max remained in the car outside
while Carl Halliday pleaded his case with the elderly gentleman
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whom Carl believed could save the mills. With a single word.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
You're being unreasonable, completely unreasonable.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I think the same of you.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
You suggest that I sell a valuable piece of land
in Mexico to save a lumber mill which your operations
have brought to the brink of ruin.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
The land in Mexico is half mind?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Jason, remember that my inheritance.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Yes, you're in a poor position to judge it's true worth,
but you can and do for your welfare. In my
own it'll be worth twice what we're being offered in
one year. Oh my name isn't Jason Milton?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
A year?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
A year will be too late to save your lumber mill.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Yes, I suppose, But I've tried to help you before,
offered advice that could have saved the mill, but you'd
never listen to me.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
You've always thought you had all the answers.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Your free advice isn't what I need.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
It's too late for advice now.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Anyway, if you hadn't been so cocky, you wouldn't be
in this shape now.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You want me to lose the mill, don't you?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Why should I want you to lose it.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
To prove a point that you're always right.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I've never said that.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
I'd say you and that partner of yours, Max Fenner,
didn't stand a chance of making the mill pay. So
now now it's all about to be born out every
prediction you've ever made.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I don't give it that much thought.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Oh yes you do, Yes, you do. When I go,
you'll sit here by this fire and chuckle. You want
people to fail so you can laugh it.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Out of here.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Oh no, no, not yet, not.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Till this is settled.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Just turning on the radio.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
That's all the radio.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
You will, Jesse, you will.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
We'll play it loud, huh, real loud.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
No, No, no, stay away from me, Carl.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Killing you're killing God.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
You didn't have to do that.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Shut up, Max, shut up and think you almost got me.
Tore the devil out of my arm with a letter
opener before I them.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Away I'm sorry you hurt, Carb, but murder, how do
you expaid? Shut up?
Speaker 7 (04:06):
But Jase out of the picture. I can raise money
on the land in Mexico and saved the mill. But
if someone saw it, nobody saw us. No one even
knows we drove down here tonight. But if they did,
if they ever fought, they don't, and they won't.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
That's all that's important now, Max. That and the simple
fact that the money I raised from that land will.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Keep us in business.
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Yes, it will do that.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Don't drive too fast, Calve.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
We must get back to Summit without being seen. Don't
stop or anything.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Oh, you worried too much.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Max.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
You're not nearly as calm as you would have, Max Fenner,
believe are you, Carl No, because you know your little
partner will. He'll take whatever strength he can from you,
so you must remain very strong, at least seemingly. There's
much on your mind, much ahead.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Of you to face.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You dismiss the deep jagged cut on your arm from
Jace Melton's letter over there. No one need know about that.
You're far more concerned with the questioning you'll get in
the matter of Jace's death. So many people can testify
to the many differences you've had between That's why you're
not at all surprised the next morning when Sheriff Avery
pays a visit to your office and is ushered in
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by your secretary.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Sheriff Avery, of course, Jenny, of course, your menff.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
Good morning, Carl, mind you, Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I'm surprised to see your way out here.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
Uh huh, Karl, I suppose you've heard about the murder
over in Kinsley.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Murdering Kinsley? When who uh.
Speaker 9 (05:40):
Jase Melton happened last night? He was alone in the house.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You mean someone broke in it was a robbery.
Speaker 9 (05:46):
Well, I don't know what there is they're advancing over
in Kinsley.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Me.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
I've got low ideas. Jace was a friend of yours,
wasn't he.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
He was a friend of my uncle's.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
He and I were associated only through business, Sheriff, and
very little of that. We owned some property together. Otherwise
I'd never trouble to see him.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
I don't suppose you've seen him since the two of
your quarreled a week ago.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Why, well, no, Jenny, Have I been to Kingsley since
last week? No?
Speaker 10 (06:12):
Not since a week ago.
Speaker 9 (06:13):
Fairs, just for the record, Carl, where were you last night?
Speaker 7 (06:17):
I was here in my office working, And just for
the record, Sheriff, I don't like your insinuation.
Speaker 9 (06:22):
I'm not insinuating anything. I'm merely asking questions. It's my job.
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Sure, you can't spec me to Halliday of a crime.
Speaker 9 (06:29):
Never mind, you realize, Carl, and under the circumstances, the
quawling and all that, if you had gone down there
last night.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I realized that, Sheriff. But I was here working.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
Can you prove that, Carl, if you have to wow?
Speaker 7 (06:43):
No, But could you prove I wasn't, or show anything
to indicate that I could have been anywhere near Melton's
place at the time of his death?
Speaker 9 (06:50):
No, I guess now. Oh, by the way, Carl, you
you haven't asked, But Jace Melton was killed with a
fireplace poker and it looks like he defended himself. Oh,
with a letter opener. The murderer is probably carrying a
last to cut on in some way. Well, thanks for
talking to me. Talk to you anytime, share Oh, I'll
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be running along. Oh never mind, miss, I can find.
Speaker 10 (07:13):
My way as you wish.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Well, you were more annoyed than I was. Jenny, who
showed real faith in me. And thanks for remembering the
exact day I went down there.
Speaker 10 (07:26):
I'm paid to remember, mister.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Halliday, I suppose, but uh, I look at it differently, Jenny,
and I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (07:35):
I'm glad, particularly that you look at it differently.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
She says it oddly, doesn't she? Carl, and you reflect
that you've often thought she was an odd girl. But
you give Jenny little more thought in the days that follow,
because the murder in Kinsley gets little space in the newspapers.
In summit, your name isn't even mentioned, and you feel
for certain that you and Max Fenner are in the clear.
You are able to persuade the bank to advance you
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some money, that you'll have no trouble clearing the title
to the land once Jace Melton's will is probate. Even
the deep cut on your arm seems to be less painful.
And then, with all going quite nicely, you receive a
surprise in a conversation with Jenny one afternoon in your office.
Speaker 10 (08:24):
Oh yes, mister Halliday, I mentioned to you before that
my sister teaches school.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Well, I don't recall, but Jenny, I stood don't see why.
Speaker 10 (08:31):
I brought it up when you see. My sister visited
me the other evening, and I well, I helped her correct.
Speaker 11 (08:36):
Some school papers. She teaches the fifth grade, you know,
uh huh.
Speaker 10 (08:40):
Well, anyway, in helping her, I ran across very interesting
composition by a boy named Willie Sikes. It was called
a Trip to Antst. So, sir, h it seems that
last week Willie Sykes took the train up to the
big city all by himself. He was so excited by
it all that he sat up half the night.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
On the observation Jenny, I don't want to seem rude,
but with the work we have to do, I'm hardly
interested in the composition of a year that.
Speaker 11 (09:06):
You haven't heard what he wrote.
Speaker 10 (09:08):
You see the train on the way to the city.
It stopped at the Kinsley so so the train blocked
the main street crossing, and from the observation platform, Willie
Ssyke saw a man get out of his car stopped
at the crossing and wipe off his windsheet. He recognized
the man as his father's boss.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
His father's boss.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
Willy's father works here at the lumber mill. All right,
will I saw you get out of that car and
he says there was another man inside the car. He
took that trip to night.
Speaker 11 (09:38):
Jason Milton was killed.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Where's this composition, Jenny?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Whereason?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
I want to see it? Has anyone else seen what.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
The boy wrote?
Speaker 10 (09:45):
No, No, mister Halliday, H Carl, I'm the only one
that's seen it, and I put it away in a
very safe train.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
You can't see it.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You can't see the wear that's taking place inside your
car's engine, but you can see smoke in the exhaust,
which means engine wear is causing your car to consume
more and more oil until eventually it becomes an oil eater.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
You can't feel it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
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Speaker 2 (11:40):
It's a terrible moment, isn't it? Kyl with Jenny, your secretary,
describing a composition she corrected for her sister, who teaches school,
A composition by a ten year old boy describing a
trip to Aunt Sarah's, but a composition also proving that
you and Max Fenner were in Kinsley on the knight
Jase Melton was murdered.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
It's all.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
The sheriff would need to have a strong case against you,
especially since you lied to him about being there and
you listen in shocked terror. As Jenny continues, and well.
Speaker 11 (12:11):
That's that's all, mister Halliday. Chlorol.
Speaker 10 (12:16):
Naturally, I kept my sister from seeing the competition. She
marked it a n A on my recommendation.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
But but what happened to it?
Speaker 11 (12:23):
I uh kept it?
Speaker 9 (12:27):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (12:28):
I see.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Well, go on, Jenny, He'll be what do you want
for that competition?
Speaker 9 (12:37):
How much?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Nothing?
Speaker 10 (12:40):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Nothing?
Speaker 9 (12:43):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (12:44):
Really well, I I was hoping you would bring us
a little closer together, you see, I've I've always admired you,
mister Halliday.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Oh, I've always admired you, Jenny. You know you are
quite pretty? Quite pretty.
Speaker 11 (13:07):
Then then we shouldn't have any trouble, none at.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
All, No, none, Jenny, none whatsoever?
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Come here?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
And so in the days that follow you turn on
the charm. Don't you call evidence a great deal of
interest in Jenny? Anything to keep her quiet for the
time being, until you can think of some way to
silence her forever. In the meantime, you make plans for
Willy's father, don't you, Yes, And one morning he's ushered
into your office.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
You sent for me, mister Halliday, Yes, yes, Sikes down.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Oh morning, mister, good morning, Good morning, Sykes.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
You're familiar with the mill at the Pine.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
Or sure worked a couple of years before I come here.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
How'd you like to go back?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Go back to prime view?
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Well, snice up there as Foreman Orman need surprised sex well?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Uh? I sure, I am, mister Fanner.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
Uh don't know what to say.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Of course, it'll be moving your family out of Summit,
leaving a lot of friends here.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
Oh, don't worry about that none, mister Holliday, I won't
mind at all.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Good good, you'll start drawing a foremance paid the minute
you reach find.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
You well, Thanks like mister Halliday, mister.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
You're a good man. Sex does have the chance.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
I'll go home fellow you right now.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Thanks again, good luck. Well, that's that. I'm sure feel
a lot better when that sex kid gets out of
town satisfied with everything. Now, are you, Max?
Speaker 8 (14:46):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Aren't you?
Speaker 8 (14:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Now I still have Jenny, remember, yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Well, she's beginning to annoy me.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
I warn you, Max, I may do something about her too,
and I may do it soon.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
It's while you're returning from an inspection tour of the
mills a week later that you decide to stop at
Halliday Lodge high in the timber country above Summer. Once
used as a weekend retreat by your late uncle. The
place has been closed now for a number of years.
You dread the thought of returning to town and Jenny
so soon, don't you?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Car decide you.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Need more time alone to think things out. You park
your car on the road above the lot, and as
you start down the long flight of stone stairs, your
foot suddenly gives way up. The guard rail was the
only thing that saved you from falling? Car, Yes, saved
you from hurtling down the stairs. You kneel down, examine
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the stairs. The stone slab is loose, isn't it? Car
made you lose your balance?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
All those stairs are I would have been killed. I'll
I would have been killed.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
The idea hits you suddenly, doesn't it, Carl. You get
to work, scoop more dirt out from under the stone slab,
prop it in place with a few twigs. Then you
loosen the guard rail and the stage is set for murder.
You hurry back into town, and that evening proceeded the
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Jenny's apartment.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Oh hoo, car, Hello Jenny.
Speaker 10 (16:31):
I wasn't sure if you'd be back from the trip
in time for our das I hurried back, especially fortune Well,
I'm already I'll just get my hat and cold.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
The moment she steps out of the room, you decide
to try an old trick. You pull the window shade
down to with an inch of the bottom of the window,
then you slip the catch on the lock of the
apartment door. You hope it will work with Jenny and
lead you to the evidence she holds against you.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
Mister Golden calls from Seattle bought that shipman last week,
and or there were several letters.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
East Jimmy, We'll save all came here.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Oh God, well, enjoy ourselves.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
Alright, Uh shall we go?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
What are you thinking about, Jenny? You haven't said a
word in the last ten minutes.
Speaker 11 (17:27):
H Oh, I'm sorry, Carla, I I'm just thinking.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah. Do you have fun tonight?
Speaker 8 (17:33):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
You know I do?
Speaker 10 (17:34):
Oh, Carl, God, I've met so many wonderful, exciting peoples and.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
And there are a lot more I want you to meet, Jemmy,
new and interesting places to visit to us.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Well, here we.
Speaker 10 (17:50):
Are, Oh home already?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yeah, Sorry, the evening's over.
Speaker 11 (17:55):
Oh of course I am.
Speaker 10 (17:58):
But I'm a working girl. After one in the morning.
Speaker 11 (18:01):
Oh gotta get my asleep, you know. Oh, don't bother
getting out, Carl.
Speaker 10 (18:06):
Good night, Jenny, Good night, car see you in the morning.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
Sweet dreams.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
You drive away, park your car out of sight around
the corner, and hurry back to the window of Jenny's
ground floor apartment.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Crouched low.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You can see her standing in the middle of the
living room, a puzzled expression on her face. Your trick
is working, isn't it. She's noticed the door was unlocked.
Now she will suspect that someone was in her apartment
while she was gone, and she'll go right for Willie
Sykes's composition to see if it's safe. She turns toward
the window where you've drawn the shade, and then hurries
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to the chest of drawers at the far end.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Of the room.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
She opened the middle drawer, sifts through a number of items,
and finally, with a sigh, she withdraws the papers Willie's composition.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Kyle, thanks sweet huh. All I wanted to know was
where you kept that composition? Morning Jenny, morning Carr.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Okay, knock, don't ball me out. I know I'm might.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Oh, it's a fine time to show up at the office. Huh.
Speaker 11 (19:27):
I'll let you know on something. I would laid my bills.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Oh, by the way, Jenny, I meant to tell you
something last night. Oh yes, call up the mill.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Form in a Shelton find you in Harriston.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Will you tell them there's going to be a meeting
tonight at day o'clock at Holiday Lodge.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
It's a good idea, And uh, Jenny.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I think you'd better run up, run on up ahead
of the rest of us. Place has been close for
some time, you know, and probably need.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Some straightening out. And you'd know about that.
Speaker 11 (19:51):
I will do.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Yeah, he's sure you don't mind.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
Oh, of course not, Carl, I don't mind at all.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
It's late that afternoon, when Jenny leaves the office. You
stand by the window and wait. Presently you see her
drive back from her apartment, past the office and head
into the town. She's on her way to the lodge,
isn't she, Kyle. You're certain of that, certain too that
within two hours, by seven o'clock, she'll be dead, lying
in a crumbled heap at the foot of the stairs
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outside the Halliday Lodge. You stroll out of the office
down into the town, waste almost two hours chatting with
some old friends. Then a few minutes before seven, you're
at Jenny's apartment house, ringing the manager's bell.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Well, good evening, mister Halliday.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Grieve you, mister gros Share, wonderf you do me a favor?
I received a phone call from Jenny a little while ago.
She's on her way to Halliday Lodge, and she left
some important business papers in her apartment. Oh on the
pers key, Sure, hey, thanks, I'll bring them right back.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
No hurry, just drop the keys here in front of.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
My door on your way out.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Fine.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
Fine.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Once inside Jenny's apartment, you rush to the chest of drawers,
open the middle one where you saw Jenny put Willy
Syke's composition. You searched through it frantically.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
It's not here.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
A wave of panic sweeps over you, Karl, as the
sudden thought strikes you. Jenny could have taken the composition
with her. Yes, and when her body is found, the
Willy Sykes composition will be found too. Still, there is
a slim chance she's hitting it somewhere else in the apartment,
isn't there, Karl, And you've begin the search. It's no use,
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is it, Carl? You've wasted over half an hour searching
the apartment the papers on tea. You hurry out of
the apartment, and as you reach the sidewalk, a car
pulls up to the curtain.
Speaker 11 (22:07):
Car Jenny, I thought you'd be on your way to
the lodge.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Why, Jenny, what are you doing here?
Speaker 11 (22:14):
I might ask you the same thing.
Speaker 10 (22:17):
That's why you sent me off to the lodge so early.
Speaker 11 (22:19):
You wanted to search my apartment.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Oh no, no, Jenny getting the car. Now, Look, Jenny,
if you'll just let me explain, you've got this all wrong.
Speaker 11 (22:29):
Yes, I know I've had it all wrong right from
the beginning.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
What do you mean about us, Carl?
Speaker 8 (22:35):
No?
Speaker 11 (22:35):
Good don't work right.
Speaker 10 (22:38):
I guess I was a fool to think I could
force you into falling in love with me.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Jenny, what are.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
You trying to I'm through, Carl, washed up, finished with
the whole business. I just got back from shopping. I
also bought myself a train ticket. I'm leaving Summit for good.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Why that's right.
Speaker 10 (22:57):
I won't bother you any more, Carl. I'll see the
to get really Syke's compensation and burn it or whatever
you want.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Jenny, I don't know quite what to say.
Speaker 11 (23:10):
You don't have to say anything. It's all over, it's forgotten. Well,
how does it feel, Curl, to be.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Off the hook? It feels fine, Jenny. Yes, fine.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
You can't see it.
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Speaker 2 (25:02):
It was a shock, wasn't it? Carl meeting Jenny in
front of her apartment, when all the while you thought
she was dead, lying in a crumbled heap at the
foot of the stairs outside Halliday Lodge, killed by the
trap you had said, yes, and the paper you thought
she carried with her Willie Sykes's composition. It would have
been found on the body turned.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Over to the sheriff.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
That's all he would have needed, Carl. But everything's all
right now, isn't it. Jenny didn't go to the lodge
after all. Now, as you sit with her in the
park car in front of her apartment building, she's informed
you of her decision to leave Summit for good, step
out of your life forever, and you're certain you're completely.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
In the crew.
Speaker 10 (25:43):
Well, Carl, I guess we can say goodbye now.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Er Jenny. The composition you said, Oh, yes, yes.
Speaker 11 (25:50):
You'll get it, Carl. I gave it to Nex Max.
Speaker 10 (25:53):
Yes, after I've bought my train ticket, I went.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Back to the office.
Speaker 11 (25:56):
Looking for you. I wanted to give you the composition then,
but you were there, so I give it to Max.
Speaker 10 (26:01):
I I see he stuffed it into his pocket and
hit it.
Speaker 11 (26:03):
Up to the lodge.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
What what Max's on his way to the lodge.
Speaker 10 (26:07):
I told him about the meeting. You rushed right up
there to find you. That's that was about two hours.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
No, no, no, they'll find him.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Did They'll find him in the composition where are you going?
Speaker 8 (26:16):
You?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
I can still get away. They couldn't have found.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
What shore like a word with you?
Speaker 9 (26:23):
Halliday hell at headquarters?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Why, by what's wrong?
Speaker 9 (26:28):
I just drove back from Helliday Lodge. One of your
male foreman name of Sykes, found Max Spenner if he
was put.
Speaker 8 (26:33):
Of the stairway dead.
Speaker 9 (26:35):
He called me right away, Sykes. Yeah, seems he got
to the lodge early, wanted to make a good impression,
new job at all. Anyway, he found mac Fenner's body,
and uh I found this on Max. Yeah, h a
composition by Little Willie Sykes called a trip to Anne Sellas. No,
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looks like you were in Kensley the night Jason Melton
was murdered, kyl Now, hope we can just find a
cut on you made by Jason's letter opener. You're as
good as in the gas chamber right now.
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Featured in Tonight's story were Bill Foreman, Wally Mayer, G. G. Pearson,
Bill Bouchet, Charles Calvert, and Charles Seal. The Whistler was
produced and directed by George w Allen, with story by
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Steve Hampton, music by Wilbur Hatch, and was transmitted to
our troops overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. The
Whistler is entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on the
Whistler are also fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance
to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Remember to
tune in at the same time next Sunday, when the
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in diamonds that turns into murder right before a man's eyes.
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