August 8, 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 (00:00):
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.
(00:27):
Invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
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 step
into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's Strange Story,
Caesar's wife.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
They were starting the day, the three of them, just
as they had begun every Monday morning for as long
as any of them could remember. But that was because
none of them had any premonition of what was going
to happen in the next twenty four hours. Frank Conway,
the Caesar of the Rackets, was standing in front of
the mirror in his luxurious hotel suite. Joe, his personal barber,
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who had just finished trimming his hair, did nothing but
stand there behind him holding a towel. He watched his
Frank Conway shaved himself with an electric razor. Joe was
wondering what to do with his hands, feeling as awkward
and helpless on this occasion as he did on many
other Monday morning routines, the weekly command performance at eight
o'clock sharp, and Conway's sweep.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Kirby Morton, the.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Other man in the room, was more relaxed. After many
years with Conway, he'd learned to accept anything.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Joe, Yes, mister Mortington, I wouldn't stand behind the boys
like that.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
You make him nervous.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
It makes you think I'm nervous. Kirby, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I just got the idea from the way you talk
to Judge Faukner yesterday.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Forget Faulkner.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Well, after all, it's staring in the Mirrorge, Joe going
over there and sit down, and I'm through shaving.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Hey, you see, Joe.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
I'm sure mister kinaware it chose to curt me when
you're ready. You know you're hard to please.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Frank.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
A couple of weeks ago you use your power to
get a judge of your own.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Elected Superior Court.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Masterpiece of an Akla today is honor Judge Falkner calls
up to say thank you, and suddenly you're.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Allergic to the telephone.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I'll give his honor to be Judge Falkner plenty of
time to thank me when he's on the bench. Yeah,
I'm sure you will.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
And you don't have to jump down my throat just
because you're off your feet today.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Okay, Kirby, I'm sorry here, Joe take this electric crazy, sure.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Mister Connaway. Not you put on a little powder calm
the head.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Not today, put mister Conaway.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
I got a beautiful new todlet of water. Joe. Yes,
mister Connaway. Maybe tomorrow morning, Yeah, tomorrow you feel better,
you know, Kirby.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Sometimes I don't think you're very smart. I love shooting
your mouth off about me electing judges.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
In front of Joe. He's been with you for years.
He can talk, Hendy, he won't talk.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
He worships you.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Yeah, sure, sure, everybody worships me.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Bob's Bootblack's fat headed warter Heeler is like Falkner. I'm
sick of it, of all the loving I get because
people are afraid of me, or I've got something they want.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Stay me with raisins, comfort me, with apples for I
am sick of love?
Speaker 6 (04:11):
What's there?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Solomon? You got to read him sometimes, bestseller in his day.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Yeah, well, I've got other things to do. Yeah, I
guess you have.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Well, are you going to tell me what's eating you
or not?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
There's nothing wrong with me. You're making it hard for me, Frank,
put yourself in my shoes. Presentation for mister Big of
the rackets. Colorful character, the walking question mark, the guy
who can swing elections and collect payoff, but who can't
stand the sight of blood or the feel of a
razor against his face. And I can't say a word
to the papers. Don't even ask questions, right hand man
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to a guy I don't even know.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
I set shut up?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Okay, so I shut up.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
You have a right to be irritated with Kirby, haven't you, Frank.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
In the years he's served you, he certainly should have
learned that you are a strange. Fear of sharp objects,
of things that cut and scratch is something no one
asks about ever. The big secret, the thing that makes
you a walking question mark, belongs to you and only
one other man in the world, A secret terror other
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people will learn about within twenty four hours. But you
have no way of knowing that, Frank. A few minutes later,
as you and Kirby are about to settle down to work,
he gets on another subject, just as irritating.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Eh, Frank, if I didn't know you better, i'd say
you had woman troubles. He had all the symptoms.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Maybe you're right, Kirby.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Oh you little old for that now, aunt you.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Frank thinks so Glory is a great girl. You wouldn't
want a better wife? Yesked me, I didn't ask you.
Oh look, Frank, all right, wait a minute, Wait a minute, Frank, Darling, Lauria,
what do you mean by walking in like that? Listen
to him, Kirby. You'd never know. We had the top
floor of this hotel practically sealed off for his private use.
(06:10):
But just the same, honey, I've read, Darling.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Stop growling.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
I just dropped by to tell you I had a.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Date for lunch. Oh that's nice anybody I know?
Speaker 8 (06:22):
Yes, yes, Darling, I think so.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Mitzi Raymond.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
You remember her used to be in the chorus with
me at the Homosa Club.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
You don't expect Frank to remember anything that far back,
do you, Gloria? Oooh, you make me feel like something
out of the Flora.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Doll sex tatter.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Resent that for me?
Speaker 8 (06:38):
Will you frank now?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Kiss me?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Baby?
Speaker 8 (06:40):
I gotta go, I got to hurry.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Sure.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
M Oh, your face is so smooth, darling.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
See you later, honey, A wonderful girl.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Yeah, say, what were you saying about? Forget? Forget it?
I don't want to talk about it now, am I.
Let's get this work cleared up. Huh.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I've got a feeling I'm going to have an important
date for lunch and let those guys as the black
Cat know their take was twenty percent out of last month.
I't know it already, that's all right, tell them again.
Tell him I'm very unhappy about it, and the figures
better be up by there first. I'll get it expecting someone. Yeah, yeah,
we'll see now about that lunch of what? Oh hello, Sally, Yeah,
(07:27):
I met the Conway. I did what you said there?
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Okay, Sally, you can talk in front of Kirvy. Oh yeah,
well I I found him, missus Conway.
Speaker 9 (07:36):
Like you said, she went to a little French restaurant
to masoned something rather than forty sixth Street. Go on,
well she met someone there.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Oh uh. He was a nice looking for in a
gray suit.
Speaker 9 (07:50):
They took a table in the corner.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I'll fill in the missing words. Thanks, Sally. I watch,
that's all I want to know.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Go on, get out, okay, mister k Well, yeah, what
does that mean?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
That's the MIDSI Gloria is having lunch with the one
I used to dance in the line at the Hermosa.
I can't believe, Gloria, Kirby, you're a whiz at quotations.
Another one about Caesar's wife. Yeah, I ran across it
the other day, says Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
What did Caesar do about it? Kirby?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
He left her.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
She got off easy, didn't she. Now, don't go jump
in conclusion. Yeah, sees it didn't have much pride, Keirby.
There's only one thing to do in a case like wait.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Wait a minute, Frank, you gotta give her the benefit
of the ever think, Kirby.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Time she gave something to me, her life, not hers.
But you don't know this guy. You aren't sure. Another saying,
you know, render unto seizes the things that are seizes.
That's all. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Are you passing up the easiest chance you've ever had
to win a new car, a buick. Super you are
if you haven't entered Signals Big ten thousand dollars contest.
Anyone can enter, mind you, because no purchases are required.
There are no box stops to send in. Simply stop
at any signal service station and ask for a free
(09:46):
entry blank. Then for just writing twenty five words or less,
you may win one of the two hundred big prizes.
And what you write is so easy, so much fun,
you probably want to send in several entries. You know
those signal cartoon billboards that show an angry bride waiting
at the church door for the groom who's just arriving
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late because he ran out of gas. Well, all you
need do is write what you think the bride is
shouting at the groom. For instance, she might be shouting
in addition to love, honor and obey, you'll have to
promise to use signal go farther gasoline.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
After this, think of it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
For writing something as easy as that, you might win
the buick, or a packard bell television set, or a
frigidaire refrigerator, electric range, or home freezer. Winners will be
selected on the basis of originality and humor, aptness and
suitability in advertising signal products. So make a bee line
for your nearest signal station and ask for a contest entry.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Blank. They're free, no purchase required.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yes, Frank, ye shall render unto Caesar the things that
are Caesar's. And as you ride with Kirby Morton across
town to the Little French restaurant on forty sixth Street,
the a gnawing suspicion inside you was given way to
a dull, sure feeling that there's only one solution now,
one way to take care of the man who has
dared to fall in love with Caesar's wife. Glory had
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been so clever about it, so positive that the meetings,
the casual helloes in the hotel lobby, the whispered telephone
conversations were unnoticed.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
But Kirby is still right.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Frank, You've got to be sure. You've got to see
for yourself what's going on in the restaurant. The two
of you stand with a hatcheck stand looking back into
the cozy little bar in the rear. O, may I
hate you.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Miss you?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
No, we're just looking around. I have a nice table
in the other week I told you, we're just looking around.
If I don't miss you, well satisfied, Kirby, I don't know, Frank.
Look at him. He's bringing her a drink from the bar.
And your boy was right. He's a good looking joe. Yeah,
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personality with shoulders and coat lapels to match. Look, Frank,
he could be her brother. She's an only child. Oh
to that, Look at that? Look at that she's laughing.
He must have said something funny. Maybe I had to
wrestle up a couple of new jokes. Frank, Come on,
I've seen enough. You've got to make sure don't.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Worry Kirby before we're throw I'll be sure.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I've seen you like this before, Frank, he's going to
all this trouble tamping, glorious telephone and everything.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Reas, Kirby, I'm handling this personally. I want to hear
just how interesting mister Lapels can be.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Okay, as we just sit around and wait, yeah, oh,
I almost forgot. Judge Faulkner's outside, wait and see you.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
He can keep on waiting. Get my tailor in here,
like I said, Okay, and command mister Robert MSUs Conways
ready for you now, Yes.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yes, of course, this will only take a minute. Mister Conway.
I just want you to slip the coat on.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Let me get a quick look, all right, help me
into it, will you.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
That's it out. Careful of the larning. It's only basted.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Uh what about uh? What about these lapels? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Oh, I've got them pinned back. But the latest thing,
mister Conway, I made so look I saw some lapels
this wide, say you out there here shop.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
That's the way I want them.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
But this type of garment, never mind, I know what
I want, of course, mister Conway, I don't watch out.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
What are you trying to do it?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Get away, mister Conway. I look at this pen sticking
right out with the pin what take this thing off me?
I don't want the suit your here. Throw out the
ash can. He's going to a lot of hay him off.
Get him out of here.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
I don't want to hear it anymore. Better robbers, But
the material he said to pay you off not come on?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Well all right, mister Kebby the way, I hate you
do business.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
It's all right to see you later, Rubber. Don't worry
about it, Frank, I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
You don't have to but it was only a pin
the poor guy it No, I won't. A few days
ago was a pair of scissors that upset you, and
last week was an ordinary candle.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
But I thought I made it clear, Kirby, you don't
have to see anything.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
But we're friends. I don't know you well enough to
but you don't. Nobody knows me that. Well, let's forget it.
I got other things to attend to.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
It doesn't add up for me, Frank listening into your
own wife's phone calls.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Shut up with you?
Speaker 9 (14:52):
Hello, Hello, Lauria, Hello, Alan?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
This is it all right?
Speaker 8 (14:56):
Alan? I have the money for you.
Speaker 9 (15:00):
Oh swell uh, Look, I don't want you to think
I was in a.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Hurry for it.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
Oh the money isn't important, you know that.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I know.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
Say uh, I was thinking I might go out of
town for the weekend. Oh it'll be all.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Right with you?
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Is it awfully important?
Speaker 9 (15:17):
Well, there'sn't a matter of life and death.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
You know how I feel, Alan about your being here.
It means so much to me just to know that
you're around.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
I understand. I.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
I don't want you to get the idea that I
think I can own you a bore or No, Now
you know why I got you a room right here
in the hotel.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
Yes, I know. Forget it. I'll stick around, would you.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
Oh that's perfect?
Speaker 9 (15:40):
Uh uh By the way that reminds me, I moved
to a better room this morning. I'm in room fourteen
thirty eight. Better jot it down, Room fourteen thirty eight.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
I'll remember.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Mmm.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
I'll be in till after six that I'm gonna have
dinner at Luigi's.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
Fine. I'll meet you there if I can slip away
from a party we're going to, and I'll have the
money for you.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
Okay, by now, goodbye?
Speaker 6 (16:07):
A dirty little double crosser. What is it, Frank?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
What they talking about?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
She belongs to me, Kirby? Do you understand me? Frank?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
You're upset? You better talk upset. Oh No, I'm not, Kirby.
I'm just as calm as i'll have to be. You're
looking for this What did gun? What's got into you?
Haven't touched a gun in all the years I've been
with Herby, I keep telling you this is a personal affair,
very personal.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
You're talking foolish. That's hoodlum.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Stop listen.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
If this thing has to be done, I can drop
a word. No, buddy, Kirby, Frank, you can't do this
is crazy, Kirby, you can't stop me. Caesar's wife, do
you remember? Should be about suspicion? I get Judge Faulkner
in here.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
It's been an hour. He's probably gone get him.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
No, you can't talk to him now, not when you're
in this frame of mind.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Okay, Kirby, I'll get him myself. Judge and I are
going to have a little talk.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Come, I name your runner. Sorry to keep you waiting
so long.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
That's all right, Frank. I was perfectly comfortable. Oh good,
you know Kirby Morton, don't you, Judge, Yes, we've met.
Sit down, Sit down, Judge. I'll fix your drink. Oh no, thanks,
I just dropped by. Thank you for the way everything
worked out. Oh no, it's my pleasure, your honor. It's
some beautifully handled, Frank, beautifully hand We try to keep
things running smooth. I figure you'll be an I said, Judge.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
To the people and to me.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I should say so anything I can ever do. Frank,
I'm glad we understand one another. It cuts out a
good deal of unnecessary conversation. Right yeah, Judge Faultner, I
think we should have a little celebration, you know, nothing,
fancy maybe a quiet dinner delighted. Yeah, say it's your
house tonight. I'm sure missus Faulkner will be honored. Good
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good about six o'clock six, Why I think that can
be arranged. It is arranged, and Judge, yeah, I'm going
to be late. I quite understand. Well, that's one thing
you'll ever have to quite understand as far as you're
concerned and your wife, Judge, I arrived at six shop.
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But I, Frank, you're you're my friend that I do
anything for you only if I got into any mix
ups at this be no.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Mix up for you from now on, Judge. Just do
as you're told.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, I think I understand a dot of six stayed on.
You're a smart guy, Judge, both on and off the bench.
And now, Judge Faulkner, you better run along, hey, work
things out with missus Faulkner.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
You know the ladies, they like to plan their social activity.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
He is, of course. Well I'll be running along, and
good day, mister Martin, and see you tonight, Frank right
at six.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Judge, for an alibi that it's going to be Frank.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Yeah, Kirby that's exactly the way it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Well, it's a good thing you found use for him
so soon?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
You guys who won't take long for the people to
find out he's a phony apple, he's thrown out of office.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
He won't be much used to you.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Now, Look, Kirby, if you're trying to stop me, Oh no, Frank,
I no better than that.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
You made your decision. Nothing I can say. I'll stamp
you now.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yes, Frank, you've made your decision, haven't you, And you
lose little time in completing the arrangements. Gloria isn't going
to have any trouble slipping out, No, because you want
it that way. You want her to keep her appointment
at Luigi's be waiting for the man who will never appear.
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It's almost six o'clock before you're alone with Glory, and
it isn't easy to think of the brutal thing you're
going to do. Gloria is so beautiful, isn't she, Frank?
As she sits in a mirror combing her hair, she
seems so devoted, so innocent. You're getting dressed kind of
early tonight, aren't you, Gloria, mm hmm.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
You don't mind if I spend a little extra time
making myself beautiful for you, do you, Dory?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
No, now, I I've always wanted you to make yourself
beautiful for me.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Frank, what's the matter?
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Your sound?
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Well?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Strange?
Speaker 8 (20:35):
Is something bothering you, Darling?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Something on your mind?
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Nothing that can't be cleared up, Gloria. I think that
after the night everything will be all right again.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Frank, what do you mean? You're not taking any chances
if anything ever happened to you, Darling?
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Good what honey?
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Will you know how much I love you?
Speaker 6 (20:58):
I think I do. I think I know even better
than you, Gloria, whatever it is, dear, you will be careful, Promise, eh,
I promise I'll be extra careful, sweetheart.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yes, Frank, After to night, everything will be all right again,
and you'll be careful because it means so much to
both of you, so much to the future.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
That's what's in your mind.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
You wait quietly until a little before six, and then
let yourself out of the suite. The corridor outside is deserted,
and you walked swiftly to the automatic elevator, press the
button for the fourteenth floor, riding down. You patched gently
at the gun, nestled in its holster under your coat.
It's going to be quick in business like, isn't it, Frank.
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No time for a dangerous struggle, smooth the way you've
always run things. At Room fourteen thirty eight, you slip
a paskey into the lock and let yourself in quietly.
He's singing in the other room. Silently.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
You move in toward him.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You can see him standing in front of the mirror,
fixing his tie.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
He's pleased with himself.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Isn't he, Frank, even picking up his drink, holding it
up as if toasting himself in the mirror, toasting his
good fortune.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I'd enjoy that drink if I were you, Ellen, go
on as good away as any to die enjoying a
last drink. Conway, that's right, mister Conway, not missus.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
What's the matter. What are you talking about? Sorry, Ellan,
I'm all through talking. No, wait, you don't know what
you're doing.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
He stumbles, and as he falls towards you, the glass
in his hand smashes against the barrel of your gun.
You step back quickly and stare at the back of
your hand. A red gash Frank, a chance cut by
Alan's glass shatter against your gun. You stare at it horrified,
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because there it is, Frank, the answer to your unusual personality,
your big secret emophilia, the weakness you've guarded so faithfully
from everyone but your personal physician. Yes, Frank, the smallest
cutter scratch can kill you. That you bleed to death.
It's a thing that's kept you away from violence, isn't it.
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Frank forced you to have things done smoothly, businesslike, because
a tiny accident like this can cost your life.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
No hope, Oh breed today. I gotta get help. Gotta
get help.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
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probably said I could have written something that good. Of
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Speaker 2 (25:19):
So the murder of the young man in the gray suit,
Alan Roberts went off exactly as you planned it, Frank,
and he's lying dead now on the floor of room
fourteen thirty eight where you left him. More than that,
when the investigation is held, Judge Faulkner himself will be
ready to tell the police. You were at his home
having dinner at the time of the killing. But one
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little fact, the thing you couldn't have figured on a thing.
It would have made no difference to almost anyone, but you,
has turned it all into a nightmare. Yes, Frank, the
man you killed happened to be holding a half empty
drinking glass in his hand when you fired, and as
he fell towards you, his glass crashed against your gun,
cutting the back of your hand, a cut that can
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be as disastrous as final as a bullet in the head.
An hour later, back in your private suite, you can't
understand why Manheim, your private physician, is so common.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Will you hurry up? Doc? Take it easy, Frank, what
do you mean take it easy? You gotta do something. Listen, Frank,
you must try to relax. All we have to do
is wait a little while, wait a little while. You're crazy. Listen,
I know what can happen to me. I know about homophilia.
I've been reading about it all my life. But it's
not going to happen.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
You're right, and you don't know how lucky you are.
You need more than an ordinary transfusion. You're you're a
very rare type. And if we had to look for
your type of blood in a hurry, we we knew
we'd never have a chance.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
We Gloria and I. Gloria, she doesn't know, but she
does know.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
Frank, I thought it was better to tell her. It
was she who That's what I'm waiting for. Yes, is
this Manheim?
Speaker 4 (26:54):
What?
Speaker 6 (26:55):
What's that? Good Lord? What are you saying? Yes? Yes,
I know what's that? Frank, I I don't know how
to tell you? This?
Speaker 7 (27:10):
Tell me what the the man Gloria had moved into
the hotel, the one she hired just to be near
you all the time, the one in a million with
the type of blood that matches yours.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Gloria hired a man, Yes.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Alan Roberts. Oh no, no, he's dead. Frank murdered. They
just found him down in his room down in fourteen
thirty eight.
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And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's Strange Story,
Caesar's wife.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
They were starting the day, the three of them, just
as they had begun every Monday morning for as long
as any of them could remember. But that was because
none of them had any premonition of what was going
to happen in the next twenty four hours. Frank Conway,
the Caesar of the Rackets, was standing in front of
the mirror in his luxurious hotel suite. Joe, his personal barber,
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who had just finished trimming his hair, did nothing but
stand there behind him holding a towel. He watched his
Frank Conway shaved himself with an electric razor. Joe was
wondering what to do with his hands, feeling as awkward
and helpless on this occasion as he did on many
other Monday morning routines, the weekly command performance at eight
o'clock sharp, and Conway's sweep.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Kirby Morton, the.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Other man in the room, was more relaxed. After many
years with Conway, he'd learned to accept anything.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Joe, Yes, mister Mortington, I wouldn't stand behind the boys
like that.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
You make him nervous.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
It makes you think I'm nervous. Kirby, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I just got the idea from the way you talk
to Judge Faukner yesterday.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Forget Faulkner.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Well, after all, it's staring in the Mirrorge, Joe going
over there and sit down, and I'm through shaving.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Hey, you see, Joe.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
I'm sure mister kinaware it chose to curt me when
you're ready. You know you're hard to please.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Frank.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
A couple of weeks ago you use your power to
get a judge of your own.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Elected Superior Court.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Masterpiece of an Akla today is honor Judge Falkner calls
up to say thank you, and suddenly you're.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Allergic to the telephone.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I'll give his honor to be Judge Falkner plenty of
time to thank me when he's on the bench. Yeah,
I'm sure you will.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
And you don't have to jump down my throat just
because you're off your feet today.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Okay, Kirby, I'm sorry here, Joe take this electric crazy, sure.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Mister Connaway. Not you put on a little powder calm
the head.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Not today, put mister Conaway.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
I got a beautiful new todlet of water. Joe. Yes,
mister Connaway. Maybe tomorrow morning, Yeah, tomorrow you feel better,
you know, Kirby.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Sometimes I don't think you're very smart. I love shooting
your mouth off about me electing judges.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
In front of Joe. He's been with you for years.
He can talk, Hendy, he won't talk.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
He worships you.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Yeah, sure, sure, everybody worships me.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Bob's Bootblack's fat headed warter Heeler is like Falkner. I'm
sick of it, of all the loving I get because
people are afraid of me, or I've got something they want.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Stay me with raisins, comfort me, with apples for I
am sick of love?
Speaker 6 (04:11):
What's there?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Solomon? You got to read him sometimes, bestseller in his day.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Yeah, well, I've got other things to do. Yeah, I
guess you have.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Well, are you going to tell me what's eating you
or not?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
There's nothing wrong with me. You're making it hard for me, Frank,
put yourself in my shoes. Presentation for mister Big of
the rackets. Colorful character, the walking question mark, the guy
who can swing elections and collect payoff, but who can't
stand the sight of blood or the feel of a
razor against his face. And I can't say a word
to the papers. Don't even ask questions, right hand man
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to a guy I don't even know.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
I set shut up?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Okay, so I shut up.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
You have a right to be irritated with Kirby, haven't you, Frank.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
In the years he's served you, he certainly should have
learned that you are a strange. Fear of sharp objects,
of things that cut and scratch is something no one
asks about ever. The big secret, the thing that makes
you a walking question mark, belongs to you and only
one other man in the world, A secret terror other
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people will learn about within twenty four hours. But you
have no way of knowing that, Frank. A few minutes later,
as you and Kirby are about to settle down to work,
he gets on another subject, just as irritating.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Eh, Frank, if I didn't know you better, i'd say
you had woman troubles. He had all the symptoms.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Maybe you're right, Kirby.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Oh you little old for that now, aunt you.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Frank thinks so Glory is a great girl. You wouldn't
want a better wife? Yesked me, I didn't ask you.
Oh look, Frank, all right, wait a minute, Wait a minute, Frank, Darling, Lauria,
what do you mean by walking in like that? Listen
to him, Kirby. You'd never know. We had the top
floor of this hotel practically sealed off for his private use.
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But just the same, honey, I've read, Darling.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Stop growling.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
I just dropped by to tell you I had a.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Date for lunch. Oh that's nice anybody I know?
Speaker 8 (06:22):
Yes, yes, Darling, I think so.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Mitzi Raymond.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
You remember her used to be in the chorus with
me at the Homosa Club.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
You don't expect Frank to remember anything that far back,
do you, Gloria? Oooh, you make me feel like something
out of the Flora.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Doll sex tatter.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Resent that for me?
Speaker 8 (06:38):
Will you frank now?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Kiss me?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Baby?
Speaker 8 (06:40):
I gotta go, I got to hurry.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Sure.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
M Oh, your face is so smooth, darling.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
See you later, honey, A wonderful girl.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Yeah, say, what were you saying about? Forget? Forget it?
I don't want to talk about it now, am I.
Let's get this work cleared up. Huh.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I've got a feeling I'm going to have an important
date for lunch and let those guys as the black
Cat know their take was twenty percent out of last month.
I't know it already, that's all right, tell them again.
Tell him I'm very unhappy about it, and the figures
better be up by there first. I'll get it expecting someone. Yeah, yeah,
we'll see now about that lunch of what? Oh hello, Sally, Yeah,
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I met the Conway. I did what you said there?
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Okay, Sally, you can talk in front of Kirvy. Oh yeah,
well I I found him, missus Conway.
Speaker 9 (07:36):
Like you said, she went to a little French restaurant
to masoned something rather than forty sixth Street. Go on,
well she met someone there.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Oh uh. He was a nice looking for in a
gray suit.
Speaker 9 (07:50):
They took a table in the corner.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I'll fill in the missing words. Thanks, Sally. I watch,
that's all I want to know.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Go on, get out, okay, mister k Well, yeah, what
does that mean?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
That's the MIDSI Gloria is having lunch with the one
I used to dance in the line at the Hermosa.
I can't believe, Gloria, Kirby, you're a whiz at quotations.
Another one about Caesar's wife. Yeah, I ran across it
the other day, says Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
What did Caesar do about it? Kirby?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
He left her.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
She got off easy, didn't she. Now, don't go jump
in conclusion. Yeah, sees it didn't have much pride, Keirby.
There's only one thing to do in a case like wait.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Wait a minute, Frank, you gotta give her the benefit
of the ever think, Kirby.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Time she gave something to me, her life, not hers.
But you don't know this guy. You aren't sure. Another saying,
you know, render unto seizes the things that are seizes.
That's all. It's as simple as that.
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Speaker 6 (10:23):
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Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yes, Frank, ye shall render unto Caesar the things that
are Caesar's. And as you ride with Kirby Morton across
town to the Little French restaurant on forty sixth Street,
the a gnawing suspicion inside you was given way to
a dull, sure feeling that there's only one solution now,
one way to take care of the man who has
dared to fall in love with Caesar's wife. Glory had
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been so clever about it, so positive that the meetings,
the casual helloes in the hotel lobby, the whispered telephone
conversations were unnoticed.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
But Kirby is still right.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Frank, You've got to be sure. You've got to see
for yourself what's going on in the restaurant. The two
of you stand with a hatcheck stand looking back into
the cozy little bar in the rear. O, may I
hate you.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Miss you?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
No, we're just looking around. I have a nice table
in the other week I told you, we're just looking around.
If I don't miss you, well satisfied, Kirby, I don't know, Frank.
Look at him. He's bringing her a drink from the bar.
And your boy was right. He's a good looking joe. Yeah,
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personality with shoulders and coat lapels to match. Look, Frank,
he could be her brother. She's an only child. Oh
to that, Look at that? Look at that she's laughing.
He must have said something funny. Maybe I had to
wrestle up a couple of new jokes. Frank, Come on,
I've seen enough. You've got to make sure don't.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Worry Kirby before we're throw I'll be sure.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I've seen you like this before, Frank, he's going to
all this trouble tamping, glorious telephone and everything.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Reas, Kirby, I'm handling this personally. I want to hear
just how interesting mister Lapels can be.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Okay, as we just sit around and wait, yeah, oh,
I almost forgot. Judge Faulkner's outside, wait and see you.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
He can keep on waiting. Get my tailor in here,
like I said, Okay, and command mister Robert MSUs Conways
ready for you now, Yes.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yes, of course, this will only take a minute. Mister Conway.
I just want you to slip the coat on.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Let me get a quick look, all right, help me
into it, will you.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
That's it out. Careful of the larning. It's only basted.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Uh what about uh? What about these lapels? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Oh, I've got them pinned back. But the latest thing,
mister Conway, I made so look I saw some lapels
this wide, say you out there here shop.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
That's the way I want them.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
But this type of garment, never mind, I know what
I want, of course, mister Conway, I don't watch out.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
What are you trying to do it?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Get away, mister Conway. I look at this pen sticking
right out with the pin what take this thing off me?
I don't want the suit your here. Throw out the
ash can. He's going to a lot of hay him off.
Get him out of here.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
I don't want to hear it anymore. Better robbers, But
the material he said to pay you off not come on?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Well all right, mister Kebby the way, I hate you
do business.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
It's all right to see you later, Rubber. Don't worry
about it, Frank, I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
You don't have to but it was only a pin
the poor guy it No, I won't. A few days
ago was a pair of scissors that upset you, and
last week was an ordinary candle.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
But I thought I made it clear, Kirby, you don't
have to see anything.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
But we're friends. I don't know you well enough to
but you don't. Nobody knows me that. Well, let's forget it.
I got other things to attend to.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
It doesn't add up for me, Frank listening into your
own wife's phone calls.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Shut up with you?
Speaker 9 (14:52):
Hello, Hello, Lauria, Hello, Alan?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
This is it all right?
Speaker 8 (14:56):
Alan? I have the money for you.
Speaker 9 (15:00):
Oh swell uh, Look, I don't want you to think
I was in a.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Hurry for it.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
Oh the money isn't important, you know that.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I know.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
Say uh, I was thinking I might go out of
town for the weekend. Oh it'll be all.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Right with you?
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Is it awfully important?
Speaker 9 (15:17):
Well, there'sn't a matter of life and death.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
You know how I feel, Alan about your being here.
It means so much to me just to know that
you're around.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
I understand. I.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
I don't want you to get the idea that I
think I can own you a bore or No, Now
you know why I got you a room right here
in the hotel.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
Yes, I know. Forget it. I'll stick around, would you.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
Oh that's perfect?
Speaker 9 (15:40):
Uh uh By the way that reminds me, I moved
to a better room this morning. I'm in room fourteen
thirty eight. Better jot it down, Room fourteen thirty eight.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
I'll remember.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Mmm.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
I'll be in till after six that I'm gonna have
dinner at Luigi's.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
Fine. I'll meet you there if I can slip away
from a party we're going to, and I'll have the
money for you.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
Okay, by now, goodbye?
Speaker 6 (16:07):
A dirty little double crosser. What is it, Frank?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
What they talking about?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
She belongs to me, Kirby? Do you understand me? Frank?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
You're upset? You better talk upset. Oh No, I'm not, Kirby.
I'm just as calm as i'll have to be. You're
looking for this What did gun? What's got into you?
Haven't touched a gun in all the years I've been
with Herby, I keep telling you this is a personal affair,
very personal.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
You're talking foolish. That's hoodlum.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Stop listen.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
If this thing has to be done, I can drop
a word. No, buddy, Kirby, Frank, you can't do this
is crazy, Kirby, you can't stop me. Caesar's wife, do
you remember? Should be about suspicion? I get Judge Faulkner
in here.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
It's been an hour. He's probably gone get him.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
No, you can't talk to him now, not when you're
in this frame of mind.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Okay, Kirby, I'll get him myself. Judge and I are
going to have a little talk.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Come, I name your runner. Sorry to keep you waiting
so long.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
That's all right, Frank. I was perfectly comfortable. Oh good,
you know Kirby Morton, don't you, Judge, Yes, we've met.
Sit down, Sit down, Judge. I'll fix your drink. Oh no, thanks,
I just dropped by. Thank you for the way everything
worked out. Oh no, it's my pleasure, your honor. It's
some beautifully handled, Frank, beautifully hand We try to keep
things running smooth. I figure you'll be an I said, Judge.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
To the people and to me.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I should say so anything I can ever do. Frank,
I'm glad we understand one another. It cuts out a
good deal of unnecessary conversation. Right yeah, Judge Faultner, I
think we should have a little celebration, you know, nothing,
fancy maybe a quiet dinner delighted. Yeah, say it's your
house tonight. I'm sure missus Faulkner will be honored. Good
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good about six o'clock six, Why I think that can
be arranged. It is arranged, and Judge, yeah, I'm going
to be late. I quite understand. Well, that's one thing
you'll ever have to quite understand as far as you're
concerned and your wife, Judge, I arrived at six shop.
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But I, Frank, you're you're my friend that I do
anything for you only if I got into any mix
ups at this be no.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Mix up for you from now on, Judge. Just do
as you're told.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, I think I understand a dot of six stayed on.
You're a smart guy, Judge, both on and off the bench.
And now, Judge Faulkner, you better run along, hey, work
things out with missus Faulkner.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
You know the ladies, they like to plan their social activity.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
He is, of course. Well I'll be running along, and
good day, mister Martin, and see you tonight, Frank right
at six.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Judge, for an alibi that it's going to be Frank.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Yeah, Kirby that's exactly the way it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Well, it's a good thing you found use for him
so soon?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
You guys who won't take long for the people to
find out he's a phony apple, he's thrown out of office.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
He won't be much used to you.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Now, Look, Kirby, if you're trying to stop me, Oh no, Frank,
I no better than that.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
You made your decision. Nothing I can say. I'll stamp
you now.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yes, Frank, you've made your decision, haven't you, And you
lose little time in completing the arrangements. Gloria isn't going
to have any trouble slipping out, No, because you want
it that way. You want her to keep her appointment
at Luigi's be waiting for the man who will never appear.
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It's almost six o'clock before you're alone with Glory, and
it isn't easy to think of the brutal thing you're
going to do. Gloria is so beautiful, isn't she, Frank?
As she sits in a mirror combing her hair, she
seems so devoted, so innocent. You're getting dressed kind of
early tonight, aren't you, Gloria, mm hmm.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
You don't mind if I spend a little extra time
making myself beautiful for you, do you, Dory?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
No, now, I I've always wanted you to make yourself
beautiful for me.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Frank, what's the matter?
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Your sound?
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Well?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Strange?
Speaker 8 (20:35):
Is something bothering you, Darling?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Something on your mind?
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Nothing that can't be cleared up, Gloria. I think that
after the night everything will be all right again.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Frank, what do you mean? You're not taking any chances
if anything ever happened to you, Darling?
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Good what honey?
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Will you know how much I love you?
Speaker 6 (20:58):
I think I do. I think I know even better
than you, Gloria, whatever it is, dear, you will be careful, Promise, eh,
I promise I'll be extra careful, sweetheart.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yes, Frank, After to night, everything will be all right again,
and you'll be careful because it means so much to
both of you, so much to the future.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
That's what's in your mind.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
You wait quietly until a little before six, and then
let yourself out of the suite. The corridor outside is deserted,
and you walked swiftly to the automatic elevator, press the
button for the fourteenth floor, riding down. You patched gently
at the gun, nestled in its holster under your coat.
It's going to be quick in business like, isn't it, Frank.
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No time for a dangerous struggle, smooth the way you've
always run things. At Room fourteen thirty eight, you slip
a paskey into the lock and let yourself in quietly.
He's singing in the other room. Silently.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
You move in toward him.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You can see him standing in front of the mirror,
fixing his tie.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
He's pleased with himself.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Isn't he, Frank, even picking up his drink, holding it
up as if toasting himself in the mirror, toasting his
good fortune.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I'd enjoy that drink if I were you, Ellen, go
on as good away as any to die enjoying a
last drink. Conway, that's right, mister Conway, not missus.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
What's the matter. What are you talking about? Sorry, Ellan,
I'm all through talking. No, wait, you don't know what
you're doing.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
He stumbles, and as he falls towards you, the glass
in his hand smashes against the barrel of your gun.
You step back quickly and stare at the back of
your hand. A red gash Frank, a chance cut by
Alan's glass shatter against your gun. You stare at it horrified,
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because there it is, Frank, the answer to your unusual personality,
your big secret emophilia, the weakness you've guarded so faithfully
from everyone but your personal physician. Yes, Frank, the smallest
cutter scratch can kill you. That you bleed to death.
It's a thing that's kept you away from violence, isn't it.
(23:24):
Frank forced you to have things done smoothly, businesslike, because
a tiny accident like this can cost your life.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
No hope, Oh breed today. I gotta get help. Gotta
get help.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
When you hear about someone else's winning a big prize
in a contest by writing a few simple words, you've
probably said I could have written something that good. Of
course you could. But the important thing is to enter
the contest. Don't keep putting it off, but enter Signals
big ten thousand dollars contest now, because two hundred happy
people are going to win some wonderful prizes just for
(24:11):
writing twenty five words or fewer. But the angry bride
on the signal gasoline billboard might be shouting at the groom.
That's all there is to the Signal Contest, no purchases required,
no boxtops to send in, And in addition to the buick,
there are one hundred ninety nine other valuable awards such
as a three piece Apex automatic laundry, O'Keefe and Merit
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gas ranges, solid gold case, helbros, wristwatches, vacuum cleaners, and
pop up toasters by Westinghouse. And best of all, your
chances of winning are good. Because this is not a
national contest. Only entries mailed on official entry blanks from
the six signaled states California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada and
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Arizona are eligible to win. So don't just wish you
had entered this contest. Get in line for those big
prizes by getting into the Signal Contest now. Entry blanks, remember,
are free, no purchases required at any signal service station.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
So the murder of the young man in the gray suit,
Alan Roberts went off exactly as you planned it, Frank,
and he's lying dead now on the floor of room
fourteen thirty eight where you left him. More than that,
when the investigation is held, Judge Faulkner himself will be
ready to tell the police. You were at his home
having dinner at the time of the killing. But one
(25:40):
little fact, the thing you couldn't have figured on a thing.
It would have made no difference to almost anyone, but you,
has turned it all into a nightmare. Yes, Frank, the
man you killed happened to be holding a half empty
drinking glass in his hand when you fired, and as
he fell towards you, his glass crashed against your gun,
cutting the back of your hand, a cut that can
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be as disastrous as final as a bullet in the head.
An hour later, back in your private suite, you can't
understand why Manheim, your private physician, is so common.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Will you hurry up? Doc? Take it easy, Frank, what
do you mean take it easy? You gotta do something. Listen, Frank,
you must try to relax. All we have to do
is wait a little while, wait a little while. You're crazy. Listen,
I know what can happen to me. I know about homophilia.
I've been reading about it all my life. But it's
not going to happen.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
You're right, and you don't know how lucky you are.
You need more than an ordinary transfusion. You're you're a
very rare type. And if we had to look for
your type of blood in a hurry, we we knew
we'd never have a chance.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
We Gloria and I. Gloria, she doesn't know, but she
does know.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
Frank, I thought it was better to tell her. It
was she who That's what I'm waiting for. Yes, is
this Manheim?
Speaker 4 (26:54):
What?
Speaker 6 (26:55):
What's that? Good Lord? What are you saying? Yes? Yes,
I know what's that? Frank, I I don't know how
to tell you? This?
Speaker 7 (27:10):
Tell me what the the man Gloria had moved into
the hotel, the one she hired just to be near
you all the time, the one in a million with
the type of blood that matches yours.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Gloria hired a man, Yes.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Alan Roberts. Oh no, no, he's dead. Frank murdered. They
just found him down in his room down in fourteen
thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Let that whistle be your signal. Each Sunday for the
Signal Oil program the Whistler, and this week be sure
to enter Signals Big ten thousand dollars contest. Two hundred
Valuable prizes include a new Buick Apex automatic laundry frigid
are refrigerator, electric range, or home freezer. Packard Bell, television set, o'keefen, Merritt,
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gas Range, and many others. Just ask at your nearest
Signal service station for an official entry blank. It's free,
no purchase required. Featured in Tonight's story were Bill Foreman,
Gerald Moore, Willard Waterman, and viv Jannis. The Whistler was
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produced and directed by George w Allen, with story by
David Victor and Herbert Little, 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.
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Remember at the same time next Sunday, another strange tale
by the Whistler Marvin Miller, speaking for the Signal Oil
Company is the CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System
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