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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The Signal Oil program.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
The whistler.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
That whistle is your signal for the Signal Oil program.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
The whistler, I am the whistler, and I know many things.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
For I walk by night.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of
men and women who.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Have stepped into the shadows.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare
not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yes, friends, it's time for the Signal Oil program. The
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And now the Whistler. Strange story decision, it would.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Have it's been far more logical had it happened in
the springtime in April, perhaps with the rhododendrons blooming in
Golden Gate Park, the kids playing ball in the green lawns,
and the maple trees coming to life again. Yes, Spring
and San Francisco would have helped explain part of it,
but the rest would always be beyond logic and common sense.
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It wasn't springtime. It was November, with Christmas just around
the corner, A cold, gray day with the steam sizzling
and the radiators. As he sat near the window of
his office on the twentieth floor of the Hamilton Building
looking at an uninspiring assortment of X rays of Missus
Harrison's chest.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Cavity, excuse me, doctor Evans, mumm, oh, yes, miss Cardon.
Missus Harrison called again about the X rays.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Well, there's nothing wrong with her heart. All she needed
some fresh air. Shall I tell her that? No, I
suppose I'll have to find her a disease with twenty letters,
will call her.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
And there was another call from a Missus John Cameron. Cameron,
can you see her to day?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Is it important? When she says so, yes, they all do,
all right, make it twelve thirty. What about lunch? I'll
have to skip it. Missus Cameron's heart is undoubtedly more
important than my lunch.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And you noted it down in the book simply twelve thirty,
Missus John Cameron. Later, when you had a chance to think.
You decided, if it hadn't happened so suddenly, it might
not have happened at all.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Perhaps that was part of it, Paul.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
The suddenness, the way it threw you off balance. But
more than that, it was a black haired girl with
blue eyes standing by the window. When you looked up
from your X rays a half hour later, you remember
exactly how she looked, the turquoise dress with a gold
belt and clip, the smart little felt hat accenting her
dark hair, making you realize in a split second what
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was wrong with all the girls? Your new You must
have come in while you sat at the film illuminator
looking at negatives and making notes.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Evident moat insufficiency, mine of valve your illsion, Doctor Evans,
All right, I'll be with you in a moment. Request
the tale, cardiograph, the media here. We are just get
rid of this stuff. Please sit down now. What can
I do for for? Hello?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Doctor?
Speaker 6 (04:29):
I'm Carol Cameron.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Carol Cameron. The my nurse said you were rather concerned
about yourself.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Oh no, no, it's it's it's not about myself. It's
about my husband. Oh I see John Cameron.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Perhaps you've heard of him, stocks and bonds, isn't he Yes.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Yes, a few too many for his own good. I'm
afraid he's he's been under a terrible strain recently, and
night before last he had a rather severe attack his heart. Yes, yes,
doctor Miles. Our family physicians suggested that I see you
about it.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
I see well, tell me where is your husband now?
Speaker 6 (05:13):
At home in bed?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Didn't doctor Miles recommend a hospital?
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Well, John's awfully unreasonable. He wouldn't hear of it. Insisted
that he'd be up and around in a day or two.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
That is unreasonable.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
You'll you'll see him.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Yes, yes, of course, I'll be glad to do what
I can.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Just like that fall a minute or so and she's gone.
You look up, you see her, And thirty seconds later
she could ask if you'd mind going to the North
Pole for her, and you'd tell her you'd be glad
to All afternoon, you try to shrug it off, tell
yourself it's fantastic that this is the sot of thing
that keeps you away from second rate movies. But that
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evening when you call on John Cameron, it's still there.
Lucinda Withers, the housekeeper, is waiting outside the door. After
you finish your examination.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Oh, where is missus Cameron Lucinda?
Speaker 7 (06:16):
She went out for a moment, sir, tell me. Is
it serious?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Yes, I'm afraid it is.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
I knew it. I could see it coming on. He's
like a son to me. Doctor. I've been with the
family for twenty years now, since way before she came.
I see, he was never like this before.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Oh what do you mean by that?
Speaker 7 (06:34):
She's not good for him. She worries him, makes him nervous,
keeps him thinking about the fifteen years between them.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Yes, well, I'll have a prescription sent over in the morning.
I better be going on. My taxi is waiting outside.
You just keep him as quiet as you can and
i'll check him again tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Very well, doctor, Oh.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Doctor v oh just a minute.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I I wondered what happened to you. I was just
about to go. I left instructions with the housekeeper.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
How is he?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
And Gina Pectress sits it's quite serious.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Oh, he hasn't been taking very good care of himself.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
He's got to now, I see.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Well, must you go right away?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Yes, I'm afraid i'd better. My taxi is waiting. Well,
I thought it was waiting. Doesn't seem to be there now,
that's odd. I told him to wait. I didn't even
pay him.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
I I'd be glad to take you. Understand, the car
is right down at the curb.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Oh no, no, no, no, I couldn't there. I only take
a minute to call an.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Old No, it's really no trouble. All right, I'll get
my coat. There you are, doctor, right to the door.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
It was awfully nice of you, missus Cameron. Well, I uh,
I guess the next thing to do is let's get
out just a minute.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
I I want to tell you I lied about the taxi.
I told him to go. Why because I wanted to
take you home?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Why.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
I'm very flattered, that's all.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
I just wanted to tell you.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
It's it's happened to you too, hasn't it. Oh yes,
Look there's a friend of mine, a doctor Andrews. He's
an awful good heart man. I'm sure he'll take the case.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Please please don't do that.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
What else can I do? It's only going to make
it worse.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
I know you.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
You just can't throw away what's happened to us, can you?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
It'd be wrong, it'd be wrong to do anything else.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Car is that what we're here for, To spend our
lives looking for something that isn't there and then to
suddenly find it.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Please, Carol, well.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Shall we forget it?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
I I'll be around tomorrow with the prescription.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So that's how it started, Paul.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yes, it was easy to analyze it, to list a
million reasons why it was wrong. What the trouble was
that when you were all through analyzing it was still there,
stronger than ever. You visit John Cameron the next day
and the day after that, and before you know it,
the days have grown into weeks, and the damp November
night you arranged to meet her secretly at a little
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French cafe.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
On Washington Street leads to.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
A lot more of them, the two of you at
the little corner table. Henry reserves especially, not saying much,
hardly realizing how the time it's flown. That tomorrow is
the day before Christmas. You know that's one of my
favorite Christmas hymns. It's beautiful, Yes, Christmas day after tomorrow.
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It's hard to realize it.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
You're happy, Carol, happy and miserable.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Well did you expect anything else?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
No, no, no, I knew it was going to be
this way, Paul. It's just that I feel so helpless, and.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
I'm glad you came to night, Carol, because because I'm
afraid this is going to.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Be the last time.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Oh, Paul, don't you see how impossible it all is.
We're both beating our heads against the stone wall. You're
absolutely right, Carol, we are helpless because I see it.
The only thing we can do is try to be
square with ourselves. Honestly, it just won't work any other way.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
No, I suppose not. John will probably hang on like
this for years.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Yes he might, if he's careful.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
You know, Paul. It's terrible to feel this way. I
just can't help it, Paul. I almost wish he'd no. No,
it's true.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
It's true.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I never loved him, Paul. My family thought he'd be
good for me. I didn't want any part of it.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
I know, I know, my dear. You don't have to
tell me.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
He's unhappy and he's sick and he's miserable and it
will always be that way.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Why should he be, Carol? Now this is going to
be the last time. I mean it. I can get
doctor Andrews on the case next week. Look at me, Carol, Oh,
it's going to work out somehow, the right way.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Will you believe that, all right, Paul, if you say so.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yes, Paul, it was the only thing to do, the
honorable thing, approved one by the Medical Association. But it
doesn't help you sleep that night, and it doesn't help
the next day when you make your regular call on
John Cameron, examine him, find him the same, leave his
prescription bottle with Carrol and gold.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yes, it had to end.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Paul, because you are both beginning to think the thing
that Carol almost said at the restaurant that you both
wish John would die. And then at ten o'clock that night, hello.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
Doctor Evans. Yes you must come at once, doctor mister Cameron.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I'll be right over Lucinda. Now listen carefully. There's a
bottle of amyl nitrate in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom,
break up a tablet in a handkerchief and make him inhale.
It is that clear.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
It's too late for that doctor. I'm afraid he's dead.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
With the prolog of decision, the Signal Oil Company is
bringing you another strange story by the whistler. Just remember
these two points. If you want to be sure of
the tops in gasoline quality. One in gasoline it takes
extra quality to go farther. And two signal is the
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famous go farther gasoline. And now back to the whistler.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
So it finally happened, Paul, John Cameron is dead. But
it hasn't affected you as you thought it would. There
was something so sudden about it. It happens room after
you and Carol had decided to call it off, after
she'd almost said what you'd both been thinking, Yes, there's
something wrong with it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
It just feels wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
That's why, after you've examined him, you turned to Lucinda.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Lucinda, yes, doctor, you were here when it happened.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Yes, missus. Cameron had given him his medicine and gone
to bed.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
I heard him call, Yes, what happened? Then?
Speaker 7 (14:27):
He'd been violently sick, said his throat was burning.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Broad whisper or you must be mistaken.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
No, sir, and he was all doubled up with cramps.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Wrong, you must be it's the truth, sir. Did you
give him anything? O?
Speaker 7 (14:41):
It was my night out and I'd only just cut
him when.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Excuse me a minute, Well, Paul, don't go in there.
There's nothing you can do now.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
I know, well it's over. Oh, Carol, don't say anything, Paul.
I don't want to talk about it, to think about
it anymore.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Ever, we've got to think about it.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I know, I know. You don't have to tell me.
He was all right this morning, just as well as
could be expected. All right, Carol, what happens now?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
I no, I won't say anymore, but you know what's ahead.
I guess of course.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
I'll be all right.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
It's just you. You better go to bed if you
need some rest. I'll take care of everything.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
It's almost midnight when you get back to the office
and take the prescription bottle out of your pocket, the
one you took from Carol's medicine cabinet. You forget to
take off your hat and overcoat as you throw a
few pieces of laboratory equipment together, dissolve the powder in
water and make a test, A simple.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Test, bio siren.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I knew it poison. Well, Paul. It's quite a decision,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
You look down at the blank death certificate on your
desk until the letters burn into your brain and you
can see them when.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
You close your eyes.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
It's the most important decision you'll ever have to make Paul,
is that.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
What we're here for, To spend our lives looking for
something that isn't there, and then to suddenly find.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
It throw it away.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Two o'clock three four. All you can do is sit
and stare at the desk, trying to think it through.
Your medical certificate's on one wall, democratic oath in a
neat black frame on the other. Six o'clock seven eight,
And then your nurse arrives.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Why doctor, you've been here all night.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Yes, it's Cameron.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
He's dead.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Well, it was only a matter of time.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Yes, yes, I guess it was.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I'll make out the certificate death from natural causes, and
Gina Petre is acute, yes doctor?
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Oh oh nothing, Hello Carol, Yes, Paul, I've just filled
out the death certificate heart disease.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Yes. Do do you think that'll investigate?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Got to be.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Careful, awfully careful. I will poisoned. Isn't easy to cover up, Carol.
They'll find it in a second if they ever get suspicious.
Now listen, I'll send the certificate over this morning. If
nobody gets curious during the next week, I think we'll
be safe, all right, Paul. We mustn't be seen together
under any circumstances. I don't want you even to telephone
me if you can possibly help it. Okay, Uh, that's
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all that. Good luck, Darling.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
Hello Evans, Well, hello Miles. How are you a little
puzzled at the moment? But I drop in for a minute.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
I certainly have a chair.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
Thanks. It's about Cameron. I've had a rather distressing experience.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Oh.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
I've been their family doctor for some time. Of course,
I didn't know missus Cameron before she married John some
years ago, but I've always thought her a rather charming person,
which she seems to be. Yes, you you know her
pretty well, Paul.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Well naturally in attending her house.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Do you think she's a woman of character?
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Yes, yes, I'd say so so.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
I Mis Lucinda Withers, however, seems to think.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
She's a murderous that's what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
The woman was completely confusing a lot of rambling, disconnected
remarks that seem to imply that you and missus Cameron
were in love.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Well, as you said, miss Withers seems to be confused.
Speaker 9 (19:28):
Yes, and I just thank Paul that you ought to
do something about miss Withers. You know as well as
I that this sort of thing can ruin you.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Hello, hello Carol, Yes, misten darling, you've got to get
with us out of town. Yeah, I know it'll make
it look worse, but it's the only thing we can do. Now,
where's the family? I know? Well, that's good. Tell her
she needs a rest anything. I know it sounds crazy,
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but it's better than sitting around waiting for the axe
to fall. Well, that's it. Good luck, darling.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You're walking on thin ice, Paul. You can almost hear
it cracking under your feet, and it seems to be
getting thinner. The funeral on Thursday and Friday, Saturday, and
the cinders still in town. Carol was right, It only
made it worse to try and get her to leave.
You're just waiting now. It's only a matter of time
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and then bright and early Monday morning.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Oh doctor, I'm Willard Stephens. Howt you too? I'm afraid
I I'm John Cameron's cousin. Flew up from New York.
I see I have a rather delicate problem on my hands.
I hope you'll understand. I'll try to. But John's death,
I had a letter from him indicating he planned to
make certain changes in his will arrive just a day
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or two before he died. Does that suggest anything to you?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Know?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
I'm afraid it doesn't. You naturally ascribed his death to
his heart condition. Yes, naturally. I realize it would be
embarrassing for me to contest your diagnosis. I'm hoping you'll
work with me, and in what I had to talk
with Miss Withers the night I arrived. He's a meddlesome
old fool. Oh how did you know? Doctor Miles told me.
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Does that answer your question? It answers that question. I
assume you have others. Indeed I have, and I'm afraid doctor,
there's only one way to answer them. What's that? An
exhumation and an autopsy?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Now that sit, Paul, It's all over, isn't it. The
autops they will undoubtedly be tomorrow, and after that, of course,
there'll be a trial.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
The next decision is easy, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It would be useless to try and run away, would
never lead to anything. You and Carol could never find
happiness with an axe hanging over your heads. So the
next day, during the autopsy, you sit at home quietly
in the chair by the phone, waiting for it to ring.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Hello, Hello, darling.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
It is the autopsy over.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Yes, so waiting downstairs to take me to the corner's
office for the report. Now listen to me, Paul, Would
you do me a favor anything?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Carol?
Speaker 8 (22:39):
Will you leave? Now?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Leave?
Speaker 5 (22:42):
What do you mean?
Speaker 8 (22:42):
Look, if it's going to happen, there's no reason for
it for happening to both of us.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
That's about the most ridiculous thing you ever said. Please listen,
Go with.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Them, Carol.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
I'll be down there in an hour. Carol, there's only
one thing in the world right now. When that's gone,
I don't want to be here anymore.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
I hope you to say that.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
You'll keep your chin up, Darling. I'll see you in
no now. Yes, I'm doctor Evans. Oh, yes, this.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
Way all right, Lieutenant there he is.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Make him admitted. He's in love with her. It's been
going on.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I said, yes a minute.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
How about that doctor.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
It's written all over his face.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
He's in love with her, all right, all right, I
am in love with missus Cameron. So what.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
The whistler will return in just a moment with a
strange ending Tonight's story. Meantime, all of the people in
the signal oil company as well as signal dealers, and
we of the Whistler cast wish you a very merry
Christmas and a new year brim full of good health,
good cheer, good luck, and now back to the Whistler.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
So you stand there, Paul, shouting to the high heavens
that you're in love with Carol, With all of them
clustered around you like vultures. It doesn't seem to matter anymore,
does it. In spite of your love for Carol, you
know that sooner or later your sense of responsibility would
have forced you to tell the whole story. There's a
long silence, and then the police lieutenant slowly he walks
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over to loosen the Withers.
Speaker 10 (25:03):
All right, miss Withers, Now that we're all here, maybe
you'll tell us why you tried to frame missus Cameron.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Hi, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 10 (25:11):
On April fifth, you bought one hundred grains of fire
scion at the Black and White Farmacy on a Farrell
Street ride.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Hi, I did no such thing, Sion.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
Evelyn Jones on the regis, says the woman. Mister Thorson, that's.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
The woman, And I make a practice of remembering the
faces of people who buy poison.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Excuse me, I think I'd like to sit up.
Speaker 10 (25:30):
Sure, doctor, take a chair over there, now, Miss Withers,
why did you try to frame missus Cameron? Why did
you put poison in the medicine? You knew she had
to give him.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I didn't, I didn't do don't lie to me.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Now. What did you do with the bottle?
Speaker 7 (25:46):
I didn't do anything with it. I left it in the.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Oh you did have the bottle? Huh?
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Why did you try to frame missus Cameron?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Why did you try to frame her?
Speaker 6 (25:57):
She killed him?
Speaker 10 (25:58):
She killed him justice surely, as if she put the
poison in the bottle instead of you.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
That's it, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
She didn't love him, she never did. He was as
good as dead.
Speaker 10 (26:06):
So you thought you had finished the job. And hanging
around her neck.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Lieutenant, I must see missus Cameron.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Where is she in the next room?
Speaker 10 (26:12):
Lying down? Go ahead, Doctor Evans, Ah, Miss Withers, I'm
gonna take this all down right, Carol.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
You're looking for missus Cameron.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Yes, the LIEUTENANTCYR Evans, Yes, I am. Well.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Missus Cameron's gone, but she asked me to give you
a message, and she said, she was waiting for you
at the French restaurant on Washington Street.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
She said, you'd know the place.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Oh, yes, thank you, I know the place, Carol. Oh
cal here. It is the same table as before.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
And we said it would never happen again.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Yes, the nerve of us saying what will and won't happen?
Speaker 6 (26:58):
We were fools.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
I was the fool thinking all the time.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
That you'd kill I know, but you had every reason
when I think how I acted after it happened, But
I thought it was you. You gave me his prescription
that morning, and an hour after I gave it to him,
he was dead.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
We were both wrong. It was Lucinda who killed him.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
She thinks she did. They say they'll have a better
case against her if they let her confess it first
before they tell her.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Tell her what, Paul.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
When you brought the new prescription that morning, the old
bottle was still half Paul, and that's the one she
put the poison in. That's the way it happened, Paul.
You see, you see, Darling, I used the new bottle
the night he died. That's why I was so sure
you did.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Prescription was perfectly all right. There was nothing it was.
I was so sure he was poisoned though symptoms.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Cinda was lying Paul about the burning in his throat
and the cramps.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
Don't you see then.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
The autopsy was okay, there was no murder.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
No, there was no murder, Paul. You see, Darling, your
diagnosis was correct. John died of natural causes, just as
you said on the certificates.
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Speaker 3 (01:59):
Have it's been far more logical had it happened in
the springtime in April, perhaps with the rhododendrons blooming in
Golden Gate Park, the kids playing ball in the green lawns,
and the maple trees coming to life again. Yes, Spring
and San Francisco would have helped explain part of it,
but the rest would always be beyond logic and common sense.
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It wasn't springtime. It was November, with Christmas just around
the corner, A cold, gray day with the steam sizzling
and the radiators. As he sat near the window of
his office on the twentieth floor of the Hamilton Building
looking at an uninspiring assortment of X rays of Missus
Harrison's chest.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Cavity, excuse me, doctor Evans, mumm, oh, yes, miss Cardon.
Missus Harrison called again about the X rays.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Well, there's nothing wrong with her heart. All she needed
some fresh air. Shall I tell her that? No, I
suppose I'll have to find her a disease with twenty letters,
will call her.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
And there was another call from a Missus John Cameron. Cameron,
can you see her to day?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Is it important? When she says so, yes, they all do,
all right, make it twelve thirty. What about lunch? I'll
have to skip it. Missus Cameron's heart is undoubtedly more
important than my lunch.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And you noted it down in the book simply twelve thirty,
Missus John Cameron. Later, when you had a chance to think.
You decided, if it hadn't happened so suddenly, it might
not have happened at all.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Perhaps that was part of it, Paul.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
The suddenness, the way it threw you off balance. But
more than that, it was a black haired girl with
blue eyes standing by the window. When you looked up
from your X rays a half hour later, you remember
exactly how she looked, the turquoise dress with a gold
belt and clip, the smart little felt hat accenting her
dark hair, making you realize in a split second what
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was wrong with all the girls? Your new You must
have come in while you sat at the film illuminator
looking at negatives and making notes.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Evident moat insufficiency, mine of valve your illsion, Doctor Evans,
All right, I'll be with you in a moment. Request
the tale, cardiograph, the media here. We are just get
rid of this stuff. Please sit down now. What can
I do for for? Hello?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Doctor?
Speaker 6 (04:29):
I'm Carol Cameron.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Carol Cameron. The my nurse said you were rather concerned
about yourself.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Oh no, no, it's it's it's not about myself. It's
about my husband. Oh I see John Cameron.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Perhaps you've heard of him, stocks and bonds, isn't he Yes.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Yes, a few too many for his own good. I'm
afraid he's he's been under a terrible strain recently, and
night before last he had a rather severe attack his heart. Yes, yes,
doctor Miles. Our family physicians suggested that I see you
about it.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
I see well, tell me where is your husband now?
Speaker 6 (05:13):
At home in bed?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Didn't doctor Miles recommend a hospital?
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Well, John's awfully unreasonable. He wouldn't hear of it. Insisted
that he'd be up and around in a day or two.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
That is unreasonable.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
You'll you'll see him.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Yes, yes, of course, I'll be glad to do what
I can.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Just like that fall a minute or so and she's gone.
You look up, you see her, And thirty seconds later
she could ask if you'd mind going to the North
Pole for her, and you'd tell her you'd be glad
to All afternoon, you try to shrug it off, tell
yourself it's fantastic that this is the sot of thing
that keeps you away from second rate movies. But that
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evening when you call on John Cameron, it's still there.
Lucinda Withers, the housekeeper, is waiting outside the door. After
you finish your examination.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Oh, where is missus Cameron Lucinda?
Speaker 7 (06:16):
She went out for a moment, sir, tell me. Is
it serious?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Yes, I'm afraid it is.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
I knew it. I could see it coming on. He's
like a son to me. Doctor. I've been with the
family for twenty years now, since way before she came.
I see, he was never like this before.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Oh what do you mean by that?
Speaker 7 (06:34):
She's not good for him. She worries him, makes him nervous,
keeps him thinking about the fifteen years between them.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Yes, well, I'll have a prescription sent over in the morning.
I better be going on. My taxi is waiting outside.
You just keep him as quiet as you can and
i'll check him again tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Very well, doctor, Oh.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Doctor v oh just a minute.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I I wondered what happened to you. I was just
about to go. I left instructions with the housekeeper.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
How is he?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
And Gina Pectress sits it's quite serious.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Oh, he hasn't been taking very good care of himself.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
He's got to now, I see.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Well, must you go right away?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Yes, I'm afraid i'd better. My taxi is waiting. Well,
I thought it was waiting. Doesn't seem to be there now,
that's odd. I told him to wait. I didn't even
pay him.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
I I'd be glad to take you. Understand, the car
is right down at the curb.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Oh no, no, no, no, I couldn't there. I only take
a minute to call an.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Old No, it's really no trouble. All right, I'll get
my coat. There you are, doctor, right to the door.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
It was awfully nice of you, missus Cameron. Well, I uh,
I guess the next thing to do is let's get
out just a minute.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
I I want to tell you I lied about the taxi.
I told him to go. Why because I wanted to
take you home?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Why.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
I'm very flattered, that's all.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
I just wanted to tell you.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
It's it's happened to you too, hasn't it. Oh yes,
Look there's a friend of mine, a doctor Andrews. He's
an awful good heart man. I'm sure he'll take the case.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Please please don't do that.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
What else can I do? It's only going to make
it worse.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
I know you.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
You just can't throw away what's happened to us, can you?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
It'd be wrong, it'd be wrong to do anything else.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Car is that what we're here for, To spend our
lives looking for something that isn't there and then to
suddenly find it.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Please, Carol, well.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Shall we forget it?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
I I'll be around tomorrow with the prescription.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So that's how it started, Paul.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yes, it was easy to analyze it, to list a
million reasons why it was wrong. What the trouble was
that when you were all through analyzing it was still there,
stronger than ever. You visit John Cameron the next day
and the day after that, and before you know it,
the days have grown into weeks, and the damp November
night you arranged to meet her secretly at a little
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French cafe.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
On Washington Street leads to.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
A lot more of them, the two of you at
the little corner table. Henry reserves especially, not saying much,
hardly realizing how the time it's flown. That tomorrow is
the day before Christmas. You know that's one of my
favorite Christmas hymns. It's beautiful, Yes, Christmas day after tomorrow.
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It's hard to realize it.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
You're happy, Carol, happy and miserable.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Well did you expect anything else?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
No, no, no, I knew it was going to be
this way, Paul. It's just that I feel so helpless, and.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
I'm glad you came to night, Carol, because because I'm
afraid this is going to.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Be the last time.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Oh, Paul, don't you see how impossible it all is.
We're both beating our heads against the stone wall. You're
absolutely right, Carol, we are helpless because I see it.
The only thing we can do is try to be
square with ourselves. Honestly, it just won't work any other way.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
No, I suppose not. John will probably hang on like
this for years.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Yes he might, if he's careful.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
You know, Paul. It's terrible to feel this way. I
just can't help it, Paul. I almost wish he'd no. No,
it's true.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
It's true.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I never loved him, Paul. My family thought he'd be
good for me. I didn't want any part of it.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
I know, I know, my dear. You don't have to
tell me.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
He's unhappy and he's sick and he's miserable and it
will always be that way.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Why should he be, Carol? Now this is going to
be the last time. I mean it. I can get
doctor Andrews on the case next week. Look at me, Carol, Oh,
it's going to work out somehow, the right way.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Will you believe that, all right, Paul, if you say so.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yes, Paul, it was the only thing to do, the
honorable thing, approved one by the Medical Association. But it
doesn't help you sleep that night, and it doesn't help
the next day when you make your regular call on
John Cameron, examine him, find him the same, leave his
prescription bottle with Carrol and gold.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yes, it had to end.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Paul, because you are both beginning to think the thing
that Carol almost said at the restaurant that you both
wish John would die. And then at ten o'clock that night, hello.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
Doctor Evans. Yes you must come at once, doctor mister Cameron.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I'll be right over Lucinda. Now listen carefully. There's a
bottle of amyl nitrate in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom,
break up a tablet in a handkerchief and make him inhale.
It is that clear.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
It's too late for that doctor. I'm afraid he's dead.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
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Speaker 3 (13:49):
So it finally happened, Paul, John Cameron is dead. But
it hasn't affected you as you thought it would. There
was something so sudden about it. It happens room after
you and Carol had decided to call it off, after
she'd almost said what you'd both been thinking, Yes, there's
something wrong with it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
It just feels wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
That's why, after you've examined him, you turned to Lucinda.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Lucinda, yes, doctor, you were here when it happened.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Yes, missus. Cameron had given him his medicine and gone
to bed.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
I heard him call, Yes, what happened? Then?
Speaker 7 (14:27):
He'd been violently sick, said his throat was burning.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Broad whisper or you must be mistaken.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
No, sir, and he was all doubled up with cramps.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Wrong, you must be it's the truth, sir. Did you
give him anything? O?
Speaker 7 (14:41):
It was my night out and I'd only just cut
him when.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Excuse me a minute, Well, Paul, don't go in there.
There's nothing you can do now.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
I know, well it's over. Oh, Carol, don't say anything, Paul.
I don't want to talk about it, to think about
it anymore.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Ever, we've got to think about it.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I know, I know. You don't have to tell me.
He was all right this morning, just as well as
could be expected. All right, Carol, what happens now?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
I no, I won't say anymore, but you know what's ahead.
I guess of course.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
I'll be all right.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
It's just you. You better go to bed if you
need some rest. I'll take care of everything.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
It's almost midnight when you get back to the office
and take the prescription bottle out of your pocket, the
one you took from Carol's medicine cabinet. You forget to
take off your hat and overcoat as you throw a
few pieces of laboratory equipment together, dissolve the powder in
water and make a test, A simple.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Test, bio siren.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I knew it poison. Well, Paul. It's quite a decision,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
You look down at the blank death certificate on your
desk until the letters burn into your brain and you
can see them when.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
You close your eyes.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
It's the most important decision you'll ever have to make Paul,
is that.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
What we're here for, To spend our lives looking for
something that isn't there, and then to suddenly find.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
It throw it away.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Two o'clock three four. All you can do is sit
and stare at the desk, trying to think it through.
Your medical certificate's on one wall, democratic oath in a
neat black frame on the other. Six o'clock seven eight,
And then your nurse arrives.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Why doctor, you've been here all night.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Yes, it's Cameron.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
He's dead.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Well, it was only a matter of time.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Yes, yes, I guess it was.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I'll make out the certificate death from natural causes, and
Gina Petre is acute, yes doctor?
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Oh oh nothing, Hello Carol, Yes, Paul, I've just filled
out the death certificate heart disease.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Yes. Do do you think that'll investigate?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Got to be.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Careful, awfully careful. I will poisoned. Isn't easy to cover up, Carol.
They'll find it in a second if they ever get suspicious.
Now listen, I'll send the certificate over this morning. If
nobody gets curious during the next week, I think we'll
be safe, all right, Paul. We mustn't be seen together
under any circumstances. I don't want you even to telephone
me if you can possibly help it. Okay, Uh, that's
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all that. Good luck, Darling.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
Hello Evans, Well, hello Miles. How are you a little
puzzled at the moment? But I drop in for a minute.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
I certainly have a chair.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
Thanks. It's about Cameron. I've had a rather distressing experience.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Oh.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
I've been their family doctor for some time. Of course,
I didn't know missus Cameron before she married John some
years ago, but I've always thought her a rather charming person,
which she seems to be. Yes, you you know her
pretty well, Paul.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Well naturally in attending her house.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Do you think she's a woman of character?
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Yes, yes, I'd say so so.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
I Mis Lucinda Withers, however, seems to think.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
She's a murderous that's what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
The woman was completely confusing a lot of rambling, disconnected
remarks that seem to imply that you and missus Cameron
were in love.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Well, as you said, miss Withers seems to be confused.
Speaker 9 (19:28):
Yes, and I just thank Paul that you ought to
do something about miss Withers. You know as well as
I that this sort of thing can ruin you.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Hello, hello Carol, Yes, misten darling, you've got to get
with us out of town. Yeah, I know it'll make
it look worse, but it's the only thing we can do. Now,
where's the family? I know? Well, that's good. Tell her
she needs a rest anything. I know it sounds crazy,
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but it's better than sitting around waiting for the axe
to fall. Well, that's it. Good luck, darling.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You're walking on thin ice, Paul. You can almost hear
it cracking under your feet, and it seems to be
getting thinner. The funeral on Thursday and Friday, Saturday, and
the cinders still in town. Carol was right, It only
made it worse to try and get her to leave.
You're just waiting now. It's only a matter of time
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and then bright and early Monday morning.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Oh doctor, I'm Willard Stephens. Howt you too? I'm afraid
I I'm John Cameron's cousin. Flew up from New York.
I see I have a rather delicate problem on my hands.
I hope you'll understand. I'll try to. But John's death,
I had a letter from him indicating he planned to
make certain changes in his will arrive just a day
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or two before he died. Does that suggest anything to you?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Know?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
I'm afraid it doesn't. You naturally ascribed his death to
his heart condition. Yes, naturally. I realize it would be
embarrassing for me to contest your diagnosis. I'm hoping you'll
work with me, and in what I had to talk
with Miss Withers the night I arrived. He's a meddlesome
old fool. Oh how did you know? Doctor Miles told me.
(21:33):
Does that answer your question? It answers that question. I
assume you have others. Indeed I have, and I'm afraid doctor,
there's only one way to answer them. What's that? An
exhumation and an autopsy?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Now that sit, Paul, It's all over, isn't it. The
autops they will undoubtedly be tomorrow, and after that, of course,
there'll be a trial.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
The next decision is easy, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It would be useless to try and run away, would
never lead to anything. You and Carol could never find
happiness with an axe hanging over your heads. So the
next day, during the autopsy, you sit at home quietly
in the chair by the phone, waiting for it to ring.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Hello, Hello, darling.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
It is the autopsy over.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Yes, so waiting downstairs to take me to the corner's
office for the report. Now listen to me, Paul, Would
you do me a favor anything?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Carol?
Speaker 8 (22:39):
Will you leave? Now?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Leave?
Speaker 5 (22:42):
What do you mean?
Speaker 8 (22:42):
Look, if it's going to happen, there's no reason for
it for happening to both of us.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
That's about the most ridiculous thing you ever said. Please listen,
Go with.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Them, Carol.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
I'll be down there in an hour. Carol, there's only
one thing in the world right now. When that's gone,
I don't want to be here anymore.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
I hope you to say that.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
You'll keep your chin up, Darling. I'll see you in
no now. Yes, I'm doctor Evans. Oh, yes, this.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
Way all right, Lieutenant there he is.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Make him admitted. He's in love with her. It's been
going on.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I said, yes a minute.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
How about that doctor.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
It's written all over his face.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
He's in love with her, all right, all right, I
am in love with missus Cameron. So what.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
The whistler will return in just a moment with a
strange ending Tonight's story. Meantime, all of the people in
the signal oil company as well as signal dealers, and
we of the Whistler cast wish you a very merry
Christmas and a new year brim full of good health,
good cheer, good luck, and now back to the Whistler.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
So you stand there, Paul, shouting to the high heavens
that you're in love with Carol, With all of them
clustered around you like vultures. It doesn't seem to matter anymore,
does it. In spite of your love for Carol, you
know that sooner or later your sense of responsibility would
have forced you to tell the whole story. There's a
long silence, and then the police lieutenant slowly he walks
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over to loosen the Withers.
Speaker 10 (25:03):
All right, miss Withers, Now that we're all here, maybe
you'll tell us why you tried to frame missus Cameron.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Hi, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 10 (25:11):
On April fifth, you bought one hundred grains of fire
scion at the Black and White Farmacy on a Farrell
Street ride.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Hi, I did no such thing, Sion.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
Evelyn Jones on the regis, says the woman. Mister Thorson, that's.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
The woman, And I make a practice of remembering the
faces of people who buy poison.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Excuse me, I think I'd like to sit up.
Speaker 10 (25:30):
Sure, doctor, take a chair over there, now, Miss Withers,
why did you try to frame missus Cameron? Why did
you put poison in the medicine? You knew she had
to give him.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I didn't, I didn't do don't lie to me.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Now. What did you do with the bottle?
Speaker 7 (25:46):
I didn't do anything with it. I left it in the.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Oh you did have the bottle? Huh?
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Why did you try to frame missus Cameron?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Why did you try to frame her?
Speaker 6 (25:57):
She killed him?
Speaker 10 (25:58):
She killed him justice surely, as if she put the
poison in the bottle instead of you.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
That's it, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
She didn't love him, she never did. He was as
good as dead.
Speaker 10 (26:06):
So you thought you had finished the job. And hanging
around her neck.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Lieutenant, I must see missus Cameron.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Where is she in the next room?
Speaker 10 (26:12):
Lying down? Go ahead, Doctor Evans, Ah, Miss Withers, I'm
gonna take this all down right, Carol.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
You're looking for missus Cameron.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Yes, the LIEUTENANTCYR Evans, Yes, I am. Well.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Missus Cameron's gone, but she asked me to give you
a message, and she said, she was waiting for you
at the French restaurant on Washington Street.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
She said, you'd know the place.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Oh, yes, thank you, I know the place, Carol. Oh
cal here. It is the same table as before.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
And we said it would never happen again.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Yes, the nerve of us saying what will and won't happen?
Speaker 6 (26:58):
We were fools.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
I was the fool thinking all the time.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
That you'd kill I know, but you had every reason
when I think how I acted after it happened, But
I thought it was you. You gave me his prescription
that morning, and an hour after I gave it to him,
he was dead.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
We were both wrong. It was Lucinda who killed him.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
She thinks she did. They say they'll have a better
case against her if they let her confess it first
before they tell her.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Tell her what, Paul.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
When you brought the new prescription that morning, the old
bottle was still half Paul, and that's the one she
put the poison in. That's the way it happened, Paul.
You see, you see, Darling, I used the new bottle
the night he died. That's why I was so sure
you did.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Prescription was perfectly all right. There was nothing it was.
I was so sure he was poisoned though symptoms.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Cinda was lying Paul about the burning in his throat
and the cramps.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
Don't you see then.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
The autopsy was okay, there was no murder.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
No, there was no murder, Paul. You see, Darling, your
diagnosis was correct. John died of natural causes, just as
you said on the certificates.
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