October 7, 2025 • 30 mins
The Whistler was a suspenseful mystery anthology that ran from 1942-1955. A character known only as the Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate and had a suspenseful and eerie tone, always ending with a twist. The Whistler was later adapted to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
And now stay tuned for the mystery program that is
unique among all mystery programs, because even when you know
who is guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at
the final curtain. In the Signal Oil program, the Whistler signal,
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the famous go Father Gasoline invite you to sit back
and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
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.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Have stepped into the shadows.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare
not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's strange
story designed for murder.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
The trio and the big car weaving its way through
the evening traffic, seemed typical of almost any group on
the way to a railroad station. Charles Gilbert at the
wheel was responding patiently to the nervous admonitions of his
wife Edden from the rear seat. His wife's close friend,
Myrene Walker, chatted ceaselessly. Charles Gilbert, on the other hand,
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seemed lost in thought, patient resignation. All very typical as
they pulled up the railroads and stepped out.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Of the car.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Charles, let me run on ahead for you.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Check out his ticket, would you, Myrine. I'll get someone
to take the suitcases.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Oh, it's all such a bother.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I wish I was staying ho as you're not, so
forget it. We'll meet you inside, my rainge the cocktail bar.
You heard how she wished she were going.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
She likes to travel. I don't, Charles, you know that.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Never mind, Now it's all arranged. You need the rest
a red gap, yes, these three bangs? Oh yes, sir,
the limited car seventy nine space. Be here you are,
Thank you, sir. Come along, Edna, we'll drop in here.
Have a drink while we're waiting. Ah, let's just relax. Huh,
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wait for mine.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I wish you weren't so anxious to have me out
of town, Charles, at a time when the business needs me.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
So nonsense over here, Myrene, here Dolan, everything's in order
with your tickets.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
It's too bad.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
How do you like that, Myrine? She doesn't want to go,
thinks the jewelry business will go to pot. Think her
husband plans a rendezvous with another woman. For Heaven's sake.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Buy a drake, Charles, you could buy me one too, Waiter,
if you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
We're dying of thirst.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Doo's gotch and sodas here myrae hie and anything. Just
bring it this man.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Now we'll all feel better. I'd feel better if I
knew why you can't go along, Charles.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I told you ed now'll be busy. Also, I want
you to go along. You'll rest more, and you do
need it. Look at her my ing, not able to
keep her hand still doodling on the menu. She's always
doodling on something.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Give me that pencil ed now, Sorry, it's a design
I was thinking of for a piece of costume jewel.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Well, stop thinking of anything like that. And since it's
going to bother you, I'll tell you exactly what I'm
going to be doing, Dear. It was to be a surprise,
a surprise. We talked about a beach house, remember on
Little Rock Point.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I remember talking about.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It, and I've bought one. Oh, a beautiful place, completely
surrounded by trees, a good half mile from the main
road and a quarter of a mile from the nearest neighbor.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Hidden away like that.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I don't see how you find.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Your way up there. It's easy to get there. Here.
I'll draw you a diagram to show you exactly where
it is. Once you know where it is, you can
find it blindfolded if you follow these directions.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Yes you can.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I'm having it remodeled inside.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Just oh, Charles, you aren't.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I am well, don't be too grateful. It's mostly your money.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Oh, I don't care. It's the thought, Charles. I feel
much better about the trip.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Now you do.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Then give me a handkerchief.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Look at it, Marry the shreds Edna.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
When she's not doodling, she's tearing up her handkerchief. She's
got to be doing something every minute, and she wonders
why I wanted to rest. Oh good, and get working
on three more? Please, my dear, you're going to relax
or I'll know the reason why.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
I'll try. Now we'd better get to the train.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, Charles, Edna's gone, and after my reen leaves you,
you hurry back to the cocktail lounge. Inside you go
directly to a corner boot slip in beside someone who's
been waiting for you. Not too patient.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I'm sorry, Helen Darling.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
I am too sorry that we have to practice this deception, Charles.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yess me, that was nice, dear, but we we ought
to be more careful in public. We really shouldn't be
here yet.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Stop worrying here. I ordered you a drink.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Oh, and I can use it. Ah. Well, at least
we'll have some time together uninterrupted.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
You're sure Edna will be staying away for a while.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
She's gone for a month.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
It wasn't fun watching you kiss you good bye.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I know some day I hope it look. I want
you to see the new place I bought it, Little
Rock Point. I'll pick you up and drive you down
there to morrow. Or uh, maybe it would be better
if you came in your car and met me.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
There a Little Rock Point that sounds wonder Oh it.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Is, you'll love it, I've er I've been using quite
a few of your ideas and redecorating the place. Can
you make it by two? Yes? I'll tell you exactly
how to get there.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Helen's an exciting girl, isn't she, Charles? And when you
reach your apartment building you have difficulty getting around the same.
Good night to her, and only the thought of seeing
her again the next day at the beach house at
Little Rock Point. Finally, makes it possible. It's quite late.
When you finally arrive at your own home and let
yourself into the house, you're scarcely inside when.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Sir, that thing.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Irene, Yes, Marie, I like to come in, Charles, I
want to talk to you. Of course, it comes straight
to the point about one. And that little number you
met in the cocktail lounge wasn't a very pretty syche Charles.
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You kiss her right after bidding Edna goodbye?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Oh why uh one?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Good?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
That girl Helen an old friend, that's right, someone you
knew before you ever met Edna.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Why, that's exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You just won't leave you alone.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You're positive, I'm not psychic.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
You're not nearly as slick as you think you are.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Child.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I wonder Edna's a bundle of nerves.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
You're not going to say anything to Edna about this.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Depends on you. And I suppose you made any dates
for the future with this.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I certainly not.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Charles.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
You weren't kidding when you made that remark about Edna's money.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
That's pretty easy.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Since becoming her business manager and now her husband has.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Been a pleasant arrangement, if that's what you mean. When
naturally I love it, I hope you mean that this
girl means nothing. I swear I'll not see her again. Look,
in a few days, you and Arthur dropped down to
the place at the little Rock Point. You'll see all
that I'm doing for Edna. I'll take you around the place.
We can relax, go for a swim.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I don't swim, Charles. And when my best friend's husband
starts two timing her, I don't feel like relaxing either.
I've told you, I heard you, and I've told you, Charles,
stay away from that.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
Girl, you know. Friends.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
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Speaker 2 (10:31):
It's going badly, isn't it. Charles Marine knows about your girlfriend.
Helen knows that it was more than husbandly concerned that
prompted you to encourage your wife, Edna to leave town
on a vacation a rescure for her nervousness. Marene has
always been Edna's best friend, and she'll tell her the
truth if you don't do something to reassure her that
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you don't intend to see Helen again. You wish you
hadn't made the date with Helen for the following afternoon
at the Beech House, that little rock Point, and after
she arrives, you're very nervous all the time that she's
there with you.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
What is it, Charles, You haven't heard anything I said?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Oh yes I have. Helen it's just but I'm a
little jumpy.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
I thought. With your wife out of town.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Helen, we've got to talk about that. It isn't as
perfect as it seems.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
A friend of Edna's a Mareene Walker. She knows about.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Us, knows what about us, well.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Not everything, of course. She thinks it's a casual thing,
that we're all friends happen to run into one another.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
And if she continues to see us together, that's.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Right, she'll go to Edna. Helen. We've got to forget
about it for a while.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Forget about it.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
But you know, I really don't mean that exactly.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
I should hope not. You promised me you were going
to talk to Edna ask for a divorce.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I know, and I intend to. But it can't be
right away, Helen. I have my reasons right now. It's
important that you believe that they were not seen together.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
All right, Charles, I won't need a second invitation.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Wait a minute, I've waited long enough as it is quite
long enough.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Good Bye, Charles, what hell ano?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Good Bye Charles.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
She's gone, isn't she childs And only a few moments
later you hear her car start up, roar away and
you're alone, alone in the house that you were supposed
to be remodeling for your wife, Edna, and the rest
of the afternoon drags by. You find yourself hating the
place and you'll always hate it unless somehow soon the
house can be yours and Helen's just how you're going
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to bring that about isn't quite clear to you yet?
Is it how you'll get rid of your wife?
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Edna?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
That evening, as you're sitting alone, wishing you return to town,
you're still thinking about it when suddenly you're aware of
a noise outside.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Well, well, this is a surprise. A child snooping around?
Were you.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
All right.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
That?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
If you want?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
You're wasting your time? Really, I'm quite alone, are you?
Of course? Come on in, my rine, I'd like to
show you around the place.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Like a child caught at the cookie jar. My Rine
follows you inside. She's nervous, skill at ease, avoid your
gaze as you show her about the house. And then
finally the two of you end up at the boat landing.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Well, what do you think of it?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
A nice child?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
The candle like it?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
No, I don't. This isn't the sort of house Edna
would like to do.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
It just doesn't suit her personality. Let's say, really, I'm
sure there is no thing here that would interest her
outside of that unusual painting.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You're really nice, isn't it impressionistic? I believe they call
that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
To me, it looks like a dragon about to devour
or something that is.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
The painting of a dragon. But then the likes offbeat
things like dragons. I bought it especially for her. Surprised.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Oh really, child.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Just what does that mean?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
May I be blunt? You agree you didn't buy this
house for Edna?
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Does Helen move in?
Speaker 10 (14:23):
Now?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
See here? Myrine?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
You see here?
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Glamorous plays, Charles, exciting should just match her baby blue eyes?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Wrene, you're not pooling.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
You for one minute. You won't fool Edna either.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
She's going to know all about this.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
You're not going to tell her about Helen was my
best marine. I think I've had just about enough of
your meddling, Charles, wait just about enough, stay away from
me to ring your neck. Your little snoop, Charles, show.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
You reached out to grab Myrene as she tripped, but
you're too late, and she plunged off the end of
the boat, landing Jo about me. Ye, Well, you'll stand
there staring down at her struggling in the water. She
can't swim, childs, she'll drown if you don't help her.
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And you don't help.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Her, do you, child?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You're glad the house is isolated, aren't your childs? Yes,
you're certain no one except the late marine walker knows
you've been here, but you decide to hurry back to
your home in town establish a reasonable alibi. Two hours later,
you're back in your house in town, where you nervously
awake the phone call you're certain you'll receive.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Hello Gilbert, Yes, this.
Speaker 11 (15:53):
Is Frank Stanley over on the east shore. What are
your neighbors a little rock point?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Oh? Yes, yes, missus Stanley.
Speaker 11 (15:59):
What called yourself? Except I had the devil's own time
getting hold of your phone number up there in town.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
What is it? Something wrong? Well?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah, a woman.
Speaker 11 (16:07):
Drowned off the island a few hours ago.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
What's then?
Speaker 11 (16:10):
Yep, a you're probably more. He's found a person on
your boat landing. The other fighter is a marine.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Walker, myrine, Will you do more? Yes, yes, she's a
very dear friend of my wife.
Speaker 11 (16:25):
Urbly sorry, mister Gilbert.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Probably wouldn't have happened. If I had been out there,
I planned to, but business kept me here in town.
Myrene must have come out to visit us, wanted a
run on the dock, and.
Speaker 11 (16:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's sort of the way I figured it too.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Well.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Thank you for calling, mister Stanley. I'll get in touch
with my wife right away.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
You smile, don't you, Charles, as you hang up the receiver.
It's all over now. Myrene is dead.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
You could have saved her, but you didn't.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
And you couldn't have Marene telling your wife about Helen,
could you. Later that day, you send a wired ed
at the resort, inform her that you have some bad news.
Ask her to return immediately, And that evening you decide
to go back to the house on Little Rock Point.
Perhaps take a walk along the beach see if you
can learn news of the local reaction the Myrenes drowning.
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As you hurry up the path, you're startled to see
a light burning in the living room.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Helen.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yes, she's probably paid you a surprise visit.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Good evening. Child found the key under the mat, So
I came on in. I've been waiting.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Hours for you, but I don't understand. I sent the
telegram only a few hours ago.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Telegram must have missed me. I left humor this morning.
But why yes, perhaps this letter will explain Marene. Marene
is her letter told me all about your little friend Helen.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Wouldn't lie at night.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
You needn't bother to deny it.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
You've got to let me explain.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Let's drop the matter here and now you see, Charles,
I've thought it over very carefully. I have decided to
forgive you.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Forgive me.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Yes, I'm really much more to blame for Helen than you.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Well, perhaps I drove you to her. I haven't been
a very good wife, Charles, more than a little neglectful,
thinking too much about business and not enough about us home,
our marriage.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Well, we haven't been as close in the past few
years as we used to be. Edna.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Yes, yes, I know, I know, and it's all my fault.
I'm willing to forget all this, Charles, but of course
you must forget Helen. Of course, fix me drink, will you?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I could use one, all right, I could use one myself.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Yes, you've said something about a color.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh yes, yes, well bad news. I'm afraid it's it's
about marine Apparently she came out here last night while
I was in town, and while she was wandering around
outside in the dark, she she fell off the boat landing.
She yes, she drowned. An't I at least recovered her
body this morning? Oh easy, now, Darling. It's a terrible shock,
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I know. Yeah, this will help. If I'd been here,
I don't suppose it would have happened. At least the
lights on the boat landing would have been on. Wait
a moment.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
You said you were in town.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yes, at the house all evening, But you weren't.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
You weren't at the house in town. I know because
I called you from a resort half a dozen times.
There was no answer.
Speaker 9 (19:41):
But I tell you, where were you last night? Where
were you when Marene had her accident? Answer me, listen,
you were here when marine came. She knew about Helen.
You were afraid she'd tell me.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
You didn't know. She already sent me this letter, did you?
Did you?
Speaker 8 (19:56):
All right?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
All right?
Speaker 5 (19:57):
So I was here and Myrene's death wasn't so accidentally.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Wait a minute, where are you going to Edna? Listen,
I can't have anything to do with Marene's death. You've
got to believe me it was an accident.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
We'll let the police decide.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Now you let go.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
You're not going to the police.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Joy, don't look at me like that, were you?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Edna?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
She's fainted, hasn't she? Child fainted and crumpled to the
floor at your feet. And you know as you stared
down at her, that you had murder in mind in
your heart as you stared at her. And it is nover,
is it?
Speaker 8 (20:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
You can't let her go to the police with her story, Charles,
And looking down at Edna lying unconscious before you, the
thought suddenly occurs to you. It's a way out, isn't
it a way out for you and Helen? Quickly you
pick up the folditeet of paper the letter Marine wrote
to Edna, stuffing into your pocket. Then you carry Edna outside,
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place her in the car she drove down, drive it
into the garage, and close the garage doors, leaving the
motor running. Wait an hour later, and it's all over.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Later, you drive.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Edna's body back to town in her car, put the car
in your garage again, leave the motor running as you
close the garage doors. Now all you need to do
is return to the beach house. And wait for Edna's
body to be found in the garage. Knowing Edna as
you do, you are certain she told no one of
her return from Uma, and you're sure no one saw
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at the house at Little Rock Point. But you know
you must get back there before her body is discovered.
You take a bus back to the beach house next morning,
walked a half mile to the home of your nearest neighbor,
mister Stanley.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Oh, good morning, mister Gilbert.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Good morning, mister Stanley. I wonder if I might use
your phone? Sure sure ours hasn't been installed.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
She was too bad about through the lady the drowned,
wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Yes, it's going to be a terrible shock for my wife.
Almost afraid to tell her they were very close. Oh
you mean she doesn't know yet. Well, my wife is
vacationing at a desert resort. I sent her a wire
yesterday after you called me asking her to come home,
but I haven't heard a word from her.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Rather worried. Sure, sure you are. There's a phone over there,
a couple of steles.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Thank you, Hello operator, I'm calling the Shadow Hills Ranch, Humor, Arizona. Yes,
that's right, Thank you. I'm terribly sorry to barge in
on you like this, mister Stanley.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Oh, it's all right, quite all right.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
It's just that I'm so concerned about my wife ed
and I I can't understand why she hasn't no lived
or even answers my wire. It isn't like it.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yes, oh h he number is nine too. I'm calling
from Harbor nine to nine. Operator. Yes, Hello, the Shadow
Hills Ranch is missus Charles Gilbert. There, This is mister Gilbert.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
What.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Oh yeah, yes, I see, thank you.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
There is something wrong, mister Gilbert.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
He said she left the ranch yesterday morning. She was
on her way back to town. I can't understand where is she.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
I'm mister Gilbert. No need to get all worried. She'ld
turn out.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Who Something is wrong, I know it. I'd better call
the police.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Well sure, make you feel any better?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Anything's happened to my wife, mister Stanley, I don't know
what I do. I just don't know.
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Speaker 2 (25:17):
You've carried it off very well, haven't you.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Childs The role of.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
The worried husband concerned over his wife's whereabouts, and your
phone call to the police brings quick results. An hour later,
the sheriff calls on you at the house on Little
Rock Point quietly informs you of your wife's death carbon
monoxide in the garage of your home in town. You
continue to play the part now of the grief stricken husband,
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inwardly are pleased. Certain your performance has more than convinced
the sheriff. Then he's about.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
To leave you.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Oh, mister Gilbert, you said you were alone.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Here last night. Yes, yes, that's right. I waited all
night for my wife to sure.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
Are you sure she didn't?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Of course, now you'd never set foot in this USA.
Bought it only a few days ago, shortly before she
went on a vacation. I say, why you asked. I
was just looking at the painting of that dragon. Impressionistic stuff,
isn't it. Yeah, yes, that's right.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
I understand your wife was always drawing.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
Quite a doodler.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Yes, she doodle constantly, did, just a nervous habitat. I
was sort of wondering about that dragon. Picture looks very familiar.
It's an original. I had it sent out from New York.
That sure is different. It was a present for my wife.
Never got to see it.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
He wasn't with you when you bought it.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
No, you didn't even know it existed.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Maybe you'd better look at this.
Speaker 10 (26:47):
Letter an empty envelope rest to your wife at Yoma
from myrin Walker. Pout it your wife's purse from the
post mark. She must have gotten it the same day
she left Yoma.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Well what about her turn it over?
Speaker 10 (27:03):
All?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Right? Whatever?
Speaker 10 (27:05):
So your wife didn't even know of the existence of
that dragon painting, mister Gilbert.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yes, you also said she wasn't here at Little Rock
Point yesterday. Yes I did.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
And you've got a lot of explaining to do, mister Gilbert.
The doodling on this envelope your wife had is an
excellent copy of.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
That dragon painting. I think we can prove it your
wife's doodling, mister Gilbert.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil program.
The whistler each Sunday night at the same time, and
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booklet prepared by an independent travel organization to help you
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at the same time next Sunday when the Signal Oil
Company will bring you another strange story by the Whistler.
Marvin Miller speaking for the Signal Oil Company. Stay tuned
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And now stay tuned for the mystery program that is
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who is guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at
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the famous go Father Gasoline invite you to sit back
and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
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.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Have stepped into the shadows.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare
not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's strange
story designed for murder.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
The trio and the big car weaving its way through
the evening traffic, seemed typical of almost any group on
the way to a railroad station. Charles Gilbert at the
wheel was responding patiently to the nervous admonitions of his
wife Edden from the rear seat. His wife's close friend,
Myrene Walker, chatted ceaselessly. Charles Gilbert, on the other hand,
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seemed lost in thought, patient resignation. All very typical as
they pulled up the railroads and stepped out.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Of the car.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Charles, let me run on ahead for you.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Check out his ticket, would you, Myrine. I'll get someone
to take the suitcases.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Oh, it's all such a bother.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I wish I was staying ho as you're not, so
forget it. We'll meet you inside, my rainge the cocktail bar.
You heard how she wished she were going.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
She likes to travel. I don't, Charles, you know that.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Never mind, Now it's all arranged. You need the rest
a red gap, yes, these three bangs? Oh yes, sir,
the limited car seventy nine space. Be here you are,
Thank you, sir. Come along, Edna, we'll drop in here.
Have a drink while we're waiting. Ah, let's just relax. Huh,
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wait for mine.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I wish you weren't so anxious to have me out
of town, Charles, at a time when the business needs me.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
So nonsense over here, Myrene, here Dolan, everything's in order
with your tickets.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
It's too bad.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
How do you like that, Myrine? She doesn't want to go,
thinks the jewelry business will go to pot. Think her
husband plans a rendezvous with another woman. For Heaven's sake.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Buy a drake, Charles, you could buy me one too, Waiter,
if you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
We're dying of thirst.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Doo's gotch and sodas here myrae hie and anything. Just
bring it this man.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Now we'll all feel better. I'd feel better if I
knew why you can't go along, Charles.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I told you ed now'll be busy. Also, I want
you to go along. You'll rest more, and you do
need it. Look at her my ing, not able to
keep her hand still doodling on the menu. She's always
doodling on something.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Give me that pencil ed now, Sorry, it's a design
I was thinking of for a piece of costume jewel.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Well, stop thinking of anything like that. And since it's
going to bother you, I'll tell you exactly what I'm
going to be doing, Dear. It was to be a surprise,
a surprise. We talked about a beach house, remember on
Little Rock Point.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I remember talking about.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It, and I've bought one. Oh, a beautiful place, completely
surrounded by trees, a good half mile from the main
road and a quarter of a mile from the nearest neighbor.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Hidden away like that.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I don't see how you find.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Your way up there. It's easy to get there. Here.
I'll draw you a diagram to show you exactly where
it is. Once you know where it is, you can
find it blindfolded if you follow these directions.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Yes you can.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I'm having it remodeled inside.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Just oh, Charles, you aren't.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I am well, don't be too grateful. It's mostly your money.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Oh, I don't care. It's the thought, Charles. I feel
much better about the trip.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Now you do.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Then give me a handkerchief.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Look at it, Marry the shreds Edna.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
When she's not doodling, she's tearing up her handkerchief. She's
got to be doing something every minute, and she wonders
why I wanted to rest. Oh good, and get working
on three more? Please, my dear, you're going to relax
or I'll know the reason why.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
I'll try. Now we'd better get to the train.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, Charles, Edna's gone, and after my reen leaves you,
you hurry back to the cocktail lounge. Inside you go
directly to a corner boot slip in beside someone who's
been waiting for you. Not too patient.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I'm sorry, Helen Darling.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
I am too sorry that we have to practice this deception, Charles.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yess me, that was nice, dear, but we we ought
to be more careful in public. We really shouldn't be
here yet.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Stop worrying here. I ordered you a drink.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Oh, and I can use it. Ah. Well, at least
we'll have some time together uninterrupted.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
You're sure Edna will be staying away for a while.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
She's gone for a month.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
It wasn't fun watching you kiss you good bye.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I know some day I hope it look. I want
you to see the new place I bought it, Little
Rock Point. I'll pick you up and drive you down
there to morrow. Or uh, maybe it would be better
if you came in your car and met me.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
There a Little Rock Point that sounds wonder Oh it.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Is, you'll love it, I've er I've been using quite
a few of your ideas and redecorating the place. Can
you make it by two? Yes? I'll tell you exactly
how to get there.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Helen's an exciting girl, isn't she, Charles? And when you
reach your apartment building you have difficulty getting around the same.
Good night to her, and only the thought of seeing
her again the next day at the beach house at
Little Rock Point. Finally, makes it possible. It's quite late.
When you finally arrive at your own home and let
yourself into the house, you're scarcely inside when.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Sir, that thing.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Irene, Yes, Marie, I like to come in, Charles, I
want to talk to you. Of course, it comes straight
to the point about one. And that little number you
met in the cocktail lounge wasn't a very pretty syche Charles.
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You kiss her right after bidding Edna goodbye?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Oh why uh one?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Good?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
That girl Helen an old friend, that's right, someone you
knew before you ever met Edna.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Why, that's exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You just won't leave you alone.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You're positive, I'm not psychic.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
You're not nearly as slick as you think you are.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Child.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I wonder Edna's a bundle of nerves.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
You're not going to say anything to Edna about this.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Depends on you. And I suppose you made any dates
for the future with this.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I certainly not.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Charles.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
You weren't kidding when you made that remark about Edna's money.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
That's pretty easy.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Since becoming her business manager and now her husband has.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Been a pleasant arrangement, if that's what you mean. When
naturally I love it, I hope you mean that this
girl means nothing. I swear I'll not see her again. Look,
in a few days, you and Arthur dropped down to
the place at the little Rock Point. You'll see all
that I'm doing for Edna. I'll take you around the place.
We can relax, go for a swim.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I don't swim, Charles. And when my best friend's husband
starts two timing her, I don't feel like relaxing either.
I've told you, I heard you, and I've told you, Charles,
stay away from that.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
Girl, you know. Friends.
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Speaker 2 (10:31):
It's going badly, isn't it. Charles Marine knows about your girlfriend.
Helen knows that it was more than husbandly concerned that
prompted you to encourage your wife, Edna to leave town
on a vacation a rescure for her nervousness. Marene has
always been Edna's best friend, and she'll tell her the
truth if you don't do something to reassure her that
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you don't intend to see Helen again. You wish you
hadn't made the date with Helen for the following afternoon
at the Beech House, that little rock Point, and after
she arrives, you're very nervous all the time that she's
there with you.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
What is it, Charles, You haven't heard anything I said?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Oh yes I have. Helen it's just but I'm a
little jumpy.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
I thought. With your wife out of town.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Helen, we've got to talk about that. It isn't as
perfect as it seems.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
A friend of Edna's a Mareene Walker. She knows about.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Us, knows what about us, well.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Not everything, of course. She thinks it's a casual thing,
that we're all friends happen to run into one another.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
And if she continues to see us together, that's.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Right, she'll go to Edna. Helen. We've got to forget
about it for a while.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Forget about it.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
But you know, I really don't mean that exactly.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
I should hope not. You promised me you were going
to talk to Edna ask for a divorce.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I know, and I intend to. But it can't be
right away, Helen. I have my reasons right now. It's
important that you believe that they were not seen together.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
All right, Charles, I won't need a second invitation.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Wait a minute, I've waited long enough as it is quite
long enough.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Good Bye, Charles, what hell ano?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Good Bye Charles.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
She's gone, isn't she childs And only a few moments
later you hear her car start up, roar away and
you're alone, alone in the house that you were supposed
to be remodeling for your wife, Edna, and the rest
of the afternoon drags by. You find yourself hating the
place and you'll always hate it unless somehow soon the
house can be yours and Helen's just how you're going
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to bring that about isn't quite clear to you yet?
Is it how you'll get rid of your wife?
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Edna?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
That evening, as you're sitting alone, wishing you return to town,
you're still thinking about it when suddenly you're aware of
a noise outside.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Well, well, this is a surprise. A child snooping around?
Were you.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
All right.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
That?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
If you want?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
You're wasting your time? Really, I'm quite alone, are you?
Of course? Come on in, my rine, I'd like to
show you around the place.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Like a child caught at the cookie jar. My Rine
follows you inside. She's nervous, skill at ease, avoid your
gaze as you show her about the house. And then
finally the two of you end up at the boat landing.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Well, what do you think of it?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
A nice child?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
The candle like it?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
No, I don't. This isn't the sort of house Edna
would like to do.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
It just doesn't suit her personality. Let's say, really, I'm
sure there is no thing here that would interest her
outside of that unusual painting.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You're really nice, isn't it impressionistic? I believe they call
that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
To me, it looks like a dragon about to devour
or something that is.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
The painting of a dragon. But then the likes offbeat
things like dragons. I bought it especially for her. Surprised.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Oh really, child.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Just what does that mean?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
May I be blunt? You agree you didn't buy this
house for Edna?
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Does Helen move in?
Speaker 10 (14:23):
Now?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
See here? Myrine?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
You see here?
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Glamorous plays, Charles, exciting should just match her baby blue eyes?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Wrene, you're not pooling.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
You for one minute. You won't fool Edna either.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
She's going to know all about this.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
You're not going to tell her about Helen was my
best marine. I think I've had just about enough of
your meddling, Charles, wait just about enough, stay away from
me to ring your neck. Your little snoop, Charles, show.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
You reached out to grab Myrene as she tripped, but
you're too late, and she plunged off the end of
the boat, landing Jo about me. Ye, Well, you'll stand
there staring down at her struggling in the water. She
can't swim, childs, she'll drown if you don't help her.
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And you don't help.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Her, do you, child?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You're glad the house is isolated, aren't your childs? Yes,
you're certain no one except the late marine walker knows
you've been here, but you decide to hurry back to
your home in town establish a reasonable alibi. Two hours later,
you're back in your house in town, where you nervously
awake the phone call you're certain you'll receive.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Hello Gilbert, Yes, this.
Speaker 11 (15:53):
Is Frank Stanley over on the east shore. What are
your neighbors a little rock point?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Oh? Yes, yes, missus Stanley.
Speaker 11 (15:59):
What called yourself? Except I had the devil's own time
getting hold of your phone number up there in town.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
What is it? Something wrong? Well?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah, a woman.
Speaker 11 (16:07):
Drowned off the island a few hours ago.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
What's then?
Speaker 11 (16:10):
Yep, a you're probably more. He's found a person on
your boat landing. The other fighter is a marine.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Walker, myrine, Will you do more? Yes, yes, she's a
very dear friend of my wife.
Speaker 11 (16:25):
Urbly sorry, mister Gilbert.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Probably wouldn't have happened. If I had been out there,
I planned to, but business kept me here in town.
Myrene must have come out to visit us, wanted a
run on the dock, and.
Speaker 11 (16:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's sort of the way I figured it too.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Well.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Thank you for calling, mister Stanley. I'll get in touch
with my wife right away.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
You smile, don't you, Charles, as you hang up the receiver.
It's all over now. Myrene is dead.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
You could have saved her, but you didn't.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
And you couldn't have Marene telling your wife about Helen,
could you. Later that day, you send a wired ed
at the resort, inform her that you have some bad news.
Ask her to return immediately, And that evening you decide
to go back to the house on Little Rock Point.
Perhaps take a walk along the beach see if you
can learn news of the local reaction the Myrenes drowning.
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As you hurry up the path, you're startled to see
a light burning in the living room.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Helen.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yes, she's probably paid you a surprise visit.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Good evening. Child found the key under the mat, So
I came on in. I've been waiting.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Hours for you, but I don't understand. I sent the
telegram only a few hours ago.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Telegram must have missed me. I left humor this morning.
But why yes, perhaps this letter will explain Marene. Marene
is her letter told me all about your little friend Helen.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Wouldn't lie at night.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
You needn't bother to deny it.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
You've got to let me explain.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Let's drop the matter here and now you see, Charles,
I've thought it over very carefully. I have decided to
forgive you.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Forgive me.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Yes, I'm really much more to blame for Helen than you.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Well, perhaps I drove you to her. I haven't been
a very good wife, Charles, more than a little neglectful,
thinking too much about business and not enough about us home,
our marriage.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Well, we haven't been as close in the past few
years as we used to be. Edna.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Yes, yes, I know, I know, and it's all my fault.
I'm willing to forget all this, Charles, but of course
you must forget Helen. Of course, fix me drink, will you?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I could use one, all right, I could use one myself.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Yes, you've said something about a color.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh yes, yes, well bad news. I'm afraid it's it's
about marine Apparently she came out here last night while
I was in town, and while she was wandering around
outside in the dark, she she fell off the boat landing.
She yes, she drowned. An't I at least recovered her
body this morning? Oh easy, now, Darling. It's a terrible shock,
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I know. Yeah, this will help. If I'd been here,
I don't suppose it would have happened. At least the
lights on the boat landing would have been on. Wait
a moment.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
You said you were in town.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yes, at the house all evening, But you weren't.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
You weren't at the house in town. I know because
I called you from a resort half a dozen times.
There was no answer.
Speaker 9 (19:41):
But I tell you, where were you last night? Where
were you when Marene had her accident? Answer me, listen,
you were here when marine came. She knew about Helen.
You were afraid she'd tell me.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
You didn't know. She already sent me this letter, did you?
Did you?
Speaker 8 (19:56):
All right?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
All right?
Speaker 5 (19:57):
So I was here and Myrene's death wasn't so accidentally.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Wait a minute, where are you going to Edna? Listen,
I can't have anything to do with Marene's death. You've
got to believe me it was an accident.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
We'll let the police decide.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Now you let go.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
You're not going to the police.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Joy, don't look at me like that, were you?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Edna?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
She's fainted, hasn't she? Child fainted and crumpled to the
floor at your feet. And you know as you stared
down at her, that you had murder in mind in
your heart as you stared at her. And it is nover,
is it?
Speaker 8 (20:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
You can't let her go to the police with her story, Charles,
And looking down at Edna lying unconscious before you, the
thought suddenly occurs to you. It's a way out, isn't
it a way out for you and Helen? Quickly you
pick up the folditeet of paper the letter Marine wrote
to Edna, stuffing into your pocket. Then you carry Edna outside,
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place her in the car she drove down, drive it
into the garage, and close the garage doors, leaving the
motor running. Wait an hour later, and it's all over.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Later, you drive.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Edna's body back to town in her car, put the car
in your garage again, leave the motor running as you
close the garage doors. Now all you need to do
is return to the beach house. And wait for Edna's
body to be found in the garage. Knowing Edna as
you do, you are certain she told no one of
her return from Uma, and you're sure no one saw
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at the house at Little Rock Point. But you know
you must get back there before her body is discovered.
You take a bus back to the beach house next morning,
walked a half mile to the home of your nearest neighbor,
mister Stanley.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Oh, good morning, mister Gilbert.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Good morning, mister Stanley. I wonder if I might use
your phone? Sure sure ours hasn't been installed.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
She was too bad about through the lady the drowned,
wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Yes, it's going to be a terrible shock for my wife.
Almost afraid to tell her they were very close. Oh
you mean she doesn't know yet. Well, my wife is
vacationing at a desert resort. I sent her a wire
yesterday after you called me asking her to come home,
but I haven't heard a word from her.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Rather worried. Sure, sure you are. There's a phone over there,
a couple of steles.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Thank you, Hello operator, I'm calling the Shadow Hills Ranch, Humor, Arizona. Yes,
that's right, Thank you. I'm terribly sorry to barge in
on you like this, mister Stanley.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Oh, it's all right, quite all right.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
It's just that I'm so concerned about my wife ed
and I I can't understand why she hasn't no lived
or even answers my wire. It isn't like it.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yes, oh h he number is nine too. I'm calling
from Harbor nine to nine. Operator. Yes, Hello, the Shadow
Hills Ranch is missus Charles Gilbert. There, This is mister Gilbert.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
What.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Oh yeah, yes, I see, thank you.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
There is something wrong, mister Gilbert.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
He said she left the ranch yesterday morning. She was
on her way back to town. I can't understand where is she.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
I'm mister Gilbert. No need to get all worried. She'ld
turn out.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Who Something is wrong, I know it. I'd better call
the police.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Well sure, make you feel any better?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Anything's happened to my wife, mister Stanley, I don't know
what I do. I just don't know.
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Speaker 2 (25:17):
You've carried it off very well, haven't you.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Childs The role of.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
The worried husband concerned over his wife's whereabouts, and your
phone call to the police brings quick results. An hour later,
the sheriff calls on you at the house on Little
Rock Point quietly informs you of your wife's death carbon
monoxide in the garage of your home in town. You
continue to play the part now of the grief stricken husband,
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inwardly are pleased. Certain your performance has more than convinced
the sheriff. Then he's about.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
To leave you.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Oh, mister Gilbert, you said you were alone.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Here last night. Yes, yes, that's right. I waited all
night for my wife to sure.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
Are you sure she didn't?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Of course, now you'd never set foot in this USA.
Bought it only a few days ago, shortly before she
went on a vacation. I say, why you asked. I
was just looking at the painting of that dragon. Impressionistic stuff,
isn't it. Yeah, yes, that's right.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
I understand your wife was always drawing.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
Quite a doodler.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Yes, she doodle constantly, did, just a nervous habitat. I
was sort of wondering about that dragon. Picture looks very familiar.
It's an original. I had it sent out from New York.
That sure is different. It was a present for my wife.
Never got to see it.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
He wasn't with you when you bought it.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
No, you didn't even know it existed.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Maybe you'd better look at this.
Speaker 10 (26:47):
Letter an empty envelope rest to your wife at Yoma
from myrin Walker. Pout it your wife's purse from the
post mark. She must have gotten it the same day
she left Yoma.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Well what about her turn it over?
Speaker 10 (27:03):
All?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Right? Whatever?
Speaker 10 (27:05):
So your wife didn't even know of the existence of
that dragon painting, mister Gilbert.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yes, you also said she wasn't here at Little Rock
Point yesterday. Yes I did.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
And you've got a lot of explaining to do, mister Gilbert.
The doodling on this envelope your wife had is an
excellent copy of.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
That dragon painting. I think we can prove it your
wife's doodling, mister Gilbert.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
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