August 13, 2025 • 29 mins
The Whistler was a suspenseful mystery anthology that ran from 1942-1955. A character known only as the Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate and had a suspenseful and eerie tone, always ending with a twist. The Whistler was later adapted to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And now stay tuned for the mystery program that is
unique among all mystery programs, because even when you know
who's 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 Farther 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.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
For I walk by night.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of
men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes,
I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, The Whistler's strange
story devoted couple.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
The big house on Orange Grove Drive seemed to reflect
the merriment inside the new Mister and Missus Walter Blake
were at home to friends following their honeymoon, and it
was cruelly an occasion. Missus Blake had lived quite alone
for several years, a widow, with only a servant girl
as a companion, and now it was all changed, and
Claire Blake's friends were pleased, pleased for Claire, and pleased
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with the charm and manner of her new husband, the
wealthy Eastern sportsman Walter Blake. Yes, an occasion good cause
for laughter, happiness and congratulations.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Oh and Claire Darling to think how it was such
an accident that you two met, when you're well simply
made for each other.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Man.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
She's right, you know, and I'd say you both made
a fine catch.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
And I'm the lucky one. Mister Shelley.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Won't make it, Bob, will you?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
After all?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Walter the husband of our dear friend Claig.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Sorry, Bob, but I repeat, I am the lucky one.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Claire's the sort of person I've been searching for for years.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Thank you, dear mister Blake's telephone.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
Oh excuse me, dear everyone, probably some long distance congratulations
from my side of the fence.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I'll be right back. Hello, mister Blake, Walder Blake, that's right,
congratulations all right. I'm afraid of who is this?
Speaker 7 (02:49):
The name is Spiker.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I'm afraid we haven't met formally, mister Blake. But you see,
I'm from the East myself, so quite.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
Well informed about a number of prominent sports one there.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I know who's who and who isn't What are you
driving at, Spiker?
Speaker 7 (03:06):
You'd better talk to me.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I'll meet you in the garden in the back of
the house.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
But he hello, Hello, well Walter, who is he? And
what does he want? The questions race through your mind.
You can't place the name Spiker, not at all. But
you know one thing. You have to meet him. Have
to watch your opportunity and slip away from Claire and
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her friends and make your way out into the garden
and back of the house.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Over here, mister Bla, Oh Spiker, that's right now, see here.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
I don't want you to get the idea that because
I've come out here like.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
This, that you're worried scared. Oh no, mister Blake, not that.
Come on, I have much time watch this all about?
What's it all about? It? It's all about you, mister Blake.
I know all about you.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
You see.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
I was paid my regular fee just to find out
all about you.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Your regular fee. I'm afraid. I am a private investigator,
mister Blake. A private investigator.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Been checking on you for several weeks now, hired by
the present missus Blake.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Claire Claire hired you, asked to look into your.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Background, find out the truth about you before she listened
to your proposals went ahead with a marriage. I don't
believe it because she went ahead with a marriage, I
mean no, no, simply, I don't believe that Claire would
stoop to sing.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Oh, come off at mister Blake, oh walder.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
No type of pride if it'll help your feelings any
Her attorney did the insisting, But the fact remained that
you investigated me, found out found out that Walter Blake,
wealthy sportsman, is about as wealthy as I am.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Then why on earth did Claire go through with it?
She said nothing? Why did she marry him? Mister Blake?
Speaker 7 (05:02):
I dreamed up the beauty, handed you a character, bank
account and background that made it ridiculous to even thank
you had anything but love and devotion in mind.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
You're a very amazing person. Mister Spiker, not too.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Let's just say I'm human that I had myself in mind,
wanted my share of fuse what else? How about missus Blake?
Quite well off, isn't she?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yes, she's very well off, as you put it, the
sort of person I've been looking for a few years.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Yeah, my card, mister Blake, there's an address not a
very fancy place, to be sure, but a place to
hang my hat.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
And a place where you can start sending money starting
say tomorrow, or a spiker starting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You have a partner, haven't you, Walter, an unwelcome but
full partner, and your carefully prepared plan to acquire the
wealth belonging to your new wife, Claire. The problem is
on your mind all evening to the remainder of the
little reception party, and you're thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Later, as you.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Drive Claire's friends the shelley is home because their car
is started. And then then alone in the car on
your way back home to Claire, you hit upon a solution. Yes, Walter,
you find the only kind of answer to this sort
of thing, the only kind of answer you know. The
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next morning, at.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Breakfast, Claire seems disturbed over a little item in the papers.
What is it, dear? You have an odd expression on
your face. Have I something in the papers?
Speaker 5 (07:02):
No?
Speaker 8 (07:02):
No, not really, It's just a for an accident victim, Dear,
a man who was found dead in his apartment, suffocated
or something?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Names familiar to me?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
What is the name Spiker?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Harry Spiker?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Oh? May I look at the financial page.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Dear you know friends. In addition to being summer, this
is also the time of year when more and more
drivers switched to signal the famous go father gasoline. Vacation
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minded folks just naturally go for signals good mile age.
But mile age, mind you, as only half of signal's story.
Just you talk with a few signal customers and you'll
find they're equally enthusiastic about signal's performance. After all, in
order to give you such good mileage to day's, signal
has to help your motor run more efficiently. And when
your motor runs more efficiently, naturally, you also enjoy quicker starting,
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proud pick up, and smooth hurrying power, the things that
make driving more fun. So to get the most out
of your vacation dollars, make the friendly signal stations you'll
find throughout the Pacific Coast states your headquarters for happy mileage.
And even if you're not planning a vacation trip, well,
any time is a good time to power your car
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with signals the famous go farther gasoline.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
It's going well again, isn't it, Walter. The weeks that
follow the little incident with mister Spiker are uneventful comfortable. Also,
you manage discern some profits for your wife Claire on
a number of minor business investments. She has full, unquestioning
confidence in you, hasn't she. Of course, Claire has no
way of knowing or any reason to suspect that the
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profits you've shown for her on her money are false profits.
You're using your own money, what little you have left
of it, for the purpose of winning her good will
and faith. Yes, Walter, you've got to spend money to
earn money, as you so often tell Claire.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Oh, Walter again, and you've given me such a large
return on such a.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Little investment, Just pointing the way for you, my dear.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
Later on I run across something where you can splurge,
make a tremendous amount, you see. Actually, Claire, you've got
to spend money.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
To make it anything, you say, dear my, Even if
we couldn't, would it. We've made a not to spend
weeks at the beach. Take a cottage, a nice one, Walter,
you're a genius at business, a wizard.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
There's nothing magic about it, dear, just the right move
at the right time. Or about that beach cottage idea,
I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yes, Walter, you're sure that before too long, Claire will
be turning everything over to your management, giving you power
of attorney. It's perfect, isn't it going more smoothly than
you anticipated? At the beach, Claire's confidence even inspires her
to hire a social secretary. Your new wife is blossoming out, Walter,
taking an interest in things. But you find another kind
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of interest in her new secretary, a girl with Titian
hair and laughing blue eyes. And it all begins on
the day you first meet her, when you drive back
to the beach from town, go for an afternoon swim.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Out to a raft just off show.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
She's sitting there as you swim up.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Well, oh notice I had an audience.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
And you swim very well.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
You're mister Blake, that's right, Oh, and yonder Dean Wilson.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yes, by missus Blake's new secretary. Well, oh my, I
wish I could swim as well as you do.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh, not as good as I used to be.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Out of shape, I'm afraid I wish you'd help me.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I'm glad to yeah it a stroke.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I just don't get that overhand. Business and the and
the breathe in and breathe out. I keep drinking in
half the.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Ocean where we'll write it gretted. Yes, we'll try to
find some time together every day if you wish, miss Wilson.
It'll be a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
That was the beginning, Walter, But only the beginning. First,
the lessons every afternoon, and like you said, a real pleasure.
Then later at lants meeting one evening when Claire retired early,
a stroll along the beach, quiet conversation, lulled by the
gentle lapping of the waves against the beach, just the
two of you, you and the Dean. Soon it's a
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nightly thing, a silent agreement that you.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Too will meet and walk and talk.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And suddenly you find yourself discontented. The thoughts of Claire's
money aren't enough, are they They're new thoughts, thoughts of
you and the Dean. Until finally you can stand it
no longer. You're wondering what to do and when to
do it, until suddenly Nadan brings everything up short.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Mister Blake, Please, Nadine, dear order has been quite good
enough for a week now, surely, and are going to
change something that's mister Blake.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I've wanted to say this before. Now I have to
say it.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
I simply must.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
What is it, Dear?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Maybe I will sun mid Victorian or something, but I
don't care. I don't know what's got into me.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I've never acted this.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Way before, I mean, with a married man. It isn't fair. No, Missus,
Blake's been very decent to me. I feel all wrong
about this, like.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
A cheat, I see.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Please, mister Blake, say you understand that you don't think
badly of me, I mean, for well, giving you the
wrong idea. Perhaps you see I do you do.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Care for me? Isn't that what you were going to say?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Yes, yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
But this is insane. What we're doing, insane, unfair.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
And neither of us can help it. Neither of us
can do anything about it.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
No, please don't say that we can do something I can't.
I can leave, I can go away, Dean.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Don't do that. It won't be necessary.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
You mean you understand If I don't, my dear, I'll
make every effort to only Please don't run off.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Let me work this thing out properly, decently. I'll do it.
I assure you.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
The proper decent thing that you promised Nadine would involve
a divorce, wouldn't it, Water, Yes, complete freedom from Claire. Divorce.
That would clear the way for you and the Dean,
wouldn't it, Walter. But you don't intend to take that step,
do you. Divorcing Claire would leave you penniless, and that
doesn't fit in with your plans, plans that will make
you a wealthy man.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
On Claire's death.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
And the following evening at dinner, you're thinking about your
next move, paying little attention to Claire's constant chattering, that is,
until something.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
She says causes you to look up at her. What
what was that, Darling?
Speaker 5 (14:47):
How was the Grangers? Darling? I promise Madge we'd drop over.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Then, or I wish you hadn't Claire?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Well, I didn't know you had plans, Walter.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Well, it's just that Emerson is coming over here. Yes,
you introduced me to him at the Country Clay last month.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Oh yes, of course he's in insurance or something.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yes, insurance. That's why I asked him over, Darling. It's
the sensible thing to do if anything happened to me.
I don't talk like that, really, Claire. Now, let's face it, right.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Of course, but I just don't like to think of
those things.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You don't have to, Darling, but I do. It's a responsibility.
I owe it to you, Walter. Really, Claire, I feel
much better about everything.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Well, I suppose you've made up your mind.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I have, Darling. It'll be the best investment I've ever made.
Believe me.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
During the rest of dinner, you manage to keep the
topic of insurance alive, don't you, water, and you can
tell that Claire is interested. You almost know what she's thinking.
Yet you're disappointed once dinner is over and she decides
to go on to the Grangers alone. You'd hope she'd
remain sitting on your conversation with the insurance agent. You
spend an hour in the study with mister Emerson discussing
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your insurance plans in detail, and then a few minutes
after he's gone, you hear Claire in the entry.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Hall Walter in the study, Dolly, I have a nice visit.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Very Oh when you are alone?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Well, oh, you mean Emerson when he left a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Ago, Oh, dear, I came back early, hoping he's still
be here. Yes, I've been seeing things over Walter about
the insurance.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Now, Claire, I've already agreed to take him.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Well, that's fine, dear, But if you take out insurance
for me, I want.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
To take out insurance for you all now, really.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Please, I've made up my mind. You will poor mister
Emerson in the morning and ask him to come out again,
won't you? Order, well, ask him to lunch tomorrow. Why
don't you and we'll talk.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
All right, Clare, whatever you say.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It's happened, just as you knew it would, Walter.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Claire fell for.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Your insurance idea and insisted on taking out an equal
amount of insurance on herself, just as you felt sure
she would. Within a week after mister Emerson's second call
to the house the luncheon, you and Claire share a
joint life insurance policy for fifty thousand dollars. In addition,
there's the rest of Claire's money that you'll inherit the.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Day she dies.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
You haven't decided just when that will come about, or
how six months or so a year, Brahams. But in
the weeks that follow, as you continue to meet with Nadin,
you find yourself becoming more and more impatient. Then one morning,
as you come downstairs to a late breakfast. You see
a taxi pull out of your driveway and disappear down
the street.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Morning, dear, morning Claire. Who is that the taxes?
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Nadine? She couldn't wait, darling. You told me to say
goodbye goodbye. Knew something was wrong the moment you brought
the mail in this morning.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Wrong.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
What do you mean bad news from home? My mother's cridio?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Oh, I see.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
I do so hate losing Nadean. She was such an
efficient little person. No, I suppose I'd have to start
all over again and break in and use secretary. Really,
it's so annoying.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Wait a minute, you you mean she's not coming back.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
No, no, I'm afraid Nadine's left as water for good.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
What Hello, Nidean. Didn't think I'd find you, did you?
I didn't think I would myself.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Well, please go away, please, I've.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Been looking for you all week. Please let me come in.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
But I told missus Blake that I.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Bet you were going east.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
I couldn't believe that. How did you find me through
one of the employment agencies? Why, Nadine, Why did you
run away?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I just couldn't stand it any more. Water living in
the same house, being near you and.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
You, I've missed you terriently. Houses like a tomb. Now,
those walks at the night along the cliffs, that's when
I miss you.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Soon, Water, Listen to me. It's no use. I just
don't want things the way they are now. It's better
that we we forget it ever happen, forget each other,
just like that, just like that.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
No, No, it isn't quite that simple.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I am going away, Walter.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
I've got a new job.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Where.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
What difference does that make?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Where, Nadine, there really isn't a new job, is there? No?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
But don't you see, Walter, I've got to get away,
a new city I don't know where, a new job,
new friends, they do wonders for a girl, So I understand.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Look, Darling, we can please Water.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
I've made up my mind. This, This is the way
it's got to be.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I don't suppose i'll ever see you again.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
You'll see how it works out. Who knows.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I might come crawling back on my hands.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
And knees and hoops and perhaps not. All right, Nadine,
Let's see how it works out. But promise me one thing, Yes,
you'll let me know where you are. You're right, please, Nadine,
I must know, all right, Walter.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I promise.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
You're afraid you're going to lose her, aren't you, Walter.
Once she's gone to another town, a new job and
new friends. Nadine's an attractive girl, and she'll find someone else.
You're certain of that, someone who'll help.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Her forget you.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
But that isn't going to happen, is it. No, you're
not going to give her the chance to forget you, Walter.
And that means you've got to speed up your plans
to get rid of Claire. In the days that follow,
you carefully consider several ways in which you can bring
about your wife's dead, consider and reject them as dangerous, complicated,
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and apt to cause suspicion. One evening, when you're alone
in the house, you receive a phone call.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
No, No, it's all right, she's out for a walk.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
I'm leaving in the morning water a.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Job you at the apartment. I'll be right over, but
I've got to see you before you go, only for
a minute or so.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I won't answer the door. Wawe.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
But Nadine, all right, all right, I couldn't persuade you
to change your mind about going nadin this is crazy.
Please don't go. We can work something out. Listen to me, Darling,
please na wait all right, Nadine.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
You replaced the receiver, walk slowly across the room and
step out under the terrace. As you light a cigarette,
you notice your hand is trembling, and you know that
the murder of your wife must take place soon, very soon. Hello, Dilly,
you turn and watched Claire coming up the path towards you.
You're annoyed, aren't you, Walter. You wanted more time alone
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to think.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
You're back Curly it.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Turned rabid, Chilli, I just came back from my curse.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I'll get it for you.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Oh no, don't, father, dear. I want to change my
shoes too. The path along the cliffs is rather slippery
the rain today.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Oh yes, you see, path can be dangerous after a rain, Claire.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I now don't fret. I'm always quite careful.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
It's as simple as that.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
I'll walk along the cliffs, Oh Claire, Yes, I think
a walk would do me good.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Mind if I joined you?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Of course, not, Darling, love to have you walk with me,
be right.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
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Speaker 2 (24:45):
The tragedy at the Cliffs, at first believed an accident
had turned out to be something else, a clear case
of murder. There had been a witness to the shocking
affair who saw the victim pushed off the cliffs, and
that witness now sat in a crowded office at police headquarters,
white faced, staring across the room at the killer. A
low hum of conversation ceased suddenly as police Lieutenant Jamison
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re entered the room. He stopped a glance at the
stenographer's notes for a moment, and then he turned and
faced the witness.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Miss Wilson, uh Neir Dean Wilson, Is that right? Yes,
you were formerly secretary to missus Blake. Yes, how do
you happen to be at the cliffs at the time
of the murder? Miss Wilson?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
I asked you how you're on my way to meet
mister Blake.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
The meeting had been arranged.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
No, you see, I had planned to leave town the
last minute.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
I changed my mind.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I wanted to tell him that.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I see, I see all right.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
I was in love with water Blake.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Yes, you knew then. Mister Blake was in the habit
of taking a stroll along the cliffs in the evening, and.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I went there to meet. That's when I saw them together. Oh,
when I saw the killing.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Thank you, miss Wilson, Missus Blake.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Yes, Lieutenant, you knew about Nadine Wilson and your husband.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (26:29):
No, I didn't know anything about that.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Then why did you push him off the cliff?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Missus Blake?
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Money?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Money?
Speaker 6 (26:38):
But Missus Blake, your first husband.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
It's me a great deal. Yes, I spend it all.
That's why I married Walter Blake recently. For many reasons,
I began to suspect he had no more than I have.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
I see, so you persuaded your husband to take out
a fifty thousand dollars insurance policy.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
No, now, the insurance was his idea. Joint policy. Proceeds payable.
The survivor was my idea?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Why?
Speaker 9 (27:12):
Just a gesture of affection, Lieutenant. At the time, I
still thought word was wealthy. Later, when I was sure
he didn't have much money, I realized I'd allowed him
to trick me into that joint policy for fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
A why I decided to make sure I would be
the survivor.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
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Speaker 2 (00:53):
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Speaker 3 (00:57):
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The big house on Orange Grove Drive seemed to reflect
the merriment inside the new Mister and Missus Walter Blake
were at home to friends following their honeymoon, and it
was cruelly an occasion. Missus Blake had lived quite alone
for several years, a widow, with only a servant girl
as a companion, and now it was all changed, and
Claire Blake's friends were pleased, pleased for Claire, and pleased
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with the charm and manner of her new husband, the
wealthy Eastern sportsman Walter Blake. Yes, an occasion good cause
for laughter, happiness and congratulations.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Oh and Claire Darling to think how it was such
an accident that you two met, when you're well simply
made for each other.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Man.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
She's right, you know, and I'd say you both made
a fine catch.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
And I'm the lucky one. Mister Shelley.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Won't make it, Bob, will you?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
After all?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Walter the husband of our dear friend Claig.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Sorry, Bob, but I repeat, I am the lucky one.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Claire's the sort of person I've been searching for for years.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Thank you, dear mister Blake's telephone.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
Oh excuse me, dear everyone, probably some long distance congratulations
from my side of the fence.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I'll be right back. Hello, mister Blake, Walder Blake, that's right,
congratulations all right. I'm afraid of who is this?
Speaker 7 (02:49):
The name is Spiker.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I'm afraid we haven't met formally, mister Blake. But you see,
I'm from the East myself, so quite.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
Well informed about a number of prominent sports one there.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I know who's who and who isn't What are you
driving at, Spiker?
Speaker 7 (03:06):
You'd better talk to me.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I'll meet you in the garden in the back of
the house.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
But he hello, Hello, well Walter, who is he? And
what does he want? The questions race through your mind.
You can't place the name Spiker, not at all. But
you know one thing. You have to meet him. Have
to watch your opportunity and slip away from Claire and
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her friends and make your way out into the garden
and back of the house.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Over here, mister Bla, Oh Spiker, that's right now, see here.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
I don't want you to get the idea that because
I've come out here like.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
This, that you're worried scared. Oh no, mister Blake, not that.
Come on, I have much time watch this all about?
What's it all about? It? It's all about you, mister Blake.
I know all about you.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
You see.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
I was paid my regular fee just to find out
all about you.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Your regular fee. I'm afraid. I am a private investigator,
mister Blake. A private investigator.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Been checking on you for several weeks now, hired by
the present missus Blake.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Claire Claire hired you, asked to look into your.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Background, find out the truth about you before she listened
to your proposals went ahead with a marriage. I don't
believe it because she went ahead with a marriage, I
mean no, no, simply, I don't believe that Claire would
stoop to sing.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Oh, come off at mister Blake, oh walder.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
No type of pride if it'll help your feelings any
Her attorney did the insisting, But the fact remained that
you investigated me, found out found out that Walter Blake,
wealthy sportsman, is about as wealthy as I am.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Then why on earth did Claire go through with it?
She said nothing? Why did she marry him? Mister Blake?
Speaker 7 (05:02):
I dreamed up the beauty, handed you a character, bank
account and background that made it ridiculous to even thank
you had anything but love and devotion in mind.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
You're a very amazing person. Mister Spiker, not too.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Let's just say I'm human that I had myself in mind,
wanted my share of fuse what else? How about missus Blake?
Quite well off, isn't she?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yes, she's very well off, as you put it, the
sort of person I've been looking for a few years.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Yeah, my card, mister Blake, there's an address not a
very fancy place, to be sure, but a place to
hang my hat.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
And a place where you can start sending money starting
say tomorrow, or a spiker starting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You have a partner, haven't you, Walter, an unwelcome but
full partner, and your carefully prepared plan to acquire the
wealth belonging to your new wife, Claire. The problem is
on your mind all evening to the remainder of the
little reception party, and you're thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Later, as you.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Drive Claire's friends the shelley is home because their car
is started. And then then alone in the car on
your way back home to Claire, you hit upon a solution. Yes, Walter,
you find the only kind of answer to this sort
of thing, the only kind of answer you know. The
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next morning, at.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Breakfast, Claire seems disturbed over a little item in the papers.
What is it, dear? You have an odd expression on
your face. Have I something in the papers?
Speaker 5 (07:02):
No?
Speaker 8 (07:02):
No, not really, It's just a for an accident victim, Dear,
a man who was found dead in his apartment, suffocated
or something?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Names familiar to me?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
What is the name Spiker?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Harry Spiker?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Oh? May I look at the financial page.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
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is also the time of year when more and more
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Just you talk with a few signal customers and you'll
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has to help your motor run more efficiently. And when
your motor runs more efficiently, naturally, you also enjoy quicker starting,
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And even if you're not planning a vacation trip, well,
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Speaker 2 (09:01):
It's going well again, isn't it, Walter. The weeks that
follow the little incident with mister Spiker are uneventful comfortable. Also,
you manage discern some profits for your wife Claire on
a number of minor business investments. She has full, unquestioning
confidence in you, hasn't she. Of course, Claire has no
way of knowing or any reason to suspect that the
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profits you've shown for her on her money are false profits.
You're using your own money, what little you have left
of it, for the purpose of winning her good will
and faith. Yes, Walter, you've got to spend money to
earn money, as you so often tell Claire.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Oh, Walter again, and you've given me such a large
return on such a.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Little investment, Just pointing the way for you, my dear.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
Later on I run across something where you can splurge,
make a tremendous amount, you see. Actually, Claire, you've got
to spend money.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
To make it anything, you say, dear my, Even if
we couldn't, would it. We've made a not to spend
weeks at the beach. Take a cottage, a nice one, Walter,
you're a genius at business, a wizard.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
There's nothing magic about it, dear, just the right move
at the right time. Or about that beach cottage idea,
I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yes, Walter, you're sure that before too long, Claire will
be turning everything over to your management, giving you power
of attorney. It's perfect, isn't it going more smoothly than
you anticipated? At the beach, Claire's confidence even inspires her
to hire a social secretary. Your new wife is blossoming out, Walter,
taking an interest in things. But you find another kind
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of interest in her new secretary, a girl with Titian
hair and laughing blue eyes. And it all begins on
the day you first meet her, when you drive back
to the beach from town, go for an afternoon swim.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Out to a raft just off show.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
She's sitting there as you swim up.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Well, oh notice I had an audience.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
And you swim very well.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
You're mister Blake, that's right, Oh, and yonder Dean Wilson.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yes, by missus Blake's new secretary. Well, oh my, I
wish I could swim as well as you do.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh, not as good as I used to be.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Out of shape, I'm afraid I wish you'd help me.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I'm glad to yeah it a stroke.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I just don't get that overhand. Business and the and
the breathe in and breathe out. I keep drinking in
half the.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Ocean where we'll write it gretted. Yes, we'll try to
find some time together every day if you wish, miss Wilson.
It'll be a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
That was the beginning, Walter, But only the beginning. First,
the lessons every afternoon, and like you said, a real pleasure.
Then later at lants meeting one evening when Claire retired early,
a stroll along the beach, quiet conversation, lulled by the
gentle lapping of the waves against the beach, just the
two of you, you and the Dean. Soon it's a
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nightly thing, a silent agreement that you.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Too will meet and walk and talk.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And suddenly you find yourself discontented. The thoughts of Claire's
money aren't enough, are they They're new thoughts, thoughts of
you and the Dean. Until finally you can stand it
no longer. You're wondering what to do and when to
do it, until suddenly Nadan brings everything up short.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Mister Blake, Please, Nadine, dear order has been quite good
enough for a week now, surely, and are going to
change something that's mister Blake.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I've wanted to say this before. Now I have to
say it.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
I simply must.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
What is it, Dear?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Maybe I will sun mid Victorian or something, but I
don't care. I don't know what's got into me.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I've never acted this.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Way before, I mean, with a married man. It isn't fair. No, Missus,
Blake's been very decent to me. I feel all wrong
about this, like.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
A cheat, I see.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Please, mister Blake, say you understand that you don't think
badly of me, I mean, for well, giving you the
wrong idea. Perhaps you see I do you do.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Care for me? Isn't that what you were going to say?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Yes, yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
But this is insane. What we're doing, insane, unfair.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
And neither of us can help it. Neither of us
can do anything about it.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
No, please don't say that we can do something I can't.
I can leave, I can go away, Dean.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Don't do that. It won't be necessary.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
You mean you understand If I don't, my dear, I'll
make every effort to only Please don't run off.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Let me work this thing out properly, decently. I'll do it.
I assure you.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
The proper decent thing that you promised Nadine would involve
a divorce, wouldn't it, Water, Yes, complete freedom from Claire. Divorce.
That would clear the way for you and the Dean,
wouldn't it, Walter. But you don't intend to take that step,
do you. Divorcing Claire would leave you penniless, and that
doesn't fit in with your plans, plans that will make
you a wealthy man.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
On Claire's death.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
And the following evening at dinner, you're thinking about your
next move, paying little attention to Claire's constant chattering, that is,
until something.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
She says causes you to look up at her. What
what was that, Darling?
Speaker 5 (14:47):
How was the Grangers? Darling? I promise Madge we'd drop over.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Then, or I wish you hadn't Claire?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Well, I didn't know you had plans, Walter.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Well, it's just that Emerson is coming over here. Yes,
you introduced me to him at the Country Clay last month.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Oh yes, of course he's in insurance or something.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yes, insurance. That's why I asked him over, Darling. It's
the sensible thing to do if anything happened to me.
I don't talk like that, really, Claire. Now, let's face it, right.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Of course, but I just don't like to think of
those things.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You don't have to, Darling, but I do. It's a responsibility.
I owe it to you, Walter. Really, Claire, I feel
much better about everything.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Well, I suppose you've made up your mind.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I have, Darling. It'll be the best investment I've ever made.
Believe me.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
During the rest of dinner, you manage to keep the
topic of insurance alive, don't you, water, and you can
tell that Claire is interested. You almost know what she's thinking.
Yet you're disappointed once dinner is over and she decides
to go on to the Grangers alone. You'd hope she'd
remain sitting on your conversation with the insurance agent. You
spend an hour in the study with mister Emerson discussing
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your insurance plans in detail, and then a few minutes
after he's gone, you hear Claire in the entry.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Hall Walter in the study, Dolly, I have a nice visit.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Very Oh when you are alone?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Well, oh, you mean Emerson when he left a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Ago, Oh, dear, I came back early, hoping he's still
be here. Yes, I've been seeing things over Walter about
the insurance.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Now, Claire, I've already agreed to take him.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Well, that's fine, dear, But if you take out insurance
for me, I want.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
To take out insurance for you all now, really.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Please, I've made up my mind. You will poor mister
Emerson in the morning and ask him to come out again,
won't you? Order, well, ask him to lunch tomorrow. Why
don't you and we'll talk.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
All right, Clare, whatever you say.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It's happened, just as you knew it would, Walter.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Claire fell for.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Your insurance idea and insisted on taking out an equal
amount of insurance on herself, just as you felt sure
she would. Within a week after mister Emerson's second call
to the house the luncheon, you and Claire share a
joint life insurance policy for fifty thousand dollars. In addition,
there's the rest of Claire's money that you'll inherit the.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Day she dies.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
You haven't decided just when that will come about, or
how six months or so a year, Brahams. But in
the weeks that follow, as you continue to meet with Nadin,
you find yourself becoming more and more impatient. Then one morning,
as you come downstairs to a late breakfast. You see
a taxi pull out of your driveway and disappear down
the street.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Morning, dear, morning Claire. Who is that the taxes?
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Nadine? She couldn't wait, darling. You told me to say
goodbye goodbye. Knew something was wrong the moment you brought
the mail in this morning.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Wrong.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
What do you mean bad news from home? My mother's cridio?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Oh, I see.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
I do so hate losing Nadean. She was such an
efficient little person. No, I suppose I'd have to start
all over again and break in and use secretary. Really,
it's so annoying.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Wait a minute, you you mean she's not coming back.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
No, no, I'm afraid Nadine's left as water for good.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
What Hello, Nidean. Didn't think I'd find you, did you?
I didn't think I would myself.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Well, please go away, please, I've.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Been looking for you all week. Please let me come in.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
But I told missus Blake that I.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Bet you were going east.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
I couldn't believe that. How did you find me through
one of the employment agencies? Why, Nadine, Why did you
run away?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I just couldn't stand it any more. Water living in
the same house, being near you and.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
You, I've missed you terriently. Houses like a tomb. Now,
those walks at the night along the cliffs, that's when
I miss you.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Soon, Water, Listen to me. It's no use. I just
don't want things the way they are now. It's better
that we we forget it ever happen, forget each other,
just like that, just like that.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
No, No, it isn't quite that simple.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I am going away, Walter.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
I've got a new job.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Where.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
What difference does that make?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Where, Nadine, there really isn't a new job, is there? No?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
But don't you see, Walter, I've got to get away,
a new city I don't know where, a new job,
new friends, they do wonders for a girl, So I understand.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Look, Darling, we can please Water.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
I've made up my mind. This, This is the way
it's got to be.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I don't suppose i'll ever see you again.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
You'll see how it works out. Who knows.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I might come crawling back on my hands.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
And knees and hoops and perhaps not. All right, Nadine,
Let's see how it works out. But promise me one thing, Yes,
you'll let me know where you are. You're right, please, Nadine,
I must know, all right, Walter.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I promise.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
You're afraid you're going to lose her, aren't you, Walter.
Once she's gone to another town, a new job and
new friends. Nadine's an attractive girl, and she'll find someone else.
You're certain of that, someone who'll help.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Her forget you.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
But that isn't going to happen, is it. No, you're
not going to give her the chance to forget you, Walter.
And that means you've got to speed up your plans
to get rid of Claire. In the days that follow,
you carefully consider several ways in which you can bring
about your wife's dead, consider and reject them as dangerous, complicated,
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and apt to cause suspicion. One evening, when you're alone
in the house, you receive a phone call.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
No, No, it's all right, she's out for a walk.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
I'm leaving in the morning water a.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Job you at the apartment. I'll be right over, but
I've got to see you before you go, only for
a minute or so.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I won't answer the door. Wawe.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
But Nadine, all right, all right, I couldn't persuade you
to change your mind about going nadin this is crazy.
Please don't go. We can work something out. Listen to me, Darling,
please na wait all right, Nadine.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
You replaced the receiver, walk slowly across the room and
step out under the terrace. As you light a cigarette,
you notice your hand is trembling, and you know that
the murder of your wife must take place soon, very soon. Hello, Dilly,
you turn and watched Claire coming up the path towards you.
You're annoyed, aren't you, Walter. You wanted more time alone
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to think.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
You're back Curly it.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Turned rabid, Chilli, I just came back from my curse.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I'll get it for you.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Oh no, don't, father, dear. I want to change my
shoes too. The path along the cliffs is rather slippery
the rain today.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Oh yes, you see, path can be dangerous after a rain, Claire.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I now don't fret. I'm always quite careful.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
It's as simple as that.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
I'll walk along the cliffs, Oh Claire, Yes, I think
a walk would do me good.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Mind if I joined you?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Of course, not, Darling, love to have you walk with me,
be right.
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Speaker 2 (24:45):
The tragedy at the Cliffs, at first believed an accident
had turned out to be something else, a clear case
of murder. There had been a witness to the shocking
affair who saw the victim pushed off the cliffs, and
that witness now sat in a crowded office at police headquarters,
white faced, staring across the room at the killer. A
low hum of conversation ceased suddenly as police Lieutenant Jamison
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re entered the room. He stopped a glance at the
stenographer's notes for a moment, and then he turned and
faced the witness.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Miss Wilson, uh Neir Dean Wilson, Is that right? Yes,
you were formerly secretary to missus Blake. Yes, how do
you happen to be at the cliffs at the time
of the murder? Miss Wilson?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
I asked you how you're on my way to meet
mister Blake.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
The meeting had been arranged.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
No, you see, I had planned to leave town the
last minute.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
I changed my mind.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I wanted to tell him that.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I see, I see all right.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
I was in love with water Blake.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Yes, you knew then. Mister Blake was in the habit
of taking a stroll along the cliffs in the evening, and.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I went there to meet. That's when I saw them together. Oh,
when I saw the killing.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Thank you, miss Wilson, Missus Blake.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Yes, Lieutenant, you knew about Nadine Wilson and your husband.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (26:29):
No, I didn't know anything about that.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Then why did you push him off the cliff?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Missus Blake?
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Money?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Money?
Speaker 6 (26:38):
But Missus Blake, your first husband.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
It's me a great deal. Yes, I spend it all.
That's why I married Walter Blake recently. For many reasons,
I began to suspect he had no more than I have.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
I see, so you persuaded your husband to take out
a fifty thousand dollars insurance policy.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
No, now, the insurance was his idea. Joint policy. Proceeds payable.
The survivor was my idea?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Why?
Speaker 9 (27:12):
Just a gesture of affection, Lieutenant. At the time, I
still thought word was wealthy. Later, when I was sure
he didn't have much money, I realized I'd allowed him
to trick me into that joint policy for fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
A why I decided to make sure I would be
the survivor.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
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