December 14, 2025 • 24 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 (00:07):
Vote with slur presented by the United States Air Forces
in Europe.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things before
I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
in the hearts of men and women who have stepped
into tatters. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Dare not speak for the third consecutive US program aimed
at bettering between the command and the host nation groups,
(01:06):
and now the Whistler's strange story escape to do.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The morning is brilliant and warm as the S S.
Slanni moves slowly towards the small primitive harbor of Kluca.
The passengers stand anxiously along the dock, taking in the
picturesque South Pacific island. It's all there, the blue lagoon
blending into the blue mountain. But the enchanting island doesn't
(01:49):
capture everyone's die.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Something interests Paul Wilson much more.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Doesn't it fall.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yes, she's standing at the rail a few yards away, unaware.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Of your stare.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
But Jane Yoki, standing beside you, has noticed your focus attention.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Paul.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
That's enough, missus. I am Kimberly.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You haven't taken your eyes off her since we came
out on deck trying.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
To catch your eye. Why you'll stop and speak to us,
Speak to us.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You've had her in a corner, chattering all the way
from San Pedro.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Jane, my sweet, gaining the love of Eddy's conference is
the most important part of our groundwork.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
You enjoy it too much to suit me.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I was selling. Once I've got our necklace, it'll be
just stealing me again.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I don't like any part of this, and.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
You asked me to stake you to this big deal.
I didn't realize it was anything like this. You never
done anything outside the.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Law before, not doing anything now I am. You're merely
merely interesting in my business venture for fifty of a
certain sixty thousand dollars profit. I forget it, Jane. I
only take a few more days and we'll be on.
I went back to the States.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You better move fast. I'm practically out of money.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It won't take long, I hope not.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I'm really set up watching you romance with Missus Diane Kimberly.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
You just might look forward to your half of that
sixty thousand dollars we'll get from Missus Kimberly's necklace.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Sure, really good he's coming.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Over, charm Jane, Yes, darling, Good morning, mister Wilson.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Hello Jane, good.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Morning, good morning. Oh it's perfect. What do you think
of Peluca?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
I had no idea it would look so primitive.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It looks okay to me. Has quite a few ships
anchored in.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
That harbor there, Yes, most of them are naval vessels,
aren't that?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
If you haven't fleets in, I guess.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well. I hope the island isn't too crowded, a little
spoil the atmosphere.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Are you and your sisters staying at the Laurelei.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
House, mister Wilson, Yes, we are, oh wonderful.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Then we'll see you, are.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Sure later on christ We'll phone you as soon as
we're settled.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Then we'll see you later. Bye bye bye, Jane.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
If you're not careful, you will ruin everything with that
nasty position.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Might like to throw that damn over the side down.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I know exactly what you're about to say.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
So just don't body anything you say in this.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Kids, Let's go ashore?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Shall we.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Ashore on Kaluka?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
The pattern is nearly the same asn't it, Pau.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Next day you phone Diane Kimberly and invite both Diane
and her aunt to dinner at the Laurel Eye House,
and Diane accepts with apparent pleasure.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
In the dining room that evening, you and Jane.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Catch your first glimpse of the diamond necklace that you
followed halfway across the Pacific. And you notice some other
things too, don't you fall Diane's breathtaking beauty, her simple
direct manner, her obvious interest in you. For the time
you've had coffee, another thought has entered your mind, hasn't
it paut an idea that makes your original plan a theft.
(05:00):
The necklace seemed trivial by comparison. You managed to maneuver
things so cleverly that a few minutes after dinner you
find yourself alone with Diane on the moonlit hotel terrace.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I never imagined anything would be a lovely as There's
something like this in the little towns I've.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Lived in little towns, yes, from Alaska to Uruguays.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Your husband was a traveling man.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Of a kind.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
He always wanted to strike it rich.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Even the report of a gold strike drew him like
a magnet. After we were married, I went with him
at least to the nearest.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Towns, real grabsteaker uh and an investor.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Practically every penny we could scrape together when into mining stocks, nearly.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
All of them proved worthless.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That's usually a story.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
He was killed in an accident three years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
At the time of the year, we had nothing. I
went to live with my Aunt Emily in Longview. We
had to take in boarders for a while, but Joe
did leave me five thousand years than a gold mine
in Uruguay and they are yes six months later. Joe's
mind proved to be one of the richest in the world.
(06:25):
It brings in more money every.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Year than Aunt Emily, and I could spend.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Him three lifetimes.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Paula, I think we know each other well enough.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Now to drop the missus Kimberly, don't you That suits me?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Danne. But you don't know very much about me, very little.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
All I know is you have a sister.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Both of you come from San Francisco, and you're both
very pleasant company.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
That isn't enough. So what you say tomorrow morning at
nine o'clock, I'll pick you up and then we'll explore
Kaluka together, the whole island, the two of us.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That sounds fascinating. Events seemed to be shaping themselves very
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nicely for you, don't say, Paul. Even before Diane kimberly
told you her own story of her heavy mining interests,
you were aware she was one of America's wealthiest young women.
And you're sure she's more than ordinarily.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Interested in you.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Then, if you're careful under the tropical skyes magic spell
of Calucca, you might marry her before you leave the island.
Next day's trip around the island is followed by dinner
and dancing, and three days later, with the help of
a well tipped native bell boy, you'dn't for a guide
to take you and Diane in a secret trip to
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a well hidden spot in the mountain where the two
of you are able to view the sulam seen native
religious ceremony.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
You here, we stop, We get out now, Paul, listener,
look at that bonfire.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Ah, this good place to watch.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
You stay?
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Guess we'll stay here? How good? Good? No trouble?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You stay here.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I come back soon.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Can you remember I going back soon?
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Is he leaving us here alone?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
We'll be all right. I ad luck there by the fire.
I just watch very few people get to see this.
I think this is known as take way. Did I've
read the story? You see that native girl dancing like? Yes? Chat?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
If I recall the legend, she represents a girl who
was in love with the Prolynation King. The king was
in love with her too, but he couldn't marry her
without giving up his storms, so out of her love
for him, the girl threw herself into a volcano.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Watching this, I can believe that legend.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I've never seen.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Anything so primitively beautiful. I almost wish I could stay
here like this.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Always like this, hm.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
With me beside you.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Well, I look at me, Dan, Yes, Paul, I better
call the guide and step it back. Why, I'm because
you have the most beautiful player in the world. We
stay here one more minute?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
You what?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Dan?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
What?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I love you? Diane Paul, I don't say anything. I
know I spoke too quickly, that we've only known each
other just a little while.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
But I oh, I only've known each other.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
It's important. But what are you sure this isn't just
a the occasional man.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
That it isn't.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Then related drums.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Of music, say what happened to you?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
No, I'm sure it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I don't have to say it.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I an.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I realize I don't have the right to ask you
to marry me.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You know what I mean. You get all the money
in the world. I have nothing, except said the little lair.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I wasn't thinking of money.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
I have more than enough for both of us.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I just like to be sure you meant what you.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
Said about loving me.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You're not a child I am. Couldn't you tell what
you know?
Speaker 8 (11:35):
I think I do? Yes, I do, I know, Darling.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
It comes to guid you, uh see your not ceremony?
You be uh ready to go back?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Now? Yes? All ready?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Annah, Yes you are ready, aren't you?
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Paul?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Ready to start planning your life with Diane. Your only
worry is Jane, and you wish now you had never
brought her into the picture. But you're certain you can
handle her. As you and Diane returned to the Laureli
and you walk Diane to her bungalow, you're certain evening
with Diane has been the most profitable evening you've ever spent.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Darling, I guess this is game.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Good night, PAULA.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Luncheon tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
No, I promised to spend the day with Aunt Emily.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
At the beach.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
I'll meet you for dinner for sure enough, for sure,
Good night, Darling, good night.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Water performance almost as good as the one you put
on for me when you.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Talk me into this deal.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
What are you doing here, sying?
Speaker 4 (13:15):
How long did you expect to string me along?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I'm talking about that doll from Texas. I've been paying
the bills so you could romance her out of her
diamond necklace.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
With your voice down.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
But you got a better idea.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Why take the necklace when you can have her add
all of her money?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Why not? I hope she hears me.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
She said, no, what I hear? You really are?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I think I'll tell her anyway?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
She gonywhere's near? Darnionology to you. For the next few days,
you stay out of sight of both of us.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You remember that, I'll remember precious Jane spying on you,
(14:06):
seeing you kiss Diane and her angry jealousy was very upsetting,
wasn't it, Paul.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
You decide to avoid her.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Until your understanding that Diane is a little more deafened,
till next morning. After a restless night, you leave the
hotel early and spend the day at the beach, and
a little after six that evening, you knock on the
door of Diane's book and then smile as you see
her coming up the gravel walk. You hurry forward to
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greet it. Honey, honey, it's been a long day. I
got for a merchant, forgotten a dinner date.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
I went over to the main lobby to get some cigarette.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I don't care where you were, as long as you here.
You wanted to leave. I heard about a swall little
spot which.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I'm dining with.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Godamnly, But last night you said.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I said a lot of things last night, foolish things.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I guess.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
The drums and the moon went to my head.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
What Diane, there's no sense in talking.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
About it, Paul.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
You see Jane guilty, the lady you call your sister,
came to see me this morning.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
We had quite a talk, Diane.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I can explain, I'm afraid not.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Jane explained everything very clearly, especially how you plan to
make love to me and steal much.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
She left this note for you, No where is he go?
Speaker 5 (15:27):
She took the four o'clock plane home. Now I'm saying goodbye, Paul,
and thanks for the little ride.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Paul, I'm going home. Even before I saw you with
Diane last night, I had decided to call it quits.
I've been thinking about it for several days, and now
that I am face to face with it, I cannot
bring myself to go through with any part of this deal.
Telling Diane I believe I've been you a favorite too.
(16:04):
I hope you can find a way to get back
to the States. Jane. Don't worry, baby, I will.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It looks like the end, doesn't it, Paul any hope
of a romance? But Diane's over, But you're still not
ready to forget your plans for the necklace?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And you know you must do something quickly. You leave
the hotel grounds and walk rapidly to the beach. You
need a little time to think, and when you reach
the waterfront, you enter a small cafe patronized almost exclusively
by men of the sea, and you walk straight to
the bar.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Scotching water double right, Hey you might if this one's
on me, friend, why should you buy me a drink?
I just wanted a door.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I mean buy it, then I'll get you a while
on it.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Okay, Oh sure it's okay, Hey bartend Nick.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
On the same as my friend. Here, they're on me.
He's go it, got it, Rood.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Hey, now I'll tell you why I won't have a
drink with you, because I was supposed to have a
drink with my parent.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
We had a definite engagement and he didn't show up.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Ex Roger, he had to go to a party.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You know what I did?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Know you tell me I thought, I well, I thought
he might be stolen.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You see said what I did.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I rode out to the panda two miles Hey, you
just got back about twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, yeah, my parents on the panda. She's a freighter.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
You old sky has been running between here in Hong Kong.
You have been Hong Kong.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
No, No, I haven't on man.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, thanks, it's take you out of there and and
and keep the chain.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Well yeah, he's to him.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Hey, he's to you too.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Like I was saying, I roll out to the panda
and I clim the lady go aboarding in the what.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
My pad wasn't stool in the door on.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
The soul aboard.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Everybody going to a big party just he just like
my pad left wood with the bartend maybe the party
of breakout.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Mid nice, big party last night.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
The panda's pulling out at four in the morning.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
You you say that panda goes to Hong Kong.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
You've been running between here and ng Kong for the
last ten years. It's pulling out at four in the.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Morning, that's what you said. So you rode out to
the panda. Why not? You got your own private rowbone.
Now now I just bollowed one.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
That's fifty of them along the beach, the natives using
for fishing.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
How far did you say you rode the panda?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
About two miles.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
You can't miss it.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
About four ships left in the arbor. The panda is
the furthest you have to row.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It's too far to swim. Oh yeah, I guess your
power wasn't there, though you know it will be there
on midnight.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
It's a big party.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I think you worked for bartending and around right. Oh well,
you've just solved a problem from me. Yes, you're certain
you see a solution, aren't you, Paul.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
You're certain you're going to get the Kimberly necklace, that
you'll stop at nothing to get it. Once you have it,
you'll roll out to the panda and stow away until
you're safely.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Out at sea.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
By then your diameter two in the right hand will
get you to Hong Kong. Were you sure you could
turn the necklace into cash more easily and with less
embarrassing inquiry than you could in the United States? And
you know you'll again have the opportunity for almost certain
escape that you have now.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
But first you have.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Two important details to attend to. You leave the cafe
in hurry to the Laureli Hotel.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
So you're leaving us too, mister Wilson. That's right, check it.
I'm sorry to see you go. When your sister left yesterday,
she said she expected you to stay on for some time.
Oh yes, well I did intend to, but an old
friend of mine came in unexpectedly yesterday. He wants me
to go on a three week for position with him.
You have my bill ready there, It's only two days,
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mister Wilson. Your sister paid through Friday, remember, yes, so
she did that forgotten. Is there an air freight Express
office here in this building? Not an office, but the
porter can take care of anything you want to ship.
Right across the lobby.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Where do you wish this luggage ship, mister Wilson, The
street at risk, Paul.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Wilson Crest Hotel, San Francisco Market Hotel, arrival when you please.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yes, you're certain now that you've erased any possible leads
to your getaway, aren't you, Paul? Only one obstacle remains,
the transfer of the necklace from Diane to you, and
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a little after eleven, are quietly raising the rear window
to Diane's dark in bungalow. The moonlight provides enough light
for you to make your way to the bedroom where
Diane seems to be sleeping. Soundly, reach the dresser, find
the necklace in a leather case, and then, as you're
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about to slip it into your pocket, the sudden light
almost blind you.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Stop it, Paul, Diane.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
With a gun.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
It's a habit I got into when I was prospecting
with my husband.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I haven't forgotten how to use it, so you'd.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Better hand me that necklace.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Paul, Oh, you say, man, here.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
I go my armor.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Until I get this.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
You will never get away with this.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Come on.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
That, go with me, bust me by help.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You won't so long, baby. When you wake up, I'll
be on the panda.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
For Hong Kong.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
A few hours after Paul Wilson had successfully escaped from
the island of Kaluka and climbed aboard the Panda. The
formation of planes was streaking through the chill upper air
with a special mission to perform.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Suddenly, the leader dipped me that's yes, boy, follow me
a ten second in of.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
M okay, give her on your doors.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I'm feeling off.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Now, math.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Hey, didn't we get word that the panda's crew had
been removed before we started target practice?
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Sure, that give for why? But there's a man on
leaving room.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Hold your bomb, I feel like gip. I let mine go.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
The Whistler. Listen next week when once again the United
States Air Forces in Europe present the Whistler. The Whistler
Vote with slur presented by the United States Air Forces
in Europe.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things before
I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
in the hearts of men and women who have stepped
into tatters. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Dare not speak for the third consecutive US program aimed
at bettering between the command and the host nation groups,
(01:06):
and now the Whistler's strange story escape to do.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The morning is brilliant and warm as the S S.
Slanni moves slowly towards the small primitive harbor of Kluca.
The passengers stand anxiously along the dock, taking in the
picturesque South Pacific island. It's all there, the blue lagoon
blending into the blue mountain. But the enchanting island doesn't
(01:49):
capture everyone's die.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Something interests Paul Wilson much more.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Doesn't it fall.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yes, she's standing at the rail a few yards away, unaware.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Of your stare.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
But Jane Yoki, standing beside you, has noticed your focus attention.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Paul.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
That's enough, missus. I am Kimberly.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You haven't taken your eyes off her since we came
out on deck trying.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
To catch your eye. Why you'll stop and speak to us,
Speak to us.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You've had her in a corner, chattering all the way
from San Pedro.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Jane, my sweet, gaining the love of Eddy's conference is
the most important part of our groundwork.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
You enjoy it too much to suit me.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I was selling. Once I've got our necklace, it'll be
just stealing me again.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I don't like any part of this, and.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
You asked me to stake you to this big deal.
I didn't realize it was anything like this. You never
done anything outside the.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Law before, not doing anything now I am. You're merely
merely interesting in my business venture for fifty of a
certain sixty thousand dollars profit. I forget it, Jane. I
only take a few more days and we'll be on.
I went back to the States.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You better move fast. I'm practically out of money.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It won't take long, I hope not.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I'm really set up watching you romance with Missus Diane Kimberly.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
You just might look forward to your half of that
sixty thousand dollars we'll get from Missus Kimberly's necklace.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Sure, really good he's coming.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Over, charm Jane, Yes, darling, Good morning, mister Wilson.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Hello Jane, good.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Morning, good morning. Oh it's perfect. What do you think
of Peluca?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
I had no idea it would look so primitive.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It looks okay to me. Has quite a few ships
anchored in.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
That harbor there, Yes, most of them are naval vessels,
aren't that?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
If you haven't fleets in, I guess.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well. I hope the island isn't too crowded, a little
spoil the atmosphere.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Are you and your sisters staying at the Laurelei.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
House, mister Wilson, Yes, we are, oh wonderful.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Then we'll see you, are.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Sure later on christ We'll phone you as soon as
we're settled.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Then we'll see you later. Bye bye bye, Jane.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
If you're not careful, you will ruin everything with that
nasty position.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Might like to throw that damn over the side down.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I know exactly what you're about to say.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
So just don't body anything you say in this.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Kids, Let's go ashore?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Shall we.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Ashore on Kaluka?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
The pattern is nearly the same asn't it, Pau.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Next day you phone Diane Kimberly and invite both Diane
and her aunt to dinner at the Laurel Eye House,
and Diane accepts with apparent pleasure.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
In the dining room that evening, you and Jane.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Catch your first glimpse of the diamond necklace that you
followed halfway across the Pacific. And you notice some other
things too, don't you fall Diane's breathtaking beauty, her simple
direct manner, her obvious interest in you. For the time
you've had coffee, another thought has entered your mind, hasn't
it paut an idea that makes your original plan a theft.
(05:00):
The necklace seemed trivial by comparison. You managed to maneuver
things so cleverly that a few minutes after dinner you
find yourself alone with Diane on the moonlit hotel terrace.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I never imagined anything would be a lovely as There's
something like this in the little towns I've.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Lived in little towns, yes, from Alaska to Uruguays.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Your husband was a traveling man.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Of a kind.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
He always wanted to strike it rich.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Even the report of a gold strike drew him like
a magnet. After we were married, I went with him
at least to the nearest.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Towns, real grabsteaker uh and an investor.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Practically every penny we could scrape together when into mining stocks, nearly.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
All of them proved worthless.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That's usually a story.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
He was killed in an accident three years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
At the time of the year, we had nothing. I
went to live with my Aunt Emily in Longview. We
had to take in boarders for a while, but Joe
did leave me five thousand years than a gold mine
in Uruguay and they are yes six months later. Joe's
mind proved to be one of the richest in the world.
(06:25):
It brings in more money every.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Year than Aunt Emily, and I could spend.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Him three lifetimes.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Paula, I think we know each other well enough.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Now to drop the missus Kimberly, don't you That suits me?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Danne. But you don't know very much about me, very little.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
All I know is you have a sister.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Both of you come from San Francisco, and you're both
very pleasant company.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
That isn't enough. So what you say tomorrow morning at
nine o'clock, I'll pick you up and then we'll explore
Kaluka together, the whole island, the two of us.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That sounds fascinating. Events seemed to be shaping themselves very
(07:44):
nicely for you, don't say, Paul. Even before Diane kimberly
told you her own story of her heavy mining interests,
you were aware she was one of America's wealthiest young women.
And you're sure she's more than ordinarily.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Interested in you.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Then, if you're careful under the tropical skyes magic spell
of Calucca, you might marry her before you leave the island.
Next day's trip around the island is followed by dinner
and dancing, and three days later, with the help of
a well tipped native bell boy, you'dn't for a guide
to take you and Diane in a secret trip to
(08:23):
a well hidden spot in the mountain where the two
of you are able to view the sulam seen native
religious ceremony.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
You here, we stop, We get out now, Paul, listener,
look at that bonfire.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Ah, this good place to watch.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
You stay?
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Guess we'll stay here? How good? Good? No trouble?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You stay here.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I come back soon.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Can you remember I going back soon?
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Is he leaving us here alone?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
We'll be all right. I ad luck there by the fire.
I just watch very few people get to see this.
I think this is known as take way. Did I've
read the story? You see that native girl dancing like? Yes? Chat?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
If I recall the legend, she represents a girl who
was in love with the Prolynation King. The king was
in love with her too, but he couldn't marry her
without giving up his storms, so out of her love
for him, the girl threw herself into a volcano.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Watching this, I can believe that legend.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I've never seen.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Anything so primitively beautiful. I almost wish I could stay
here like this.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Always like this, hm.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
With me beside you.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Well, I look at me, Dan, Yes, Paul, I better
call the guide and step it back. Why, I'm because
you have the most beautiful player in the world. We
stay here one more minute?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
You what?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Dan?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
What?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I love you? Diane Paul, I don't say anything. I
know I spoke too quickly, that we've only known each
other just a little while.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
But I oh, I only've known each other.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
It's important. But what are you sure this isn't just
a the occasional man.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
That it isn't.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Then related drums.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Of music, say what happened to you?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
No, I'm sure it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I don't have to say it.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I an.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I realize I don't have the right to ask you
to marry me.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You know what I mean. You get all the money
in the world. I have nothing, except said the little lair.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I wasn't thinking of money.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
I have more than enough for both of us.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I just like to be sure you meant what you.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
Said about loving me.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You're not a child I am. Couldn't you tell what
you know?
Speaker 8 (11:35):
I think I do? Yes, I do, I know, Darling.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
It comes to guid you, uh see your not ceremony?
You be uh ready to go back?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Now? Yes? All ready?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Annah, Yes you are ready, aren't you?
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Paul?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Ready to start planning your life with Diane. Your only
worry is Jane, and you wish now you had never
brought her into the picture. But you're certain you can
handle her. As you and Diane returned to the Laureli
and you walk Diane to her bungalow, you're certain evening
with Diane has been the most profitable evening you've ever spent.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Darling, I guess this is game.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Good night, PAULA.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Luncheon tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
No, I promised to spend the day with Aunt Emily.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
At the beach.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
I'll meet you for dinner for sure enough, for sure,
Good night, Darling, good night.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Water performance almost as good as the one you put
on for me when you.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Talk me into this deal.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
What are you doing here, sying?
Speaker 4 (13:15):
How long did you expect to string me along?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I'm talking about that doll from Texas. I've been paying
the bills so you could romance her out of her
diamond necklace.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
With your voice down.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
But you got a better idea.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Why take the necklace when you can have her add
all of her money?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Why not? I hope she hears me.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
She said, no, what I hear? You really are?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I think I'll tell her anyway?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
She gonywhere's near? Darnionology to you. For the next few days,
you stay out of sight of both of us.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You remember that, I'll remember precious Jane spying on you,
(14:06):
seeing you kiss Diane and her angry jealousy was very upsetting,
wasn't it, Paul.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
You decide to avoid her.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Until your understanding that Diane is a little more deafened,
till next morning. After a restless night, you leave the
hotel early and spend the day at the beach, and
a little after six that evening, you knock on the
door of Diane's book and then smile as you see
her coming up the gravel walk. You hurry forward to
(14:33):
greet it. Honey, honey, it's been a long day. I
got for a merchant, forgotten a dinner date.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
I went over to the main lobby to get some cigarette.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I don't care where you were, as long as you here.
You wanted to leave. I heard about a swall little
spot which.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I'm dining with.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Godamnly, But last night you said.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I said a lot of things last night, foolish things.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I guess.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
The drums and the moon went to my head.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
What Diane, there's no sense in talking.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
About it, Paul.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
You see Jane guilty, the lady you call your sister,
came to see me this morning.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
We had quite a talk, Diane.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I can explain, I'm afraid not.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Jane explained everything very clearly, especially how you plan to
make love to me and steal much.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
She left this note for you, No where is he go?
Speaker 5 (15:27):
She took the four o'clock plane home. Now I'm saying goodbye, Paul,
and thanks for the little ride.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Paul, I'm going home. Even before I saw you with
Diane last night, I had decided to call it quits.
I've been thinking about it for several days, and now
that I am face to face with it, I cannot
bring myself to go through with any part of this deal.
Telling Diane I believe I've been you a favorite too.
(16:04):
I hope you can find a way to get back
to the States. Jane. Don't worry, baby, I will.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It looks like the end, doesn't it, Paul any hope
of a romance? But Diane's over, But you're still not
ready to forget your plans for the necklace?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And you know you must do something quickly. You leave
the hotel grounds and walk rapidly to the beach. You
need a little time to think, and when you reach
the waterfront, you enter a small cafe patronized almost exclusively
by men of the sea, and you walk straight to
the bar.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Scotching water double right, Hey you might if this one's
on me, friend, why should you buy me a drink?
I just wanted a door.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I mean buy it, then I'll get you a while
on it.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Okay, Oh sure it's okay, Hey bartend Nick.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
On the same as my friend. Here, they're on me.
He's go it, got it, Rood.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Hey, now I'll tell you why I won't have a
drink with you, because I was supposed to have a
drink with my parent.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
We had a definite engagement and he didn't show up.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Ex Roger, he had to go to a party.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You know what I did?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Know you tell me I thought, I well, I thought
he might be stolen.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You see said what I did.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I rode out to the panda two miles Hey, you
just got back about twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, yeah, my parents on the panda. She's a freighter.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
You old sky has been running between here in Hong Kong.
You have been Hong Kong.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
No, No, I haven't on man.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, thanks, it's take you out of there and and
and keep the chain.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Well yeah, he's to him.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Hey, he's to you too.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Like I was saying, I roll out to the panda
and I clim the lady go aboarding in the what.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
My pad wasn't stool in the door on.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
The soul aboard.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Everybody going to a big party just he just like
my pad left wood with the bartend maybe the party
of breakout.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Mid nice, big party last night.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
The panda's pulling out at four in the morning.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
You you say that panda goes to Hong Kong.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
You've been running between here and ng Kong for the
last ten years. It's pulling out at four in the.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Morning, that's what you said. So you rode out to
the panda. Why not? You got your own private rowbone.
Now now I just bollowed one.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
That's fifty of them along the beach, the natives using
for fishing.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
How far did you say you rode the panda?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
About two miles.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
You can't miss it.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
About four ships left in the arbor. The panda is
the furthest you have to row.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It's too far to swim. Oh yeah, I guess your
power wasn't there, though you know it will be there
on midnight.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
It's a big party.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I think you worked for bartending and around right. Oh well,
you've just solved a problem from me. Yes, you're certain
you see a solution, aren't you, Paul.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
You're certain you're going to get the Kimberly necklace, that
you'll stop at nothing to get it. Once you have it,
you'll roll out to the panda and stow away until
you're safely.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Out at sea.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
By then your diameter two in the right hand will
get you to Hong Kong. Were you sure you could
turn the necklace into cash more easily and with less
embarrassing inquiry than you could in the United States? And
you know you'll again have the opportunity for almost certain
escape that you have now.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
But first you have.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Two important details to attend to. You leave the cafe
in hurry to the Laureli Hotel.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
So you're leaving us too, mister Wilson. That's right, check it.
I'm sorry to see you go. When your sister left yesterday,
she said she expected you to stay on for some time.
Oh yes, well I did intend to, but an old
friend of mine came in unexpectedly yesterday. He wants me
to go on a three week for position with him.
You have my bill ready there, It's only two days,
(20:17):
mister Wilson. Your sister paid through Friday, remember, yes, so
she did that forgotten. Is there an air freight Express
office here in this building? Not an office, but the
porter can take care of anything you want to ship.
Right across the lobby.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Where do you wish this luggage ship, mister Wilson, The
street at risk, Paul.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Wilson Crest Hotel, San Francisco Market Hotel, arrival when you please.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yes, you're certain now that you've erased any possible leads
to your getaway, aren't you, Paul? Only one obstacle remains,
the transfer of the necklace from Diane to you, and
(21:15):
a little after eleven, are quietly raising the rear window
to Diane's dark in bungalow. The moonlight provides enough light
for you to make your way to the bedroom where
Diane seems to be sleeping. Soundly, reach the dresser, find
the necklace in a leather case, and then, as you're
(21:38):
about to slip it into your pocket, the sudden light
almost blind you.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Stop it, Paul, Diane.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
With a gun.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
It's a habit I got into when I was prospecting
with my husband.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I haven't forgotten how to use it, so you'd.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Better hand me that necklace.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Paul, Oh, you say, man, here.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
I go my armor.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Until I get this.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
You will never get away with this.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Come on.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
That, go with me, bust me by help.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You won't so long, baby. When you wake up, I'll
be on the panda.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
For Hong Kong.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
A few hours after Paul Wilson had successfully escaped from
the island of Kaluka and climbed aboard the Panda. The
formation of planes was streaking through the chill upper air
with a special mission to perform.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Suddenly, the leader dipped me that's yes, boy, follow me
a ten second in of.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
M okay, give her on your doors.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I'm feeling off.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Now, math.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Hey, didn't we get word that the panda's crew had
been removed before we started target practice?
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Sure, that give for why? But there's a man on
leaving room.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Hold your bomb, I feel like gip. I let mine go.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
The Whistler. Listen next week when once again the United
States Air Forces in Europe present the Whistler. The Whistler
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