August 21, 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 (00:01):
And now stay tuned for the program that has rated
tops in popularity for a longer period of time than
any other West Coast program in radio history, The Signal
Oil Program, the Whistler Signal, the famous Go Farther Gasoline.
(00:29):
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 have stepped
into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler Strange Story,
the Golden Penny.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
The tall, lean young man strode up the gravel pad
with an easy gait, and now standing on the crest
of the hill, he had reached his goal, the Tremont Mansion.
After five years of searching. He was certain the Tremont's
Rodney Tremont in particular, were exactly suited to his knees.
He stepped up to the flagstone entrance, walked to the
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door and pushed the button.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yes, sir, I'm Bertram Lowen. Tremont is expecting me.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Oh, yes, come in, sir, this way, he's in the library,
mister Tremont, mister Loewen, sir, oh.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Yes, Loewan, come in, come in very well, well down, Loan,
and then we'll get to.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
You in a moment. But first, what do you know
about me?
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Your name is Rodney Tremont. You apparently have a lot
of money. You have a sixty five foot yacht named
the Golden Penny. You want someone to run it for you?
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Tell me, Loan? Are you always this direct?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Always good?
Speaker 6 (02:44):
All right?
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Now, let me fill in some of the things you
don't know about me. The columnists like to refer to
me as a playboy fortune hutter who found one and
married it.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
I don't believe half that I see or anything that
I hear.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
All the columnts have me pegged just about ride, but
they only suggest that I'm a heel by some standards.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Of course I am. Are you a heel too?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Loewen by some standards? Now I guess we've reached one
point of understanding. You let us, as your experience to navigation,
know all about diesel engines, like if you an edge
on me. I don't know the first thing about engines,
and I don't want to learn.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Being Skipper of the Golden Penny.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Will be a job. Knew I have the job.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Let's see here.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I put your letter.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Oh heard it?
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Diesel engineer, navigator single thirty five.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
They golf in the seventies.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Ex football star, big game hunter and guide expert on skis.
You do just about everything, poker bridge, rummy, checkers, everything
except the one thing that's.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Most important, Lan, You mean chess.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Of course I do well.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
I didn't mention chess, because you see, I'm almost unbeatable
at poker bridge, rummy and checkers, and at chess I
am unbeatable.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Consider that a challenge, Loan, and I'll accept it right now.
Speaker 8 (04:21):
I'm sorry. I didn't know you had to.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Get This is mister Lowan.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I spoke to you about him.
Speaker 8 (04:25):
Oh yes, how do you do, mister Loan, missus Tremont.
My goodness, mister.
Speaker 9 (04:28):
Loane, I read your qualifications by you sound just like
Richard Hallibut, and only more so.
Speaker 8 (04:32):
Have you written any books?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I'm sorry I haven't.
Speaker 9 (04:35):
Now I really can't abide your mister Loan. Deep sea
fishing boards me to death, and my loath chess. Honestly,
sometimes I'm hard put to understand just why Rodney did
marry me.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I've told you, Pet, it was your money. Of course,
I remember you don't take her seriously, Lowen. What she
isn't telling you is that she's already.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Hired a companion.
Speaker 9 (04:56):
Oh well, now, Delius Quinn of the story, Delius my
secretary as well, mister Loan, and I do need one.
I'm not the well organized type at all. Besides, Rodney,
I've never seen you leave the room when she comes in.
But forgive us, we're not quarreling.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Really, this is just our unique way of blending.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I'm sure it is.
Speaker 9 (05:16):
Do hire this man, Rodney, I like him.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
See you later, Thank you, missus, Tremont see dinner, Pet.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Wow another the hurricane has blown itself out. Chess tey
was all set up. I make my best decisions on
the outcome of a chess game.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Give you a sporting chance.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
If you beat me, you're hired.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
He's a strange man, Rodney Treemount, isn't he Bert? Not
quite what you'd expected. You're certain he's just what he said,
a fortune hunter who found one and married it. He
interested you because in a way you're very much alike
except Rodney's ten years older. You wonder if he's ten
years wiser. His chest is far better than you thought
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it would be. But finally, after an hour or so,
you make one last conclusive move.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Check me.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Brilliant, brilliant, beautiful game.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I'm glad you like it. Pin yourself a job, you know.
I think you can stand it here, I think I can.
The day I can't, I'll just steal your yacht and
silently sail away.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
How about your word.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
At the Excuse me, mister Tremont, Oh, excuse me, but
Missus Tremont says, dinner will be ready in.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Half an hour. Game, just in time. Loan, Adelia.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
This is bertrand Lowan. Is you Ramsey, missus Trumont's secretary.
Extraordinary good girl. Didn't show Burt to his quarters. I
have a call to make before dinner.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Welcome stranger.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Did you get the job I did? You've case the
deal very well up here. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
Don't underestimating he's smart.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Three months I know Ye're sure he's got one hundred
grand of his own.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
She gave it to him as wedding present.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
She's very proud of herself for it.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Told me all.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
About it as he mentioned it.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
Told me all about it too. He's very proud of himself.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Good. We won't talk anymore. Now, better show me to
my quarters. We'll talk later.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
You are proud of Delia, aren't you, Bert. She's done
a good job of advance work and the tree months.
You've got to move slowly, now, cautiously in the first
few weeks, go along quickly and pleasantly. After a while
you begin to wonder when Dlia is going to make
her next move. And then one night, late after missus
Tremont has retired, you walk under the terrace for one
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last cigarette before turning in.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
What excuse me? It's all right, pee Tony Bird.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Sorry, I didn't expect to see you, obviously, we didn't
expect to see.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Who if if you'll excuse me, I think I'll go
in now. I do believe you've unsettled Delia. Bird looks
like him anyway, now, you know.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Look, I told you when I first came, I believe
only half. I see nothing I hear. I'm counting on that.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Happy Wise, for you and Delia to show an interest
in one another might throw missus Tremont off the track.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You think she suspects.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Hmmm, that's a precaution until I decide what to do.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
You start seeing Delia right away.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
You wonder what the two of them are up to.
Delia in particular, wonder whether she's whipped you or against you.
It could be a perfect setup for murder Bert, for
with missus Tremont out of the way, Delia and Rodney
would have millions instead of thousands. You decide to have
a show down with Delia and the next day you
get your chance. The two of you are alone in
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a library.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
I'm sorry about last night.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Birds just a week moment, I guess nothing more.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
What's it like kissing four million dollars?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Any better than this? Nothing's better than that.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
Okay, Look, what's the deal between you and Tremont? I
told you not to work too fast.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
To go too far, and I told you it was
just a weak moment.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
That's all.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
How would he look to you, missus Tremont suddenly out
of the way. Do you want him and four million bucks?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
I don't want him in ten I'm just following orders.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Remember, Chief, I was supposed to interest him, wasn't it.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Tremond isn't the kind of a dope who goes into
a huddle with himself and cooks up a murder, not
even for millions.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
Bert, for heaven's sake, who said anything about murder?
Speaker 7 (10:14):
I did, don't get me wrong, kid, But strange mushrooms
have been known to sprout, and dark little cellars like you.
Poisoned ones taken separately and tremont are harmless. But together
and out of control, you're a bad combination. I know
all about dark cellars.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
I'm sure you do, all right.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Don't believe me when I tell you he can't get
the four million, but if we work it my way,
we can get the golden penny and his hundred grand.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
That's what I want. What do you want?
Speaker 9 (10:45):
Do you.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Do you think we can swing at your way?
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Review is big, yes, but get this murderers out. It's sloppy, tedious.
My plans. Keep everything clean. I'll play it smooth and
remember the heavy emotion is out too. I know how
well you can play the role of a temptress. Stone
overdo it.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
That's better. Bert.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
For a while there, I sus you'd forgotten.
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Speaker 2 (12:35):
Station, everything seems calm again, doesn't it burt? After use
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Delia straight and once more you feel certain that before
too long you'll make the golden penny and Rodney Tremont's
hundred thousand dollars all your own. You've carefully schooled Delia
on how to handle Rodney in front of Missus Tremont,
and he's responded just as you felt he would. With
Delia cooling, Rodney can't hide his feelings about her, and
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Missus Tremont is upset. All this according to your plan.
One afternoon, you decide it's time to let Missus Tremont
confide him as she so obviously wants to do. She
asks you to join her in the rose garden.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
I don't really like the way I'm handling miss miss Loane.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
After all, you are Rodney's fending confident, and he's so
proud of you, especially your chess game.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
M is here to beat you.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I let him win every fourth game just to keep
an understain.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
Oh my, it's so good to laugh.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
It's just a tonic to have you round, miss lad
Just a tonic.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
M What can I say?
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Well, you could say that I'm just boom mister Loane.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
If that's what I am.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Fool in love with a younger man, wonderful nobody, that is,
he used to be wonderful now I'm not so sure.
Speaker 9 (14:12):
I hate to think of leaving him. But do you
think Rodney is that he's in?
Speaker 7 (14:22):
Is that what's on your mind? Missus Tremont. Why, bless
your heart. Your husband's as straight as an arrow. He
wouldn't consider any other woman, do you.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
She's just a kid in his a child.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Believe me, Missus Tremont, I know rod and I have
discussed women by the hour.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
No, ma'am you having a thing to worry about.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Oh, mister Loring, You've made me very happy here. He
is lovely and such a comfort. I do hope it
can stay that way.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
I can in the world, Missus Treumont. You know, I
think I know exactly what the situation needs.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
Really, I'm willing to do anything. You know.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Well, I could talk rud and leaving you for just
a few weeks cruise, cruise would do wonders for that
restless feeling of his, That's all it is.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Not.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
You know what they say about absence, Missus Tremont. But
when he gets back, you'll be eating right out of
your hand. That's a promise, you.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Know, mister Lewan.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
I believe you're right.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
This devotion to diesels is beyond me. What's that thing
you're pussing with now? All that it's called the gravity tank? Oh,
fuel goes from here right into the fuel injection system
for th time. Well, it's all Greek to me, you know, Bert,
there must have been women who would be very jealous
of the loving.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
Care you give that engine.
Speaker 11 (15:54):
I know about more about diesels than I do about women.
But me it's just the reverse, thank you, Evan.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Funny now that I think about it, they have more
in common.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Than you'd think.
Speaker 11 (16:04):
Both of them look simple, act complicated, stand up under
heavy pressure, feel.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
The pieces of a little thing.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Well what true of women? Anyway?
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Although I can't imagine any little thing that would follow
up that hans thro of an engine, A little thing like.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Like sugar would do it? Really, sugar in the gravity tank.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
So that manual there will tell you that to create
a mess of diesel electure, it couldn't fix four hours days.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Maybe believe me, I'll take your word for it. It's
enough for me to know that too much sugar and
women don't make. Now, can't we give the engine the rest?
Speaker 9 (16:39):
Just?
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Racing it here? Anchored my own harbor too much like
treading water? When I really want to be in the swift.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
Oh, that's in good shape if we ever do decide
to go anywhere.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
What was that you were saying last night about some
island in the Caribbean.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
Hm?
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Oh, like I said, the days run from Kingston. That's
in Jamaica. Perfect for you, Indedia, tropical fruits, bubbling springs
of clear, cool water and fishing. Man, you've never seen
anything like it. Small sheltered harbor, perfect angle, about ten
square mile?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Is it?
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Inhabitants sure?
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Monkeys, smart monkeys, though they live like kings.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
The days run from Kingston, it shouldn't take too long
to get there.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Then not too long.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
But then with me, it's just a dream because I
haven't got the money. The yacht Noddia, you've got them
all right.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Rodney falls for a Dozendee bird, just as Missus Tremont did,
but for different reasons. You convinced him that he has all.
It takes the money. The yacht Delia. Delia carries out
her part perfectly. She's quit and Missus Tremont believes she's
gone to visit her mother. But you and Rodney know
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she'll be waiting to board the Golden Penny at your
first stop down the coast. It wasn't easy, but you
finally managed to convince Rodney that this trip might be
just the beginning of a cruise that could take him
anywhere that he'll be so happy with Delia he may
never want a return to Missus Tremont. In that case,
he'll want to take his entire fortune of one hundred
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thousand dollars with him. And at last, when the money
is in the wall safe of the master cabin you
put to sea, you refuel at the port of San
Juan and stock the galley to your liking, because from
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here on it's your cruise, isn't it. Bert Delia keeps
Rodney sufficiently occupied going ashore, seeing the sight. He pays
no attention at all to anything you do. You leave
San Juan long before dawn, but it's late morning before
Rodney appears, and he seems quite excited.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Bert A, Thompson and Miller with you. Oh, a mechanic
in the deckhand? Where are they? I've looked all over
for them.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
I dis missed them in San Juan, told them I
wouldn't need them anymore. Why I don't want them in
my way? I don't want anyone in my way. Rod,
not you, not anyone?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
What? Oh, that's it. You dismissed the crew. Now you're
going to get rid of me. I suppose then you'll
have the yacht money. How stupid? Can I get?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Easy? Does it? Ride?
Speaker 10 (19:44):
What's wrong?
Speaker 11 (19:45):
I've been listening to the deckhand is not a sign
of the crew anywhere.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Rod just mentioned that too. I told him, easy does it?
Speaker 6 (19:51):
What I'm going to do, We'll be easy, Believe me.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
They gunnaway? Rod, Think a minute. Suppose you kill me.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
You don't know what thing about engines or about navigation.
The ocean current we're in right now will eventually deposit
you in the equatorial calms.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Death would be slow there.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
But the galley's loaded. We'd be picked up in time.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
With a temperature at one hundred and twenty day a night,
you'd be at each.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Other's throats in three days.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
You get you've planned this all along? Oh? Please both?
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Oh, and don't forget the sudden squalls in that area.
Takes an expert to ride them out, even under power
shots in those waters. To think of the Delia ride,
poor girl.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Ride, Please, I'm frightened, all right?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
How much do you want? Bert take the yacht.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
No, the yacht and fifty thousand dollars. Only take Delian
me back to San Juan.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Get the gun out of your hand ride, replace it
with a straight Scotch. You'll need it.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Why didn't you take the yacht and the money last night?
You had the chance.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Deli and I were ashore in San Juan. You know
the combination to the safe. I even trusted you that much.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
You. Oh, it's Delia you want.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
That's up to Delia. She can come along with me
if she wants to.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
You see, you underestimate me ride. Any chess player knows
that's bad. The insurance company has blueprints of this yacht.
It's custom made, very distinctive. I'd be picked up at
the first court. Then what do you intend to do?
You might have known I'd give you a sporting chance?
How is your chess game today?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Rod?
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Is that your idea of a sporting chance?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
That's right?
Speaker 6 (21:31):
One game?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
When I take all the yacht, the contents of the
safe and Delia, well, I like that me part of.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
A chess game.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
The queen, my dear. But this is no time for chivalry.
You could lose, you know, Birs.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I do you give me fair back to the States.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
But if I win, you give me a bill of
sale of the golden penny and a signed statement that
I won the money in a game of skill.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
A deal all the deal I can expect. I guess
all right, Bert.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
You're on good Take the wheeld it in.
Speaker 10 (22:04):
I wouldn't know what to do with didn't you know?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Okay, just cut the engine and heaved too.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
This is it, isn't it, Burton? Everything just the way
you've planned it, You're confident. Is the two of you
set up the chess game right there in the pilot house.
Delia now opening your ally, watch as silently as the
game progresses. After more than an hour, you have Rod
exactly where you want it.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
It doesn't look too good for me.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Does it. But I beat you once before when you
had me like this.
Speaker 11 (22:44):
Remember mm hmmm, it took eight hours in a long
walk around the estate between plays.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
To do it.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
How about giving me fifteen minutes and a walk around
the deck this time?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Sure, go ahead, fifteen minutes It is if you.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Aren't back and moved in that time, though, and I'll
concede the game is yours fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Then I'll be right here waiting for you.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
I'ms up according to my watch.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Well I'm licked Bert, and I know it. Best man
one and all that sort of thing. He is the
best man.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Isn't he, Delia?
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I think so right, both of you. Well, I hand
you that pen and paper from the desk, and I'll
make this piracy on the high seas legal.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
This is to certify that I roden Cremont for value
received to sell to birk from flowing my yart, the
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golden penny and.
Speaker 12 (24:13):
All decent w you to offer me the shore boat
and five gallons of gas.
Speaker 11 (24:25):
Don't forget the only way to get rid of you?
All right, then you go, I'll help lower you.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Good, you say?
Speaker 10 (24:35):
If I head you south from here, I'll hit the
pan what can't miss it by more than six inches? Bouvoyage?
Speaker 11 (24:46):
Thanks well, goodbye, No heart, you kidding, of course not.
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Speaker 2 (26:16):
Well, Bert, it's over. You and Delia stand arm in
arm on the deck of the Golden Penny, peering out
under the horizon until the shore boat bearing Rodney Tremont
the San Juan becomes a speck in the South Atlantic
and then disappears entirely. Everything's gone just as you planned,
hasn't it, Bert, the Golden Penny. The contents of the
cabin safe and Delia. They're all yours now, just as
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you knew they would be. Now you are certain the
ports of the world are yours too, to enter and
leave whenever you like.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
A Oh goodness, where.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
Did that wind come from?
Speaker 9 (26:51):
No?
Speaker 10 (26:51):
No, oh, that sky to the north and east.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Oh it's so Blackbert the.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Storm all right, Alulu, No, we can write it out. No,
he was trying to run from it. Have to head
into it at full power. Rome, I'll get it started, Obert.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Will it be all right?
Speaker 11 (27:07):
Well, baby, only hurry along now. We don't get to
sixty five foot underway before the storm hits full We're
in rail trouble.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
On.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
I'm frightened, Bertie, after everything.
Speaker 11 (27:15):
We did to Roden, you never make it to San
Lan at the rate this thing's blowing up.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Better off with me, baby, and mister Beagle's pettan't mention.
Speaker 11 (27:24):
Ah, here we go now, see baby, you got anything
to worry about?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (27:31):
Thanks, we'll make it now hit its full power. What
what is it?
Speaker 8 (27:36):
What's wrong?
Speaker 10 (27:37):
I don't know for a minute. You need to be
getting any fuel.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
It's funny.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
I'll take a look at the fuel line.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
I'll be.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Thirty.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
It's sugar.
Speaker 10 (27:55):
What sugar? Lots of it in the gravity tank, Hilbert. Look,
they're on the floor of that book.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
There's a note on it.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
But thanks for giving me fifteen minutes and that tip
about sugar.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
This was the only move I could think of, and
your manual on diesel engines was most helpful. I'm taking
the money from the safe too. From what you said
about these waters, I don't think you will have much
use for money. Goodbye, and no hard feelings, huh.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
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Speaker 2 (29:11):
Why.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Featured in Tonight's story were Bill Foreman, Lamont Johnson, and
Barry Kroger. The Whistler was produced by George Allen, directed
by Robert Hafter, with story by Jack Conrad, music by
Wilbur Hatch, and was transmitted to our troops overseas by
the Armed Forces radio service. The Whistler is entirely fictional,
and all characters portrayed on the Whistler are also fictional.
Any similarity of names or resemblance to persons living or
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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 have stepped
into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler Strange Story,
the Golden Penny.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
The tall, lean young man strode up the gravel pad
with an easy gait, and now standing on the crest
of the hill, he had reached his goal, the Tremont Mansion.
After five years of searching. He was certain the Tremont's
Rodney Tremont in particular, were exactly suited to his knees.
He stepped up to the flagstone entrance, walked to the
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door and pushed the button.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yes, sir, I'm Bertram Lowen. Tremont is expecting me.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Oh, yes, come in, sir, this way, he's in the library,
mister Tremont, mister Loewen, sir, oh.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Yes, Loewan, come in, come in very well, well down, Loan,
and then we'll get to.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
You in a moment. But first, what do you know
about me?
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Your name is Rodney Tremont. You apparently have a lot
of money. You have a sixty five foot yacht named
the Golden Penny. You want someone to run it for you?
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Tell me, Loan? Are you always this direct?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Always good?
Speaker 6 (02:44):
All right?
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Now, let me fill in some of the things you
don't know about me. The columnists like to refer to
me as a playboy fortune hutter who found one and
married it.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
I don't believe half that I see or anything that
I hear.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
All the columnts have me pegged just about ride, but
they only suggest that I'm a heel by some standards.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Of course I am. Are you a heel too?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Loewen by some standards? Now I guess we've reached one
point of understanding. You let us, as your experience to navigation,
know all about diesel engines, like if you an edge
on me. I don't know the first thing about engines,
and I don't want to learn.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Being Skipper of the Golden Penny.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Will be a job. Knew I have the job.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Let's see here.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I put your letter.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Oh heard it?
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Diesel engineer, navigator single thirty five.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
They golf in the seventies.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Ex football star, big game hunter and guide expert on skis.
You do just about everything, poker bridge, rummy, checkers, everything
except the one thing that's.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Most important, Lan, You mean chess.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Of course I do well.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
I didn't mention chess, because you see, I'm almost unbeatable
at poker bridge, rummy and checkers, and at chess I
am unbeatable.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Consider that a challenge, Loan, and I'll accept it right now.
Speaker 8 (04:21):
I'm sorry. I didn't know you had to.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Get This is mister Lowan.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I spoke to you about him.
Speaker 8 (04:25):
Oh yes, how do you do, mister Loan, missus Tremont.
My goodness, mister.
Speaker 9 (04:28):
Loane, I read your qualifications by you sound just like
Richard Hallibut, and only more so.
Speaker 8 (04:32):
Have you written any books?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I'm sorry I haven't.
Speaker 9 (04:35):
Now I really can't abide your mister Loan. Deep sea
fishing boards me to death, and my loath chess. Honestly,
sometimes I'm hard put to understand just why Rodney did
marry me.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I've told you, Pet, it was your money. Of course,
I remember you don't take her seriously, Lowen. What she
isn't telling you is that she's already.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Hired a companion.
Speaker 9 (04:56):
Oh well, now, Delius Quinn of the story, Delius my
secretary as well, mister Loan, and I do need one.
I'm not the well organized type at all. Besides, Rodney,
I've never seen you leave the room when she comes in.
But forgive us, we're not quarreling.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Really, this is just our unique way of blending.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I'm sure it is.
Speaker 9 (05:16):
Do hire this man, Rodney, I like him.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
See you later, Thank you, missus, Tremont see dinner, Pet.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Wow another the hurricane has blown itself out. Chess tey
was all set up. I make my best decisions on
the outcome of a chess game.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Give you a sporting chance.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
If you beat me, you're hired.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
He's a strange man, Rodney Treemount, isn't he Bert? Not
quite what you'd expected. You're certain he's just what he said,
a fortune hunter who found one and married it. He
interested you because in a way you're very much alike
except Rodney's ten years older. You wonder if he's ten
years wiser. His chest is far better than you thought
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it would be. But finally, after an hour or so,
you make one last conclusive move.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Check me.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Brilliant, brilliant, beautiful game.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I'm glad you like it. Pin yourself a job, you know.
I think you can stand it here, I think I can.
The day I can't, I'll just steal your yacht and
silently sail away.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
How about your word.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
At the Excuse me, mister Tremont, Oh, excuse me, but
Missus Tremont says, dinner will be ready in.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Half an hour. Game, just in time. Loan, Adelia.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
This is bertrand Lowan. Is you Ramsey, missus Trumont's secretary.
Extraordinary good girl. Didn't show Burt to his quarters. I
have a call to make before dinner.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Welcome stranger.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Did you get the job I did? You've case the
deal very well up here. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
Don't underestimating he's smart.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Three months I know Ye're sure he's got one hundred
grand of his own.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
She gave it to him as wedding present.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
She's very proud of herself for it.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Told me all.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
About it as he mentioned it.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
Told me all about it too. He's very proud of himself.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Good. We won't talk anymore. Now, better show me to
my quarters. We'll talk later.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
You are proud of Delia, aren't you, Bert. She's done
a good job of advance work and the tree months.
You've got to move slowly, now, cautiously in the first
few weeks, go along quickly and pleasantly. After a while
you begin to wonder when Dlia is going to make
her next move. And then one night, late after missus
Tremont has retired, you walk under the terrace for one
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last cigarette before turning in.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
What excuse me? It's all right, pee Tony Bird.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Sorry, I didn't expect to see you, obviously, we didn't
expect to see.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Who if if you'll excuse me, I think I'll go
in now. I do believe you've unsettled Delia. Bird looks
like him anyway, now, you know.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Look, I told you when I first came, I believe
only half. I see nothing I hear. I'm counting on that.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Happy Wise, for you and Delia to show an interest
in one another might throw missus Tremont off the track.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You think she suspects.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Hmmm, that's a precaution until I decide what to do.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
You start seeing Delia right away.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
You wonder what the two of them are up to.
Delia in particular, wonder whether she's whipped you or against you.
It could be a perfect setup for murder Bert, for
with missus Tremont out of the way, Delia and Rodney
would have millions instead of thousands. You decide to have
a show down with Delia and the next day you
get your chance. The two of you are alone in
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a library.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
I'm sorry about last night.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Birds just a week moment, I guess nothing more.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
What's it like kissing four million dollars?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Any better than this? Nothing's better than that.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
Okay, Look, what's the deal between you and Tremont? I
told you not to work too fast.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
To go too far, and I told you it was
just a weak moment.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
That's all.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
How would he look to you, missus Tremont suddenly out
of the way. Do you want him and four million bucks?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
I don't want him in ten I'm just following orders.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Remember, Chief, I was supposed to interest him, wasn't it.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Tremond isn't the kind of a dope who goes into
a huddle with himself and cooks up a murder, not
even for millions.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
Bert, for heaven's sake, who said anything about murder?
Speaker 7 (10:14):
I did, don't get me wrong, kid, But strange mushrooms
have been known to sprout, and dark little cellars like you.
Poisoned ones taken separately and tremont are harmless. But together
and out of control, you're a bad combination. I know
all about dark cellars.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
I'm sure you do, all right.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Don't believe me when I tell you he can't get
the four million, but if we work it my way,
we can get the golden penny and his hundred grand.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
That's what I want. What do you want?
Speaker 9 (10:45):
Do you.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Do you think we can swing at your way?
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Review is big, yes, but get this murderers out. It's sloppy, tedious.
My plans. Keep everything clean. I'll play it smooth and
remember the heavy emotion is out too. I know how
well you can play the role of a temptress. Stone
overdo it.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
That's better. Bert.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
For a while there, I sus you'd forgotten.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
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Speaker 2 (12:35):
Station, everything seems calm again, doesn't it burt? After use
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Delia straight and once more you feel certain that before
too long you'll make the golden penny and Rodney Tremont's
hundred thousand dollars all your own. You've carefully schooled Delia
on how to handle Rodney in front of Missus Tremont,
and he's responded just as you felt he would. With
Delia cooling, Rodney can't hide his feelings about her, and
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Missus Tremont is upset. All this according to your plan.
One afternoon, you decide it's time to let Missus Tremont
confide him as she so obviously wants to do. She
asks you to join her in the rose garden.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
I don't really like the way I'm handling miss miss Loane.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
After all, you are Rodney's fending confident, and he's so
proud of you, especially your chess game.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
M is here to beat you.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I let him win every fourth game just to keep
an understain.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
Oh my, it's so good to laugh.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
It's just a tonic to have you round, miss lad
Just a tonic.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
M What can I say?
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Well, you could say that I'm just boom mister Loane.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
If that's what I am.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Fool in love with a younger man, wonderful nobody, that is,
he used to be wonderful now I'm not so sure.
Speaker 9 (14:12):
I hate to think of leaving him. But do you
think Rodney is that he's in?
Speaker 7 (14:22):
Is that what's on your mind? Missus Tremont. Why, bless
your heart. Your husband's as straight as an arrow. He
wouldn't consider any other woman, do you.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
She's just a kid in his a child.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Believe me, Missus Tremont, I know rod and I have
discussed women by the hour.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
No, ma'am you having a thing to worry about.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Oh, mister Loring, You've made me very happy here. He
is lovely and such a comfort. I do hope it
can stay that way.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
I can in the world, Missus Treumont. You know, I
think I know exactly what the situation needs.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
Really, I'm willing to do anything. You know.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Well, I could talk rud and leaving you for just
a few weeks cruise, cruise would do wonders for that
restless feeling of his, That's all it is.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Not.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
You know what they say about absence, Missus Tremont. But
when he gets back, you'll be eating right out of
your hand. That's a promise, you.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Know, mister Lewan.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
I believe you're right.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
This devotion to diesels is beyond me. What's that thing
you're pussing with now? All that it's called the gravity tank? Oh,
fuel goes from here right into the fuel injection system
for th time. Well, it's all Greek to me, you know, Bert,
there must have been women who would be very jealous
of the loving.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
Care you give that engine.
Speaker 11 (15:54):
I know about more about diesels than I do about women.
But me it's just the reverse, thank you, Evan.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Funny now that I think about it, they have more
in common.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Than you'd think.
Speaker 11 (16:04):
Both of them look simple, act complicated, stand up under
heavy pressure, feel.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
The pieces of a little thing.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Well what true of women? Anyway?
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Although I can't imagine any little thing that would follow
up that hans thro of an engine, A little thing like.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Like sugar would do it? Really, sugar in the gravity tank.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
So that manual there will tell you that to create
a mess of diesel electure, it couldn't fix four hours days.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Maybe believe me, I'll take your word for it. It's
enough for me to know that too much sugar and
women don't make. Now, can't we give the engine the rest?
Speaker 9 (16:39):
Just?
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Racing it here? Anchored my own harbor too much like
treading water? When I really want to be in the swift.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
Oh, that's in good shape if we ever do decide
to go anywhere.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
What was that you were saying last night about some
island in the Caribbean.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
Hm?
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Oh, like I said, the days run from Kingston. That's
in Jamaica. Perfect for you, Indedia, tropical fruits, bubbling springs
of clear, cool water and fishing. Man, you've never seen
anything like it. Small sheltered harbor, perfect angle, about ten
square mile?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Is it?
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Inhabitants sure?
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Monkeys, smart monkeys, though they live like kings.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
The days run from Kingston, it shouldn't take too long
to get there.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Then not too long.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
But then with me, it's just a dream because I
haven't got the money. The yacht Noddia, you've got them
all right.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Rodney falls for a Dozendee bird, just as Missus Tremont did,
but for different reasons. You convinced him that he has all.
It takes the money. The yacht Delia. Delia carries out
her part perfectly. She's quit and Missus Tremont believes she's
gone to visit her mother. But you and Rodney know
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she'll be waiting to board the Golden Penny at your
first stop down the coast. It wasn't easy, but you
finally managed to convince Rodney that this trip might be
just the beginning of a cruise that could take him
anywhere that he'll be so happy with Delia he may
never want a return to Missus Tremont. In that case,
he'll want to take his entire fortune of one hundred
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thousand dollars with him. And at last, when the money
is in the wall safe of the master cabin you
put to sea, you refuel at the port of San
Juan and stock the galley to your liking, because from
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here on it's your cruise, isn't it. Bert Delia keeps
Rodney sufficiently occupied going ashore, seeing the sight. He pays
no attention at all to anything you do. You leave
San Juan long before dawn, but it's late morning before
Rodney appears, and he seems quite excited.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Bert A, Thompson and Miller with you. Oh, a mechanic
in the deckhand? Where are they? I've looked all over
for them.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
I dis missed them in San Juan, told them I
wouldn't need them anymore. Why I don't want them in
my way? I don't want anyone in my way. Rod,
not you, not anyone?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
What? Oh, that's it. You dismissed the crew. Now you're
going to get rid of me. I suppose then you'll
have the yacht money. How stupid? Can I get?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Easy? Does it? Ride?
Speaker 10 (19:44):
What's wrong?
Speaker 11 (19:45):
I've been listening to the deckhand is not a sign
of the crew anywhere.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Rod just mentioned that too. I told him, easy does it?
Speaker 6 (19:51):
What I'm going to do, We'll be easy, Believe me.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
They gunnaway? Rod, Think a minute. Suppose you kill me.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
You don't know what thing about engines or about navigation.
The ocean current we're in right now will eventually deposit
you in the equatorial calms.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Death would be slow there.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
But the galley's loaded. We'd be picked up in time.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
With a temperature at one hundred and twenty day a night,
you'd be at each.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Other's throats in three days.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
You get you've planned this all along? Oh? Please both?
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Oh, and don't forget the sudden squalls in that area.
Takes an expert to ride them out, even under power
shots in those waters. To think of the Delia ride,
poor girl.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Ride, Please, I'm frightened, all right?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
How much do you want? Bert take the yacht.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
No, the yacht and fifty thousand dollars. Only take Delian
me back to San Juan.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Get the gun out of your hand ride, replace it
with a straight Scotch. You'll need it.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Why didn't you take the yacht and the money last night?
You had the chance.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Deli and I were ashore in San Juan. You know
the combination to the safe. I even trusted you that much.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
You. Oh, it's Delia you want.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
That's up to Delia. She can come along with me
if she wants to.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
You see, you underestimate me ride. Any chess player knows
that's bad. The insurance company has blueprints of this yacht.
It's custom made, very distinctive. I'd be picked up at
the first court. Then what do you intend to do?
You might have known I'd give you a sporting chance?
How is your chess game today?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Rod?
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Is that your idea of a sporting chance?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
That's right?
Speaker 6 (21:31):
One game?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
When I take all the yacht, the contents of the
safe and Delia, well, I like that me part of.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
A chess game.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
The queen, my dear. But this is no time for chivalry.
You could lose, you know, Birs.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I do you give me fair back to the States.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
But if I win, you give me a bill of
sale of the golden penny and a signed statement that
I won the money in a game of skill.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
A deal all the deal I can expect. I guess
all right, Bert.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
You're on good Take the wheeld it in.
Speaker 10 (22:04):
I wouldn't know what to do with didn't you know?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Okay, just cut the engine and heaved too.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
This is it, isn't it, Burton? Everything just the way
you've planned it, You're confident. Is the two of you
set up the chess game right there in the pilot house.
Delia now opening your ally, watch as silently as the
game progresses. After more than an hour, you have Rod
exactly where you want it.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
It doesn't look too good for me.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Does it. But I beat you once before when you
had me like this.
Speaker 11 (22:44):
Remember mm hmmm, it took eight hours in a long
walk around the estate between plays.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
To do it.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
How about giving me fifteen minutes and a walk around
the deck this time?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Sure, go ahead, fifteen minutes It is if you.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Aren't back and moved in that time, though, and I'll
concede the game is yours fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Then I'll be right here waiting for you.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
I'ms up according to my watch.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Well I'm licked Bert, and I know it. Best man
one and all that sort of thing. He is the
best man.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Isn't he, Delia?
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I think so right, both of you. Well, I hand
you that pen and paper from the desk, and I'll
make this piracy on the high seas legal.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
This is to certify that I roden Cremont for value
received to sell to birk from flowing my yart, the
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golden penny and.
Speaker 12 (24:13):
All decent w you to offer me the shore boat
and five gallons of gas.
Speaker 11 (24:25):
Don't forget the only way to get rid of you?
All right, then you go, I'll help lower you.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Good, you say?
Speaker 10 (24:35):
If I head you south from here, I'll hit the
pan what can't miss it by more than six inches? Bouvoyage?
Speaker 11 (24:46):
Thanks well, goodbye, No heart, you kidding, of course not.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
In a recent newspaper article you may have read about
a test conducted by one the heaviest makes of cars
on the market to prove that you get both increased
mileage and outstanding performance when a motor runs efficiently. Two
stock cars, each weighing more than four thousand pounds and
carrying four passengers averaged over twenty miles per gallon of
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gasoline with the most brilliant performing motor this automobile has
ever had. Friends, isn't this just more proof of what
I've been saying all along about to Day's Signal gasoline.
Because it's engineered to help your motor run more efficiently,
you not only reap the good mileage which has made
Signal famous from Canada to Mexico as the go Farther gasoline.
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In addition, you enjoy the quick starting, the proud pick up,
and the smooth, quiet power that's possible only with a
gasoline that helps your motor deliver its most efficient performance,
which explains why more and more drivers who demand more
from their automobile as well as their motoring dollars, are
switching to Signal the famous Go Farther gasoline.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Well, Bert, it's over. You and Delia stand arm in
arm on the deck of the Golden Penny, peering out
under the horizon until the shore boat bearing Rodney Tremont
the San Juan becomes a speck in the South Atlantic
and then disappears entirely. Everything's gone just as you planned,
hasn't it, Bert, the Golden Penny. The contents of the
cabin safe and Delia. They're all yours now, just as
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you knew they would be. Now you are certain the
ports of the world are yours too, to enter and
leave whenever you like.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
A Oh goodness, where.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
Did that wind come from?
Speaker 9 (26:51):
No?
Speaker 10 (26:51):
No, oh, that sky to the north and east.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Oh it's so Blackbert the.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Storm all right, Alulu, No, we can write it out. No,
he was trying to run from it. Have to head
into it at full power. Rome, I'll get it started, Obert.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Will it be all right?
Speaker 11 (27:07):
Well, baby, only hurry along now. We don't get to
sixty five foot underway before the storm hits full We're
in rail trouble.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
On.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
I'm frightened, Bertie, after everything.
Speaker 11 (27:15):
We did to Roden, you never make it to San
Lan at the rate this thing's blowing up.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Better off with me, baby, and mister Beagle's pettan't mention.
Speaker 11 (27:24):
Ah, here we go now, see baby, you got anything
to worry about?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (27:31):
Thanks, we'll make it now hit its full power. What
what is it?
Speaker 8 (27:36):
What's wrong?
Speaker 10 (27:37):
I don't know for a minute. You need to be
getting any fuel.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
It's funny.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
I'll take a look at the fuel line.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
I'll be.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Thirty.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
It's sugar.
Speaker 10 (27:55):
What sugar? Lots of it in the gravity tank, Hilbert. Look,
they're on the floor of that book.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
There's a note on it.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
But thanks for giving me fifteen minutes and that tip
about sugar.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
This was the only move I could think of, and
your manual on diesel engines was most helpful. I'm taking
the money from the safe too. From what you said
about these waters, I don't think you will have much
use for money. Goodbye, and no hard feelings, huh.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil
program The Whistler each Sunday night at the same time.
Signal Oil Company has asked me to remind you now
that school days are here again, it's even more important
to drive at sensible speeds, be courteous, and obey traffic regulations.
It may save a life, possibly a child.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Why.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Featured in Tonight's story were Bill Foreman, Lamont Johnson, and
Barry Kroger. The Whistler was produced by George Allen, directed
by Robert Hafter, with story by Jack Conrad, music by
Wilbur Hatch, and was transmitted to our troops overseas by
the Armed Forces radio service. The Whistler is entirely fictional,
and all characters portrayed on the Whistler are also fictional.
Any similarity of names or resemblance to persons living or
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dead is purely coincidental. Remember at the same time next Sunday,
another strange tale by the Whistler Marvin Miller, speaking for
the Signal Oil Company is the CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting
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