December 31, 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):
Wait a minute, have you heard the whistler lately?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I am the whistler, and I know many things.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Or I walk by night.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of
men and women who have stepped into the shadow. Yes,
I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
And now the whistler's strange story last request.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
The group around doctor Rourke's bed moved away as he
beckoned with his last remaining.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Strength, indicating that he wanted to be.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Alone with his son.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It was all right, the nurse decided, because his boy,
James Rourke, was a doctor himself. He directed the others out,
moved silently after them, and closed the door. James sat
on the edge of the bed listened at what his
father had to say.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
It was an amazing story.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Something a dying man had to clear up. It wasn't
really his own story, but that of one Tony Delgano,
former public Enemy number one. It was late the steamer
(01:38):
dock almost deserted when the big car pulled up near
the gangplank, and Tony Delgano stepped out and turned to
the driver.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
A slidi Ya, Tony's not Tony, You're fool.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Well he picked up before this tub even sails.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Okay, okay, not Tony, what you got on your past?
Poor only Delgano is no more now, David delmo Us,
tell mass kind of closing, it's gotta be closer. I
don't slip now, you see that. You don't you do
any singing, Selidi even one little bit? Why you always
think I'm gonna be the opera star.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
I don't sing to nobody.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
You see that, you don't? You better go aboard her
and a nice trip, mister Delmas. Yeah, sure, I got everything. Everything,
I'll make it if you behave, I always have well, sollon, chief,
don't take any lead.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Slut so long and you'll be careful.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
You watch from the rail as the lights from the
Golden Gate pade into the distance, and you feel safe, secure.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Don't you tell me? It's like the beginning of a
new life.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
One that's three of the police, A new life on
another name, David delmar You enjoy it even more only
a few hours later, at a cocktail party on board,
when you manage a meeting with a very exciting girl,
Sharon Phillips, You feel a sense of amusement inside as
you introduce yourself and the ship clown.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Er Delmas David Delmas.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
It's a pleasure, mister Delmar.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
You know they say they say shipboard friendships sometimes lead
to all kinds of things. So so may I get
you another cocktails if you like Manhattan?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Please?
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Oh just a man. I want you to meet someone,
an old friend.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Uh doctor oh, doctor rhar doctor Ruck over here?
Speaker 8 (03:50):
Doctor?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Oh, hello, Sharon, So you decided to take the trip.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
After a doctor Rock, mister Delmar?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Uh, happy more year too.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
I'll get the drink for you, Sharon.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Oh, hurry back, won't you?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Sure, it's a shock, isn't it, Tony saying doctor Roy.
And you know that it surprised him too.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It's been a long time, hadn't it. And you know
that you must talk to him alone. And soon he's
gone when you return with Sharon Phillip's drink. But later
out on the deck you see him standing by the
aff rail quietly smoking his pipe.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You saunter over.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Ah, will you meet again doctor Rock?
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Oh? Yeah, I wondered when you'd be cornering me alone,
mister del Gano Delmas David Delmas. I don't suppose I
have to ask you why you're traveling under assumed me.
The police is again the police again. But Doc, yeah,
(05:07):
you're gonna keep my secret. Not say anything, am I
haven't said anything yet?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I mean no, no, I haven't.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Yeah, you're wise, Doc, you're very wise. I could mess
up your life too, you know, didn't by the way,
in what the min uh, Doc wears your memory by
time you fixed up my shoulder after that hunting accident.
Speaker 9 (05:35):
And I rember you were sure.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
And you remember that it wasn't a hunting accident at all.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I learned that later, toldy make that day.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Well, you don't tell me what to make it. I'll
say what I please went and to whom you can't
threaten me. They have got in law, no, Doc, of
course not. Your son is a doctor too in the
yes few years. Yeah, wonder how his associates it feel
if they heard that his old man, doctor Roc Senior
(06:07):
at once helped the criminal.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Never said anything about it.
Speaker 9 (06:11):
My son, you wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
I wouldn't who I would.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
You just forget about Tony doll Gotta or your son,
young doctor Rock would have his life messed up because
of something his father did. I see you're a running away.
I spose, Yeah, you suppose, good doc.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
And what are you doing here? What are your own prescriptions?
Huh little sea voyage.
Speaker 9 (06:42):
I'm doing favor for a friend.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Uh the n bought. Yes, don't go getting any ideas
you can tell him about me. I don't want anyone
to know doct cause I'm free and clear, and.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Of course doesn't make me difference. I understand you just
skip mentioning anything to your friend. You understand that too.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It would skip Ynesley matter if I did.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Uh h.
Speaker 9 (07:04):
My friend is making.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
A last foreheage. Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
His body is in the casket in the hold.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
I'm escorting him to to his final resting place, his
last request.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Well, okay, doctor, I guess you won't do any talking,
so uh, I'll see you around, not if I can
avoid it. Oh, and I'll hurt your feelings no manner.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
H Uh, you'll forget about that. See.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I'll call on you any time for anything, and you'll
do whatever.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Tony Delgano says.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Oh, sorry, I forgot my new name del Mass David
del Mass.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
H he speaks a little differently from del Gano.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Del Mass is going to be a real gent, but
he's the same guy, doctor, the same guy. Before continuing
with Whistler's Strange Tale, here's a word from the people
(08:21):
who are bringing it to you.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
All of us are proud of our hometowns, and rightly so.
In this brief moment before we continue with our program,
we'd like to offer a salute to one of our
hometowns in America. Cleveland, Ohio, the seventh largest city in
the United States. Cleveland was founded in seventeen ninety six
by General Moses Cleveland, chief surveyor for a land company.
(08:43):
His employers bought three million acres in what is now
northern Ohio, paying forty cents an acre. Just by way
of comparison, an acre in downtown Cleveland today would bring some.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Two million dollars.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
It is an important Great Lake shipping point in the
site of iron and steel manufacturing. Other Cleveland products include paints, varnishes,
electrical appliances, chemicals, and automobile and airplane parks. It is
well known for its cultural developments. Also, the city owns
and operates its own dramatic theater, and the Cleveland Symphony
Orchestra is widely acclaimed in the Cleveland Cultural gardens. A
(09:21):
mile long strip of Park area. More than thirty nationality
groups represented in Cleveland's population are creating gardens as memorials
to peace. One hundred and twenty years is a short
time in the world's history, but during that time, Cleveland
has taken its honored place in the building of America.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Now back to the whistler.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's clear sailing again, isn't it, Tony as David Delmas,
You're safe on the ship.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Not a worry.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Doctor Rourke will say nothing because he's afraid that his son,
a young doctor with a bright future, will be hurted
by the knowledge that his father once helped the criminal.
He took a bullet out of your shoulder, didn't he Tony?
After a bank job? He said nothing then, and it's
the same now, after all these years.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
He'd be safe. You think very little about it the
next few days. You're too busy with that girl, Sharon Phillip.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
He's exciting, isn't he?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Tony?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
And seemingly very interested in you?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
As it is you want again, David, I'm afraid I'm
no chevbrod.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
David. I like you to call me that. Sharon de
a no shuffleboard player.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Let's let's get away from yeah, huh.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Yeah, that's better be here. M.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
What do you do the work?
Speaker 9 (11:11):
I mean, why do you ask? M?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
No reason except that well we have been seeing a
good deal of one another.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
I don't ask doctor work if you knew anything?
Speaker 6 (11:21):
What don't you say?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Mm?
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Nothing at all? That why I ask you?
Speaker 10 (11:27):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Oh, I'll share it. I'm just a guy moving around.
Speaker 11 (11:37):
Uh uh seeking speaking Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Something someone someone like you may but this do it's
kind of I don't think.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Ah that fool? Now what is it? Steward?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Mr dummoss mark?
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Or see what longs Uh? Sure we'll dance huh twice
around the main four? What do you want? Writer? Than
sir alone?
Speaker 9 (12:08):
But what is this?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Why?
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Don't mind?
Speaker 8 (12:10):
David?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (12:11):
I'll join you later mm in the cellar or not.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Much later, about ten minutes? Sure alright now boy easy, Tony?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Or I might not like that, Tony? What'd you?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
I've seen your picture? So this dell dono this radiogram.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
For mister David Delmos from San Francisco.
Speaker 12 (12:31):
Here Celia's singing received world here, anticipate big reception for
you in Australia. Uh, double crossing, little squoil it gits
off the police.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Any but when I get my behave here, Gregg Doggonner,
you could still look him from here? You got a
Sunday punch, I have? Yes, your friend doctor Rourke or
a barbar Rourke. He's just goating stiff, Ain't he sold
of a duck? What's the prevented from disposing of his
quiet friend? You take his place in that casket, go
ashore as nice as you please, and nobody's the wiser.
Speaker 10 (13:12):
Hm uh.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
You're a bright boy, boy. What's your end of it?
Just give me a bit of oup, that's all. If
you're a bit of help, Yes, sir, maybe you could
get a little package, sure from me?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
What's in the package?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
A million dollars in diamonds? Mister donk Now, you just
take it with you. I'll pick it up after you're
safely ashore.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
What do you say.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
I'll think it over. I get in touch with you,
all right, sir. But remember it's your only chance.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It's a way out, isn't atomic. But you're not.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Certain you wanna take m M. You tell yourself there
must be another way.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
You can escape the police, who will be waiting for.
Speaker 9 (14:05):
You when you're boat up.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
That's sitting if it's to follow you search for the.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Answer, find yourself thinking more and more of the Steward's plans,
And then one evening, as you stroll along the half
deserted deck, good.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
You hear, mister Delos, beautiful lord, isn't it? Yes?
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Yes, it is Steward? Or you haven't had a light?
Want o you want?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Sir?
Speaker 10 (14:32):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
It's been a pleasant voyage, wouldn't you say, sir?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
To bead?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
It'll be on a soon the doctor die after tomorrow,
you know, yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
I I know.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
By the way, mister Delos, Uh, miss Phillips has been
inquiring about you.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Were asked if I've seen she's in Alon.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Oh oh yeah, a nice young lady that miss Phillips seems, Sir,
caite taken by you, if I may say so, says oh.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, you know yes, Uh, very attractive woman.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Lots of money too. Are you too bad if anything
happened to spoil your beautiful friendship? Not the police, ah,
mister Douglas, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9 (15:19):
It would be too bad.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Uh you've been thinking any more about my proposition?
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Sure, I've been thinking about it. It's uh, it's a deal, Yeah,
it's a deal. Bring the package to my stake room
in ten minutes. Here's the package, sir. Oh that that
(15:55):
nice improperly? Eh?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Oh a very big one is not very swe A
million dollars.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Uh hey, what's your cutterness? Twenty thousand on delivery?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Uh alright, red it.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
I'll take care of things from no one.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Oh he's doctor Rourke.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
You know not yet, but I can handle him, you understand. Suh.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
That pots between you and the door. Sure, sure, well,
Uh gotta get top side.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Uh they just a minute, Let make a minute.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
I guess.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
I am I supposed to get this package too after I'm
a shore.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Don't worry, Tony, I'll be close by all the tard h.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
After he's left your.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Cabin, your gaze wanders back to the small package lying
on the desk.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
You stare at it for a moment, and quickly you
walk over to us, rip it open.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You're examining the contents of the package, when quickly you
closed the box slip it into the desk drawer. Uh.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Al, i'd come in.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
Oh hy you.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Beginning to wonder where you disappeared to all, I was
just on my way up to the lawn.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
The fen waves have asked a few people of their
state room when I go along?
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Have I been invited?
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Have you?
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Missus Benway won't take no for an answer.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Oh well, what's the occasion?
Speaker 7 (17:28):
Nothing special, it's some drinks and cards. I suppose missus
Benway has suddenly discovered the game of black jack. He's
crazy about it.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Oh oh oh, she starts losing.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
H you wanna David been waves are waiting?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Yes, am I look, I I I gotta go up
on deck permanent harf. So what if you run along on?
Join you later? Huh oh right, but yeah, you you
go on me. It's important. I take care of this
matter right away, very important. Uh uh s doing?
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Huh oh oh, mister Tilmark, So I I didn't see.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
It throng the dark?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Yeah yeah, it's nice and dark.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Uh oh for a bit of a stroke, Yeah, I
am joined me. Well h oh my, I I it's business.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
You'd like to make ten grand easily? It wouldn't you
sto it?
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Ten grands are ten grand? When I left the States.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
There was a reward out on me ten grand. It's
that's so sick. Yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
So because you know about that, didn't you? Oh I no, no,
I I didn't deserve that.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
You would kind of like to collect.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
That didn't h I no know what?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
You're talking to him out and I hied me out where.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
The cops couldn't find me, and then you would lead
them to me.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
How am I doing?
Speaker 8 (19:05):
So?
Speaker 9 (19:06):
That's crazy?
Speaker 5 (19:07):
So will I turn you in for ten grand? When
you're holding the package for me?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
That's well twenty? I opened it buster.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
You you open?
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (19:20):
All I found was a handful of glass about.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Don't wait a minute?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
You got me all rule?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I don't think.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
So what are you going to do?
Speaker 5 (19:28):
So your smart little punk doesn't Let's see if you
have a learned how to.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Swim, the stewid won't bother you anymore, Sharon and the.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Rest of the passengers will think he's.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Fallen over the w When you retire for the night,
you're confident you're in the clear, but your plan can't fail.
Then the following morning, there's a knock on your stateroom door,
and then.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Thank oh oh yeah, thank you. Oh you can set
it down over there if you want.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Yeah, it's s yeah, yeah, hey yeah, hunt you knew here?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Where's the regular steward I had when he robbed the
odd set?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
He's disappeared?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Why shit been searched.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
He isn't the board?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
He you sure, he said.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
One of the passengers on the deck by start told
he heard his splash.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
You mean the steward might have fallen overboard.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
That's exactly what might have happened.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
If the dum man born.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Ain't, doctor Roard, that'll be all story.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I guess you think you did about that too?
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Bad about who was falling overboard?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
What?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yeah, tough, But then accidents will happen.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
I don't think it was an accident.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Eh, oh, join me, doctor, Thanks, I've already ooh, make
sure look good?
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Be sure you won't no, rather just pace up and down?
Speaker 10 (21:01):
Uh okay, Oh you were saying, doctor, it wasn't an accident.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Wasn't it accident? Or you mean the story? How to
the field to be a murderer?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I often won day.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Had some copy. Doctor.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
He knew too much about you, didn't he? And I
noticed on the first day when.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
He saw talking together, he was rather.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
Inquisitive in a guard that sought the way.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Probably recognized you well. He was a smart little operator, doctor,
but not smart enough.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
And I tell you I kind of hated to do it,
especially after it giving me that bright idea what the
bright idea?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yeah, they keep a.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Toast warm all the way to the cabin. What the idea?
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Hum?
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Oh, the way of getting off the boat.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
See, doctor, police are gonna be waiting for me when
the boat Sydney.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
H What now? Yeah, Doc, when you sit down, you're
making me nervous.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
That's better.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Now. It's gonna be tough, you know, for both of
us if they grabbed me, and a kind of tough
on your son too.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
What you were going to do?
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Oh, there's a way.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
I can slip past him if you will help, and
I'm pretty certain that you will.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Uh, how how can I help?
Speaker 5 (22:31):
But you told me you're accompanying an old friend to
his final resting place.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
There is that's right, and that's.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
How I'm gonna slip off of this boat. They never
think of looking there for.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Me or you?
Speaker 5 (22:42):
You're not suggesting you write again?
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Uh, we're gonna make a sweat.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
No, no, I H no I I I I can't
do it like not asking. I'm telling you you know
something more. You're gonna keep your mouth shut or you
know what happens to your son? Mum, I'll beat it.
When you want to listen, We're gonna be docing tomorrow night.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
I'll let you know him plenty of time.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
You'll watch doctor Rourke as he backs out of your
stateroom a stuned, horrified look on his face. You're not worried,
are you, tom You know he'll go through.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
It for his son's sake.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
You spend the rest of the day with Sharon, enjoying
the debt game, chatting pleasantly with the other patents, and
then early that evening, when you finished dressing for dinner,
you pull yourself a drink. A knock on your stateroom
door interrupts your first ship. One of the ship's officers
steps into the room.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Or is it I should have to ask you to
come with me, sir, Oh, captain.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Wants to see you. Well, what about it? Look if
you come quietly, mister Delgano Olgano, Yes, we.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Just received radiogram from the San Francisco police. Uh here,
I see you don't mind if I finish my drink?
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Would you care for him?
Speaker 6 (24:11):
If you just come with me? Sah, come on, have
a drink.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
An instant after you.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Throw the drink in his face, your fist connects with
his chin and he slumps to the floor.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Quickly.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You close the door, stand for a moment with your
back to it. Your mind's spinning wildly. They discovered you, now,
haven't they told me? And you've got to move fast.
Leaving the unconscious officers frawl down on the floor, you
hurry to doctor Rock.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
State that's what I said. No, it's got to be naw.
Speaker 9 (24:45):
We don't dock until tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
As soon as that officer wakes up, they're gonna be
tearing this board inside out looking for me.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
Here you tell, don't ask me.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
I haven't got it. You'll get going. I'm gonna wait
right here for you.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
The minutes dragged by, and you wait for Doctor Walk
to return. Pace his stateroom floor, stopping occasionally to pour
yourself a drink from the decanter on the night stand.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
An hour goes by, and then finally.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Oh hey, look where your bed. I I had to
be capularized. Everything all said, yes, yes, I I just had.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
A talk with the captain that well you double the arsons.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Away, I I told him.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
I thought I saw you trying to hide in one
of the lifeboats, saw you lose your footing ah ah,
I see the ship is circling the area now, well
that's smart if you doc, that's pretty smart.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Hey that colls for a drink.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
Huh, I could use sir. See you helped yourself.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Oh sure, I had a few.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Make me feel better while I'm resting in that box.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Stumble up to me.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
That's something I've got to tell you.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
You know all I need to know. I come on,
you finish your drinks.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
You know I'm gonna go out of the hold and
you can make me nice and comfortable. I said, come on,
I don't want to talk about it no more.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Very will you seem to be giving the orders.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Before continuing with a whistler strange story. Here's something everybody's for.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
We are for.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
You and God.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
And now for the Wistler's ending to his story for tonight,
in stun silent, young doctor Roy sat on the edge
of his father's bed, listening to the dying man as
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he told his story in a voice that had now
faded to a bare whisper.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
The end was near for old doctor.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Roy, and as his son James leaned forward to catch
the last you remaining words, an expression of pain crossed
his face, said said you let Tony go, gonna get away?
Speaker 9 (27:34):
No losn he didn't get away.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
But you let him take another man's place in the casket,
your friend.
Speaker 11 (27:45):
Yes, he took my friend's place in the casket. The
body eye was accompanying to its final resting place. But
you see there were something Tony Delgardo didn't know.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
What's that dad.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
My friend that chosen as his final resting place.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
A bell at sea.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Featured in the night story were Bill Foreman as the Whistler,
with Lawrence Dobkin, Her Butterfield, Jean Tatum, Jack Moyl, and
Paul dubob The Whistler, directed by Sterling Tracy with music
by Wilbur Hatch, is produced by Joel Malone and transmitted
overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
This evening story was by Brian Thorne.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
The Whistler was entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on
The Whistler are also fictional. Any similarities of names or
resemblances to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. The Whistler,
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whose strange story you have just heard, will be back
next week with another tale from his never ending fire.
This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television
Service
Wait a minute, have you heard the whistler lately?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I am the whistler, and I know many things.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Or I walk by night.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of
men and women who have stepped into the shadow. Yes,
I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
And now the whistler's strange story last request.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
The group around doctor Rourke's bed moved away as he
beckoned with his last remaining.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Strength, indicating that he wanted to be.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Alone with his son.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It was all right, the nurse decided, because his boy,
James Rourke, was a doctor himself. He directed the others out,
moved silently after them, and closed the door. James sat
on the edge of the bed listened at what his
father had to say.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
It was an amazing story.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Something a dying man had to clear up. It wasn't
really his own story, but that of one Tony Delgano,
former public Enemy number one. It was late the steamer
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dock almost deserted when the big car pulled up near
the gangplank, and Tony Delgano stepped out and turned to
the driver.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
A slidi Ya, Tony's not Tony, You're fool.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Well he picked up before this tub even sails.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Okay, okay, not Tony, what you got on your past?
Poor only Delgano is no more now, David delmo Us,
tell mass kind of closing, it's gotta be closer. I
don't slip now, you see that. You don't you do
any singing, Selidi even one little bit? Why you always
think I'm gonna be the opera star.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
I don't sing to nobody.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
You see that, you don't? You better go aboard her
and a nice trip, mister Delmas. Yeah, sure, I got everything. Everything,
I'll make it if you behave, I always have well, sollon, chief,
don't take any lead.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Slut so long and you'll be careful.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
You watch from the rail as the lights from the
Golden Gate pade into the distance, and you feel safe, secure.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Don't you tell me? It's like the beginning of a
new life.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
One that's three of the police, A new life on
another name, David delmar You enjoy it even more only
a few hours later, at a cocktail party on board,
when you manage a meeting with a very exciting girl,
Sharon Phillips, You feel a sense of amusement inside as
you introduce yourself and the ship clown.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Er Delmas David Delmas.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
It's a pleasure, mister Delmar.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
You know they say they say shipboard friendships sometimes lead
to all kinds of things. So so may I get
you another cocktails if you like Manhattan?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Please?
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Oh just a man. I want you to meet someone,
an old friend.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Uh doctor oh, doctor rhar doctor Ruck over here?
Speaker 8 (03:50):
Doctor?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Oh, hello, Sharon, So you decided to take the trip.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
After a doctor Rock, mister Delmar?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Uh, happy more year too.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
I'll get the drink for you, Sharon.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Oh, hurry back, won't you?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Sure, it's a shock, isn't it, Tony saying doctor Roy.
And you know that it surprised him too.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It's been a long time, hadn't it. And you know
that you must talk to him alone. And soon he's
gone when you return with Sharon Phillip's drink. But later
out on the deck you see him standing by the
aff rail quietly smoking his pipe.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You saunter over.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Ah, will you meet again doctor Rock?
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Oh? Yeah, I wondered when you'd be cornering me alone,
mister del Gano Delmas David Delmas. I don't suppose I
have to ask you why you're traveling under assumed me.
The police is again the police again. But Doc, yeah,
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you're gonna keep my secret. Not say anything, am I
haven't said anything yet?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I mean no, no, I haven't.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Yeah, you're wise, Doc, you're very wise. I could mess
up your life too, you know, didn't by the way,
in what the min uh, Doc wears your memory by
time you fixed up my shoulder after that hunting accident.
Speaker 9 (05:35):
And I rember you were sure.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
And you remember that it wasn't a hunting accident at all.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I learned that later, toldy make that day.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Well, you don't tell me what to make it. I'll
say what I please went and to whom you can't
threaten me. They have got in law, no, Doc, of
course not. Your son is a doctor too in the
yes few years. Yeah, wonder how his associates it feel
if they heard that his old man, doctor Roc Senior
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at once helped the criminal.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Never said anything about it.
Speaker 9 (06:11):
My son, you wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
I wouldn't who I would.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
You just forget about Tony doll Gotta or your son,
young doctor Rock would have his life messed up because
of something his father did. I see you're a running away.
I spose, Yeah, you suppose, good doc.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
And what are you doing here? What are your own prescriptions?
Huh little sea voyage.
Speaker 9 (06:42):
I'm doing favor for a friend.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Uh the n bought. Yes, don't go getting any ideas
you can tell him about me. I don't want anyone
to know doct cause I'm free and clear, and.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Of course doesn't make me difference. I understand you just
skip mentioning anything to your friend. You understand that too.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It would skip Ynesley matter if I did.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Uh h.
Speaker 9 (07:04):
My friend is making.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
A last foreheage. Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
His body is in the casket in the hold.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
I'm escorting him to to his final resting place, his
last request.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Well, okay, doctor, I guess you won't do any talking,
so uh, I'll see you around, not if I can
avoid it. Oh, and I'll hurt your feelings no manner.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
H Uh, you'll forget about that. See.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I'll call on you any time for anything, and you'll
do whatever.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Tony Delgano says.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Oh, sorry, I forgot my new name del Mass David
del Mass.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
H he speaks a little differently from del Gano.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Del Mass is going to be a real gent, but
he's the same guy, doctor, the same guy. Before continuing
with Whistler's Strange Tale, here's a word from the people
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who are bringing it to you.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
All of us are proud of our hometowns, and rightly so.
In this brief moment before we continue with our program,
we'd like to offer a salute to one of our
hometowns in America. Cleveland, Ohio, the seventh largest city in
the United States. Cleveland was founded in seventeen ninety six
by General Moses Cleveland, chief surveyor for a land company.
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His employers bought three million acres in what is now
northern Ohio, paying forty cents an acre. Just by way
of comparison, an acre in downtown Cleveland today would bring some.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Two million dollars.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
It is an important Great Lake shipping point in the
site of iron and steel manufacturing. Other Cleveland products include paints, varnishes,
electrical appliances, chemicals, and automobile and airplane parks. It is
well known for its cultural developments. Also, the city owns
and operates its own dramatic theater, and the Cleveland Symphony
Orchestra is widely acclaimed in the Cleveland Cultural gardens. A
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mile long strip of Park area. More than thirty nationality
groups represented in Cleveland's population are creating gardens as memorials
to peace. One hundred and twenty years is a short
time in the world's history, but during that time, Cleveland
has taken its honored place in the building of America.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Now back to the whistler.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's clear sailing again, isn't it, Tony as David Delmas,
You're safe on the ship.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Not a worry.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Doctor Rourke will say nothing because he's afraid that his son,
a young doctor with a bright future, will be hurted
by the knowledge that his father once helped the criminal.
He took a bullet out of your shoulder, didn't he Tony?
After a bank job? He said nothing then, and it's
the same now, after all these years.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
He'd be safe. You think very little about it the
next few days. You're too busy with that girl, Sharon Phillip.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
He's exciting, isn't he?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Tony?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
And seemingly very interested in you?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
As it is you want again, David, I'm afraid I'm
no chevbrod.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
David. I like you to call me that. Sharon de
a no shuffleboard player.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Let's let's get away from yeah, huh.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Yeah, that's better be here. M.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
What do you do the work?
Speaker 9 (11:11):
I mean, why do you ask? M?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
No reason except that well we have been seeing a
good deal of one another.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
I don't ask doctor work if you knew anything?
Speaker 6 (11:21):
What don't you say?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Mm?
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Nothing at all? That why I ask you?
Speaker 10 (11:27):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Oh, I'll share it. I'm just a guy moving around.
Speaker 11 (11:37):
Uh uh seeking speaking Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Something someone someone like you may but this do it's
kind of I don't think.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Ah that fool? Now what is it? Steward?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Mr dummoss mark?
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Or see what longs Uh? Sure we'll dance huh twice
around the main four? What do you want? Writer? Than
sir alone?
Speaker 9 (12:08):
But what is this?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Why?
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Don't mind?
Speaker 8 (12:10):
David?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (12:11):
I'll join you later mm in the cellar or not.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Much later, about ten minutes? Sure alright now boy easy, Tony?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Or I might not like that, Tony? What'd you?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
I've seen your picture? So this dell dono this radiogram.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
For mister David Delmos from San Francisco.
Speaker 12 (12:31):
Here Celia's singing received world here, anticipate big reception for
you in Australia. Uh, double crossing, little squoil it gits
off the police.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Any but when I get my behave here, Gregg Doggonner,
you could still look him from here? You got a
Sunday punch, I have? Yes, your friend doctor Rourke or
a barbar Rourke. He's just goating stiff, Ain't he sold
of a duck? What's the prevented from disposing of his
quiet friend? You take his place in that casket, go
ashore as nice as you please, and nobody's the wiser.
Speaker 10 (13:12):
Hm uh.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
You're a bright boy, boy. What's your end of it?
Just give me a bit of oup, that's all. If
you're a bit of help, Yes, sir, maybe you could
get a little package, sure from me?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
What's in the package?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
A million dollars in diamonds? Mister donk Now, you just
take it with you. I'll pick it up after you're
safely ashore.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
What do you say.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
I'll think it over. I get in touch with you,
all right, sir. But remember it's your only chance.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It's a way out, isn't atomic. But you're not.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Certain you wanna take m M. You tell yourself there
must be another way.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
You can escape the police, who will be waiting for.
Speaker 9 (14:05):
You when you're boat up.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
That's sitting if it's to follow you search for the.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Answer, find yourself thinking more and more of the Steward's plans,
And then one evening, as you stroll along the half
deserted deck, good.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
You hear, mister Delos, beautiful lord, isn't it? Yes?
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Yes, it is Steward? Or you haven't had a light?
Want o you want?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Sir?
Speaker 10 (14:32):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
It's been a pleasant voyage, wouldn't you say, sir?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
To bead?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
It'll be on a soon the doctor die after tomorrow,
you know, yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
I I know.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
By the way, mister Delos, Uh, miss Phillips has been
inquiring about you.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Were asked if I've seen she's in Alon.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Oh oh yeah, a nice young lady that miss Phillips seems, Sir,
caite taken by you, if I may say so, says oh.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, you know yes, Uh, very attractive woman.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Lots of money too. Are you too bad if anything
happened to spoil your beautiful friendship? Not the police, ah,
mister Douglas, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9 (15:19):
It would be too bad.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Uh you've been thinking any more about my proposition?
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Sure, I've been thinking about it. It's uh, it's a deal, Yeah,
it's a deal. Bring the package to my stake room
in ten minutes. Here's the package, sir. Oh that that
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nice improperly? Eh?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Oh a very big one is not very swe A
million dollars.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Uh hey, what's your cutterness? Twenty thousand on delivery?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Uh alright, red it.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
I'll take care of things from no one.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Oh he's doctor Rourke.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
You know not yet, but I can handle him, you understand. Suh.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
That pots between you and the door. Sure, sure, well,
Uh gotta get top side.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Uh they just a minute, Let make a minute.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
I guess.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
I am I supposed to get this package too after I'm
a shore.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Don't worry, Tony, I'll be close by all the tard h.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
After he's left your.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Cabin, your gaze wanders back to the small package lying
on the desk.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
You stare at it for a moment, and quickly you
walk over to us, rip it open.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You're examining the contents of the package, when quickly you
closed the box slip it into the desk drawer. Uh.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Al, i'd come in.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
Oh hy you.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Beginning to wonder where you disappeared to all, I was
just on my way up to the lawn.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
The fen waves have asked a few people of their
state room when I go along?
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Have I been invited?
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Have you?
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Missus Benway won't take no for an answer.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Oh well, what's the occasion?
Speaker 7 (17:28):
Nothing special, it's some drinks and cards. I suppose missus
Benway has suddenly discovered the game of black jack. He's
crazy about it.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Oh oh oh, she starts losing.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
H you wanna David been waves are waiting?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Yes, am I look, I I I gotta go up
on deck permanent harf. So what if you run along on?
Join you later? Huh oh right, but yeah, you you
go on me. It's important. I take care of this
matter right away, very important. Uh uh s doing?
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Huh oh oh, mister Tilmark, So I I didn't see.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
It throng the dark?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Yeah yeah, it's nice and dark.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Uh oh for a bit of a stroke, Yeah, I
am joined me. Well h oh my, I I it's business.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
You'd like to make ten grand easily? It wouldn't you
sto it?
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Ten grands are ten grand? When I left the States.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
There was a reward out on me ten grand. It's
that's so sick. Yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
So because you know about that, didn't you? Oh I no, no,
I I didn't deserve that.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
You would kind of like to collect.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
That didn't h I no know what?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
You're talking to him out and I hied me out where.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
The cops couldn't find me, and then you would lead
them to me.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
How am I doing?
Speaker 8 (19:05):
So?
Speaker 9 (19:06):
That's crazy?
Speaker 5 (19:07):
So will I turn you in for ten grand? When
you're holding the package for me?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
That's well twenty? I opened it buster.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
You you open?
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (19:20):
All I found was a handful of glass about.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Don't wait a minute?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
You got me all rule?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I don't think.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
So what are you going to do?
Speaker 5 (19:28):
So your smart little punk doesn't Let's see if you
have a learned how to.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Swim, the stewid won't bother you anymore, Sharon and the.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Rest of the passengers will think he's.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Fallen over the w When you retire for the night,
you're confident you're in the clear, but your plan can't fail.
Then the following morning, there's a knock on your stateroom door,
and then.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Thank oh oh yeah, thank you. Oh you can set
it down over there if you want.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Yeah, it's s yeah, yeah, hey yeah, hunt you knew here?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Where's the regular steward I had when he robbed the
odd set?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
He's disappeared?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Why shit been searched.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
He isn't the board?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
He you sure, he said.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
One of the passengers on the deck by start told
he heard his splash.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
You mean the steward might have fallen overboard.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
That's exactly what might have happened.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
If the dum man born.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Ain't, doctor Roard, that'll be all story.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I guess you think you did about that too?
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Bad about who was falling overboard?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
What?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yeah, tough, But then accidents will happen.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
I don't think it was an accident.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Eh, oh, join me, doctor, Thanks, I've already ooh, make
sure look good?
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Be sure you won't no, rather just pace up and down?
Speaker 10 (21:01):
Uh okay, Oh you were saying, doctor, it wasn't an accident.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Wasn't it accident? Or you mean the story? How to
the field to be a murderer?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I often won day.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Had some copy. Doctor.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
He knew too much about you, didn't he? And I
noticed on the first day when.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
He saw talking together, he was rather.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
Inquisitive in a guard that sought the way.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Probably recognized you well. He was a smart little operator, doctor,
but not smart enough.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
And I tell you I kind of hated to do it,
especially after it giving me that bright idea what the
bright idea?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yeah, they keep a.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Toast warm all the way to the cabin. What the idea?
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Hum?
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Oh, the way of getting off the boat.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
See, doctor, police are gonna be waiting for me when
the boat Sydney.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
H What now? Yeah, Doc, when you sit down, you're
making me nervous.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
That's better.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Now. It's gonna be tough, you know, for both of
us if they grabbed me, and a kind of tough
on your son too.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
What you were going to do?
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Oh, there's a way.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
I can slip past him if you will help, and
I'm pretty certain that you will.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Uh, how how can I help?
Speaker 5 (22:31):
But you told me you're accompanying an old friend to
his final resting place.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
There is that's right, and that's.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
How I'm gonna slip off of this boat. They never
think of looking there for.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Me or you?
Speaker 5 (22:42):
You're not suggesting you write again?
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Uh, we're gonna make a sweat.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
No, no, I H no I I I I can't
do it like not asking. I'm telling you you know
something more. You're gonna keep your mouth shut or you
know what happens to your son? Mum, I'll beat it.
When you want to listen, We're gonna be docing tomorrow night.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
I'll let you know him plenty of time.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
You'll watch doctor Rourke as he backs out of your
stateroom a stuned, horrified look on his face. You're not worried,
are you, tom You know he'll go through.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
It for his son's sake.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
You spend the rest of the day with Sharon, enjoying
the debt game, chatting pleasantly with the other patents, and
then early that evening, when you finished dressing for dinner,
you pull yourself a drink. A knock on your stateroom
door interrupts your first ship. One of the ship's officers
steps into the room.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Or is it I should have to ask you to
come with me, sir, Oh, captain.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Wants to see you. Well, what about it? Look if
you come quietly, mister Delgano Olgano, Yes, we.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Just received radiogram from the San Francisco police. Uh here,
I see you don't mind if I finish my drink?
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Would you care for him?
Speaker 6 (24:11):
If you just come with me? Sah, come on, have
a drink.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
An instant after you.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Throw the drink in his face, your fist connects with
his chin and he slumps to the floor.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Quickly.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You close the door, stand for a moment with your
back to it. Your mind's spinning wildly. They discovered you, now,
haven't they told me? And you've got to move fast.
Leaving the unconscious officers frawl down on the floor, you
hurry to doctor Rock.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
State that's what I said. No, it's got to be naw.
Speaker 9 (24:45):
We don't dock until tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
As soon as that officer wakes up, they're gonna be
tearing this board inside out looking for me.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
Here you tell, don't ask me.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
I haven't got it. You'll get going. I'm gonna wait
right here for you.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
The minutes dragged by, and you wait for Doctor Walk
to return. Pace his stateroom floor, stopping occasionally to pour
yourself a drink from the decanter on the night stand.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
An hour goes by, and then finally.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Oh hey, look where your bed. I I had to
be capularized. Everything all said, yes, yes, I I just had.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
A talk with the captain that well you double the arsons.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Away, I I told him.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
I thought I saw you trying to hide in one
of the lifeboats, saw you lose your footing ah ah,
I see the ship is circling the area now, well
that's smart if you doc, that's pretty smart.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Hey that colls for a drink.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
Huh, I could use sir. See you helped yourself.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Oh sure, I had a few.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Make me feel better while I'm resting in that box.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Stumble up to me.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
That's something I've got to tell you.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
You know all I need to know. I come on,
you finish your drinks.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
You know I'm gonna go out of the hold and
you can make me nice and comfortable. I said, come on,
I don't want to talk about it no more.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Very will you seem to be giving the orders.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Before continuing with a whistler strange story. Here's something everybody's for.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
We are for.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
You and God.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
And now for the Wistler's ending to his story for tonight,
in stun silent, young doctor Roy sat on the edge
of his father's bed, listening to the dying man as
(27:14):
he told his story in a voice that had now
faded to a bare whisper.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
The end was near for old doctor.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Roy, and as his son James leaned forward to catch
the last you remaining words, an expression of pain crossed
his face, said said you let Tony go, gonna get away?
Speaker 9 (27:34):
No losn he didn't get away.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
But you let him take another man's place in the casket,
your friend.
Speaker 11 (27:45):
Yes, he took my friend's place in the casket. The
body eye was accompanying to its final resting place. But
you see there were something Tony Delgardo didn't know.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
What's that dad.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
My friend that chosen as his final resting place.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
A bell at sea.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Featured in the night story were Bill Foreman as the Whistler,
with Lawrence Dobkin, Her Butterfield, Jean Tatum, Jack Moyl, and
Paul dubob The Whistler, directed by Sterling Tracy with music
by Wilbur Hatch, is produced by Joel Malone and transmitted
overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
This evening story was by Brian Thorne.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
The Whistler was entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on
The Whistler are also fictional. Any similarities of names or
resemblances to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. The Whistler,
(29:57):
whose strange story you have just heard, will be back
next week with another tale from his never ending fire.
This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television
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