November 20, 2025 • 29 mins
The Whistler was a suspenseful mystery anthology that ran from 1942-1955. A character known only as the Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate and had a suspenseful and eerie tone, always ending with a twist. The Whistler was later adapted to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I am the whistler, and I know any seen or
I left by night. I know any.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women
who have stepped into the shadows.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Okay, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare
not see.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And now the whistlers strange story. One dark night.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Though it was.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Only eight o'clock in the evening, it was quite dark
and the houses along the tree lined suburban street were quiet.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
In one house, a light could be seen.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Burning brightly through the front windows the house on the corner.
It's illuminating rays reaching out across the front lawn to
form fingerlike shafts of light and shadows. An inside, Frank
Jason paced the living room floor, moving with the nervous
steps and motions of a sensitive animal contemplating danger.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Frank Jason stopped his pacing on occasion.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Stare down at a large dark stain in the center
of the living room. Clackett, why don't you, Frank stand
talk for a long moment, your mind raking, and then
you hurry to the front door.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Hello, Frank, not disturbing you.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Amma, Oh no, dars, of course stopped. We're coming.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
You've seen nervous not worried about a next door neighbor
dropping in?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Are you boo boo?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I saw your light on. I thought i'd drop in.
You're ever loving wise and I had a date to
go in the morning.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
But I'm glad you started my Donnis.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I was about to phone you.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Oh, Frank, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Something wrong?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's about Cora. Do you have any idea where she
could be?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
She's not home.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
No, I haven't seen her since this morning when I
left for the office.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
You haven't. That's strange.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
What do you suppose did you see her today?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Round ten? This morning we had a cup of coffee.
That's when we planned to go shopping tomorrow. I came
by the tower. I couldn't make it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I'm worried, dons, worried, sick.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I called everywhere.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Wait min could she have gone to see her sister?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I thought of the first thing she does that often
takes off without telling me, but she usually calls me
when she gets.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
There, and she hasn't. No, did you call her sister's place?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yes, no answer, which he's.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Probably gone out. She could have tried to reach you
when you weren't here.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I haven't left the house since I got back from
the office.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Oh, I'm sure Cora is all right. She just forgot
to call you know how she is.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yes, that could be it.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I suppose for a while.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Let me know if you hear from her. Yeah, sure,
and don't worry. I'm sure Carra is all right.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Good night crying, good night.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Hello operator, give me the police department.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
You say, mister Jason, you last saw your wife this
morning when you left to the office.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yes, that's right, the timney.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
If you didn't mention your plans for the day or
the evening. No, what time did you get back from
the office.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
M Round three thirty or so is a bit earlier
than usual.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Oh, any reason for that, mister Jason.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Well, yes, I thought it would be nice if Carra
and I drove out to.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
The beach House for the weekend.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
The beach house.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
We have a little place at Shelton's Cove. Use it
for summer vacation weekend. I see, so you got here
on three point thirty and there was no note message
of anything. No, still early, only eight thirty. You'll probably
hear from her.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's not blank her, Lieutenant, not blank her at all.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
She's left without telling you where she's going before.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yes, but she usually calls later.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
This time she hasn't called.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I waited until seven thirty and then folded her sister
in Santa Barbara. There was no answer. I finally got
through to her just before you got here, Lieutenant, and
Cora hadn't been there, and her sister hadn't heard from her.
Something's happened to her, something dreadful.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I'll take it easy, mister Jason.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
There's no need to get excited, no need here. Let
me show you something, Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Over here.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Well that small scatter rug on the carpet, lift it up. Okay, Well,
what's this that's stayin?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Wasn't there this morning, Lieutenant not. There was a scotter rug.
Somebody put it there to hide the stain in the carpet.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Oh, it's still there.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I happened to notice it shortly before I called you.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
The rug doesn't belong here.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
We usually have it in front of the fireplace. I
was curious, went over to pick it up, and well
that's what I saw the stage.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Uh could it be blood? Yeah, it could be, mister Jason.
We'll check it.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
A kaleidoscope of thoughts and reactions go criss crossing through
your mind. Now, don't they think? As you wait to
the lieutenant for his men from the police lab to arrive,
go about their intricate, methodical check works. You watch them
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for a while and then round.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Her out of the kitchen, discover that.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Your hand is trembling as your light to cigarette. They're
not thinking of the man in the living room, are you, Franks?
Not at this moment as you stare out the window
in the darkness of the garden and back among the
thoughts is interrupted by the appearance of the Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That your side, mister Jason, Yes, I have the report?
Is it?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Blood?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I was afraid of that.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
This description of your life, mister Jason, dark hair, thirty
eight years old, five feet four weighed approximately.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
One hundred and eighteen pounds. Yes, like that hadn't come
down a headquartered with me down to the morgue.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
The morgue the body of a woman answering this general
description is found in the bay several hours ago.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
You mean you think it might.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Think yeah, and then again it might not be well,
mister Jason. Do you feel up to it? Yes, yes,
of course.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Ah, here we are, mister Jason, lieutenant, and just a moment,
if you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Here, would you like to sit down? I'll be all right.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
It's just like, oh, I know, take it easy, Yeah, all.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Right, I guess I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Let's get it over with.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Well, mister Jason.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
No, that's not Cora, Thank heavens, it's not Cora. Come on,
mister Jason, let's get a cup of coffee. Thanks Liartin,
I could use one. It all feels unreal to you,
(08:05):
doesn't it, Frank. Your conversation with the police lieutenant, his
lab man working in your living room, the visit to
the moor.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Smild things that you've read about in the papers but
never quite pictured, is happening to you, Yes, Frank, with
her like a dream, a haze of unfamiliar activity, of
questions and answers and nervousness, and cigarettes and cups of.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Coffee held in the shaking hands.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
And then finally, with the lieutenant driving you home, you
has begins to settle back in the place.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Reality returns, although silentaneously.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
With the sound of the.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Police car's front tires touching the curb in front of
your own home.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Home. Thanks, lieutenant, you've been very kind, not at all.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You'll let me know what you're hearing. Try I get
a good night's rest as the case. Yes, n.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Hello, oh, oh gosh.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Are you leaving the police car a while ago?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yes, I called him with our chorus, I'm afraid something
has happened to her.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Of course, something's happened to her, Frank, what it's dead
isn't true, And only the two of us know where
she is.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I don't understand, is in your back garden.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Where you buried her two hours ago? Right downing.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
All of us are proud of our hometowns, and rightly so.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
In this brief moment before we continue with our program,
we'd like to offer a salute to one of our
hometowns in America, Boston, Massachusetts. No city in the United
States is richer in historical associations than Boston, the tenth
largest city of our country. The Declaration of Independence was
proclaimed from the balcony of the Old State House. All
Revere saw the lantern shine from the Old North Church
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before his famous ride that opened the Revolutionary War. The
great New England poets had their homes here. Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Henry Wadsworth, Longfellow, Junior, Ward Howe, John Greenley Footier, and
writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Eddar Allen Pole.
To day, Boston is the largest market of the shoe
and leather industries in the world. It's also the largest
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wool market and the greatest fishing port in the United States.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And they have the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
It's the home of the Mother Church of Christian Science,
and people all over the world know about Boston products.
They buy three billion dollars worth of them every year.
It's no wonder that the people who call Boston their
hometown are proud of their two nicknames. They call Boston
the Hub of the Universe and the cradle of liberty.
Thus has Boston taken its place in the building of America.
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And now back to the whistler, The.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Feeling of a knifemare returns quickly. It doesn't as Frank,
you aspens the choosing word from Doris Martin. You're next
door neighbors. She's say you didn't you say you'll bow
your wife's crawler in the garden back of your house.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
And now the dread secret has to be shared with Yes, Frank,
The momentary faife toy you since as you said, good
knight to the.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Police lieutenant is wrong right away, even.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
More shockingly because of the calm, assured serenity of the
fastly smiling, attractive young woman staying before you. You'll turn
mechanically and moved toward the house and all smart returns
to shadow eye. It's been strangely a part of you now,
and she follows you inside.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
You see, Frank, I came over late this fasterinoon to
talk with car about the shopping trip with plans. That
door was opened. I walked into the kitchen. The two
of you were too.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Busy arguing to hear me. Then they have heard everything.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Yes, the money you were talking about, the old lady,
thirty five thousand dollars, That was Missus Saraday, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yes, it was Missus Saraday.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Carara had been her secretary companion once you had been
Missus Saraday's lawyer.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That's how you mess, all right, Dori.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
The old lady has fashed the money somewhere in the house,
and when she died, you and Karla took it. No
one ever knew she told you. No. I thought of
added things up after overhearing the conversation this afternoon. Cora
was all set to skip out with the money, wasn't she?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Yes, if I couldn't come home early surprised her.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
You surprised me, Frank. I never saw you in such
a rage. And then when you picked up the letter up.
Now all right, Hm, you need a drink?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
No, what are you learn to do? Guys?
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Do one? Nothing, Darling, nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I'll keep your.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Little secret were your dies, of course, providing, providing I
make it worth your while?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Is that it?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
M you won't find this greedy Frank. I think you'll
get along side for two of us. Darling, Darling your
last It's only the door, they'll I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
No, No, I wait, you better get out the back way.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
It's late and it might not look right.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
I don't be silly. Look, I'm your next door neighbor.
I just heard about Car's disappearance. I'm her best friend.
Get right where you are, friends, the most natural thing
in the world. Need to be right here worrying with you?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Oh hell evening?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Oh say now wait a minute, wait a minute, let
me see, let me see you at Doris.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
All right, right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, nice to see you, honey.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
The folks have uh Frank is come on, well, Hi,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
How's a boy? Hello, Harry, have you been O? Great's great?
I uh thought you went out of town bad. I
just got in and MA the way to San Diego.
So I lied on, thought i'd stopped buying. See you
kiss faced? Where's Corras you sleep?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
See you? She's not here?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Huh Hey, hey, fellow, shout the room. Uh you know
looks so good. Yes, something is wrong, Harry. Corner has disappeared, disappeared, Cora.
She wasn't home when I got back from her office.
I called everywhere. No one's seen her. Hey, maybe she's
been in an accident.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Do you check the hospitals.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Taking care of Harry?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Look, Frank, you and Cora? Yes, well, I mean glad
you didn't have a quad.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Did you know?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Of course, no palace.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You might have gone up to Santa Barb. But it's
oh she's not there and you you don't have well,
you don't have any idea where she might.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I don't like this, Frank, I don't like it at all.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Sit down, Harry. I was about six a drinks for Frank.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
No, no, don't trouble doll.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
So trouble how about you, Harry?
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, I could go for a drinks plain water,
flame water, it is.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah. Well, I don't know what to make of this.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Frank you not like Cora to take off like that,
not to let you know where she is. I don't
mind telling you, Harry.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I'm worried. I'm worried, sick.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Sure, sure, I know how you feel.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
As there was something I could do. What can we do?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Nothing, nothing, I guess. Just sit and wake, that's all.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Just sit and wait, Harry.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
A sudden appearance at the house and some things have
waned and worry about, isn't it friend?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, you haven't seen her, heard from him, and weep.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
At the night of her night?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Is m sitting in the easy chair across from you.
I don't kill you, not so much now that they
have drink so the strange expression in his face and
your affairs.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Now and your mind becomes more and more uneasy and
restless as the minutes go by.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Finally, Harry places the empty glass down on the enerty.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Alright, alright, I think I'll shove off.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Just let me go.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
You here that you can quh I I I'll be
staking of you're my hotel.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Then then you're not going on the sand too. No, no,
it couldn't wait, and I'll just stick around.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Well, thanks for the drink, not Harry, not you, fright,
I'll be seated.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Nice, Harry, m You.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Can relax now, Darling, he's gone.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
No thanks to you. Why did you have to encouraged.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Him to stay? I just wanted to find out what
was on his mind. You know, your dear brother in
law is a big fat liar. Why he said he
got into town a couple of hours ago, didn't he?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Really? It might did to st you to though. He
was here in this house last night with Cora while.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You were out rolling here last night.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
That's right. I saw him leaving around ten. Now why
do you suppose he lied, Frank?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
I can make a guess. Carara was always very fond
of her little brother Harry, wasn't she? Yes, so he
dropped in last night mentioned he was on his way
to San Diego. This is cara An idea. She'll take
the money nself with Harry. Maybe he takes her to
the border for services rendered. She cuts him in on
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the thirty five thousand. Well, what do you think.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I think that's a very good guest.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Star, it's a very good guest.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
He's probably arranged to meet somewhere this afternoon. Courra didn't show,
so little harrycrotts over here tonight to find out what's
pulling things up.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Of course he knows.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
About that money, I'm sure of it. And now he's
gonna stick around. He means trouble, fright real. I think
we'd better keep a close watch on him from now on.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
There's very little sleep for you. That night is the
time the second Dorus is right, Harry and Cora.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Working together, running away, sharing the money. And now that
Cora has disappeared, he must suspect that you had something
to do.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
The following morning, as you rander out of the kitchen,
you happen to glance out the window and see someone
moving about in the back garden through the trees, someone
who I'm staring a bit.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah, morning, oh Harry.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Yeah, you just got by to see if you'd heard
anything from Cora.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
No, not a word. Yeah, I saw your bedroom. Cratons
were going. I didn't want to disturbe you.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You wouldn't rough night, huh, But earlier.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
It was myself wondering about Cora.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
You know where she could have gone to and why?
Oh well, cigarette, Frank, thanks no having that breakfast.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I think I'll go back to the house.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
You tell me, h yeah, yeah, Hey, you know you've
fixed up your garden, nice, Frank, real nice. Well, I
don't have too much time to work on it. Weekends
mostly have staid.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You've done a nice job. I see you've changed the
Dadia bats ground and turned up Yes, Cora's idea.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
She likes Statius.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Say say, isn't that your the pone? Yes, that might
be the police if there's some news.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Get rid of him, Frank.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Just a what is it, Frank, it's not the police.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
It's it's my office. I have to go in.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Oh well, now.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I'll be shoving off. Have some business to take care
of downtown.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I'll be back at the hotel around six to night.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
If you want to get in touch, all right, Harry along,
I'll be seeing you, Doris.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I'll be over.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
What did he want?
Speaker 5 (20:36):
I said, that will be over.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I don't see why you get so excited.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
We're not discussing things over the poem.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
It's too risky.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
But all right, So what did Harry want?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
He was asking about Cora.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
He noticed the flower bit I turned over.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
I think he suspects be ridiculous, how quitty.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I don't know what he suspects.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I tell you, I see, Well, what are we gonna do?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I don't know, Doll, Sorry, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I think the beach cottage is the perfect place for it, Frank.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
The perfect place for what for Harry's little accident?
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Don't you remember what happened out there less than a
year ago?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
You mean the prior the explosion?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
That's right, the old fashioned lamp, Frank, hanging on a
pulley from the ceiling. The explosion is cars. That was
an accident, only this time that.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Will be on purpose. How can we get Harry out there?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I'll call him at the hotel to night, tell him
we that is the neighbors are worried about you. We
think you've gone out to the cottage. Carla's disappearances grieved you,
so we're a little afraid of what you might do.
That uh, someone should be with you.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yes, yes, I see.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
He gets out there, finds the cottage dark like the lamp.
I troubled her over, Frank, Well.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
The coming of night.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
You're strangely calm, aren't you, Frank Sharings Are that's confident
that the plan will work? Yes, because it must work.
You'll find that your car has a low tire t
Varro Dorith's car and drive out to the beach and
park a short distance from the cottage.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Go the rest of the way on foot. It doesn't
take me long for what you have to do. Set
the verbal trap for Harry and all nuts later. You
put in a car on a dor Yes.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Frank, I am. I talk to our friend at the hotel.
He'll be leaving for the cottage in the quarter of
an hour.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Good, it's all set for him.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I'm heading back to town around oh, Frank.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Yes, after you get back and put my car away,
will you call me?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Sure, Dares, I'll call him.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
It's the four in its past seven. When you return
to your house. Harry will be leaving his hotel shortly,
and then let's drive to the cottage. Hand it will
be now home. You'll reach for the phone to Cloud
Dallas when.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Evening mister Jason, Oh, Lieutenant, Uh, come in. I thought
I'd dropped by into the neighborhood all afternoon, checking shops, stores.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
But there's been no news of corn. I haven't turned
up a lead yet. However, put in the call.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
To headquarters a few minutes ago. It seems they got
word from a service station attendant.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Out of the beach.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
What yeh thinks he saw a light at your beach
cottage earlier tonight. Could have been a reflection of a
car passing on the road, though he's not sure.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Oh, you must have been mistaken there. Still, if you'd
let me have a kid'd like to run out there
and have a look. Now, yeah, they'll have a squad
car picked me up.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Now what well I mean I'll drive you out there, Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Uh huh, Well, I need what you do.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Really, it's it's no trouble and I'd like to go
I please.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Okay, we'll call headquarters let him know where I'll be.
I'll get my car out of the garage. Your gray
is nervously if you watch, and you'll start out of.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
The house in the garage, you'll reach in your pocket
for your car. Key, I remember you lefting in your car.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You've got the star with a turnant as, don't you, Frank.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yes, Harry is probably just leaving his hotel now.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
And it's what don't go with the lieutenant. It's the
cottage before he gets the blaze. Frank, five minutes or so,
that's all I made. You want your car bang down
and unscore the tire valve and the.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Low tire a few minutes later than the turn chimes.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
You are being wrong with the Jason h straight So
flat tire? Uh oh, maybe I had better call a squad.
Oh no, no, don't bother won't take us five minutes
to change.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
The tire and then we drive out to the cottage.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Okay, I guess a few minutes one way Orno, It
won't make much difference.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
The time made. The change of flat tire is important.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Missing Strank, Yes, because it was the way of the
police lieutenant from reaching the beach cottage before your brother
in law, Harry Adams does before the accident. That will
take his right and three you are Harry Straight. As
you reach inside the car and take the king from
munition switch, you'll hear your phone ring inside the house.
You'll hand your car keys to the lieutenant and hurry
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has the driveway to answer your phone.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
But you reach the phone, who linked the wire is
dead and a land later.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Burish Why don't you call me or answer the phone?
Speaker 2 (25:44):
You kind of chowed up.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Look, Doris, he talked at the car.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Now wants me to go out to the cottage with him.
I'm trying to stall him until I'm certain.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Harry gets there.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
He walks, Frank, Harry is dead. What he didn't fall
for our little gag. Instead of going out to the cottage,
he went straight to your backyard started digging.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Harsh it is no.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I got behind him with a shovel. You were right,
Frankie New I found Cora's earring in his pocket. You
must have found it near the flower bed this morning.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Doris Worsey, what did you do? What else?
Speaker 4 (26:11):
We had to get him out of there. I dragged
him into a garage. He is to your car in
the ignition. So I put Harry in the trunk compartment.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Trunk compartment.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
The spare tire is in there.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
The new can't find the body.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
I have found the body, mister Jason and the two
murderers too fight a chummy arrangement you.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Two neighbors.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Featured in Tonight's story were Bill Farman as the Whistler,
Les Romaine, Alice Reinharst, Lawrence Dobkin and Eddie Maher. The Whistler,
directed by Gordon T. Hughes with music by Wilber Hatch,
is produced by Joel Malone and transmitted overseas by the
Armed Forces Radio Service. This evening story was by Adrian
John Doe. The Whistler was entirely fictional, that all characters
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portrayed on the Whistler are also fictional. Any similarities of
names or resemblances to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
This is George Walsh.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Speaking and reminding you to listen again next week or
another strange tale by the Whistler. Now Whistler, the strange
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story you have just heard. We'll be back next week
with another tale from He's Never rund On Fire. This
is the United States I'm Forces Radio and Television Service
Speaker 4 (29:05):
In
The whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I am the whistler, and I know any seen or
I left by night. I know any.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women
who have stepped into the shadows.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Okay, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare
not see.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And now the whistlers strange story. One dark night.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Though it was.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Only eight o'clock in the evening, it was quite dark
and the houses along the tree lined suburban street were quiet.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
In one house, a light could be seen.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Burning brightly through the front windows the house on the corner.
It's illuminating rays reaching out across the front lawn to
form fingerlike shafts of light and shadows. An inside, Frank
Jason paced the living room floor, moving with the nervous
steps and motions of a sensitive animal contemplating danger.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Frank Jason stopped his pacing on occasion.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Stare down at a large dark stain in the center
of the living room. Clackett, why don't you, Frank stand
talk for a long moment, your mind raking, and then
you hurry to the front door.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Hello, Frank, not disturbing you.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Amma, Oh no, dars, of course stopped. We're coming.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
You've seen nervous not worried about a next door neighbor
dropping in?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Are you boo boo?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I saw your light on. I thought i'd drop in.
You're ever loving wise and I had a date to
go in the morning.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
But I'm glad you started my Donnis.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I was about to phone you.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Oh, Frank, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Something wrong?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's about Cora. Do you have any idea where she
could be?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
She's not home.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
No, I haven't seen her since this morning when I
left for the office.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
You haven't. That's strange.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
What do you suppose did you see her today?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Round ten? This morning we had a cup of coffee.
That's when we planned to go shopping tomorrow. I came
by the tower. I couldn't make it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I'm worried, dons, worried, sick.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I called everywhere.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Wait min could she have gone to see her sister?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I thought of the first thing she does that often
takes off without telling me, but she usually calls me
when she gets.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
There, and she hasn't. No, did you call her sister's place?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yes, no answer, which he's.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Probably gone out. She could have tried to reach you
when you weren't here.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I haven't left the house since I got back from
the office.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Oh, I'm sure Cora is all right. She just forgot
to call you know how she is.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yes, that could be it.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I suppose for a while.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Let me know if you hear from her. Yeah, sure,
and don't worry. I'm sure Carra is all right.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Good night crying, good night.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Hello operator, give me the police department.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
You say, mister Jason, you last saw your wife this
morning when you left to the office.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yes, that's right, the timney.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
If you didn't mention your plans for the day or
the evening. No, what time did you get back from
the office.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
M Round three thirty or so is a bit earlier
than usual.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Oh, any reason for that, mister Jason.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Well, yes, I thought it would be nice if Carra
and I drove out to.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
The beach House for the weekend.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
The beach house.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
We have a little place at Shelton's Cove. Use it
for summer vacation weekend. I see, so you got here
on three point thirty and there was no note message
of anything. No, still early, only eight thirty. You'll probably
hear from her.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's not blank her, Lieutenant, not blank her at all.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
She's left without telling you where she's going before.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yes, but she usually calls later.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
This time she hasn't called.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I waited until seven thirty and then folded her sister
in Santa Barbara. There was no answer. I finally got
through to her just before you got here, Lieutenant, and
Cora hadn't been there, and her sister hadn't heard from her.
Something's happened to her, something dreadful.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I'll take it easy, mister Jason.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
There's no need to get excited, no need here. Let
me show you something, Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Over here.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Well that small scatter rug on the carpet, lift it up. Okay, Well,
what's this that's stayin?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Wasn't there this morning, Lieutenant not. There was a scotter rug.
Somebody put it there to hide the stain in the carpet.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Oh, it's still there.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I happened to notice it shortly before I called you.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
The rug doesn't belong here.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
We usually have it in front of the fireplace. I
was curious, went over to pick it up, and well
that's what I saw the stage.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Uh could it be blood? Yeah, it could be, mister Jason.
We'll check it.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
A kaleidoscope of thoughts and reactions go criss crossing through
your mind. Now, don't they think? As you wait to
the lieutenant for his men from the police lab to arrive,
go about their intricate, methodical check works. You watch them
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for a while and then round.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Her out of the kitchen, discover that.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Your hand is trembling as your light to cigarette. They're
not thinking of the man in the living room, are you, Franks?
Not at this moment as you stare out the window
in the darkness of the garden and back among the
thoughts is interrupted by the appearance of the Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That your side, mister Jason, Yes, I have the report?
Is it?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Blood?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I was afraid of that.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
This description of your life, mister Jason, dark hair, thirty
eight years old, five feet four weighed approximately.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
One hundred and eighteen pounds. Yes, like that hadn't come
down a headquartered with me down to the morgue.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
The morgue the body of a woman answering this general
description is found in the bay several hours ago.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
You mean you think it might.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Think yeah, and then again it might not be well,
mister Jason. Do you feel up to it? Yes, yes,
of course.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Ah, here we are, mister Jason, lieutenant, and just a moment,
if you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Here, would you like to sit down? I'll be all right.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
It's just like, oh, I know, take it easy, Yeah, all.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Right, I guess I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Let's get it over with.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Well, mister Jason.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
No, that's not Cora, Thank heavens, it's not Cora. Come on,
mister Jason, let's get a cup of coffee. Thanks Liartin,
I could use one. It all feels unreal to you,
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doesn't it, Frank. Your conversation with the police lieutenant, his
lab man working in your living room, the visit to
the moor.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Smild things that you've read about in the papers but
never quite pictured, is happening to you, Yes, Frank, with
her like a dream, a haze of unfamiliar activity, of
questions and answers and nervousness, and cigarettes and cups of.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Coffee held in the shaking hands.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
And then finally, with the lieutenant driving you home, you
has begins to settle back in the place.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Reality returns, although silentaneously.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
With the sound of the.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Police car's front tires touching the curb in front of
your own home.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Home. Thanks, lieutenant, you've been very kind, not at all.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You'll let me know what you're hearing. Try I get
a good night's rest as the case. Yes, n.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Hello, oh, oh gosh.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Are you leaving the police car a while ago?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yes, I called him with our chorus, I'm afraid something
has happened to her.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Of course, something's happened to her, Frank, what it's dead
isn't true, And only the two of us know where
she is.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I don't understand, is in your back garden.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Where you buried her two hours ago? Right downing.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
All of us are proud of our hometowns, and rightly so.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
In this brief moment before we continue with our program,
we'd like to offer a salute to one of our
hometowns in America, Boston, Massachusetts. No city in the United
States is richer in historical associations than Boston, the tenth
largest city of our country. The Declaration of Independence was
proclaimed from the balcony of the Old State House. All
Revere saw the lantern shine from the Old North Church
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before his famous ride that opened the Revolutionary War. The
great New England poets had their homes here. Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Henry Wadsworth, Longfellow, Junior, Ward Howe, John Greenley Footier, and
writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Eddar Allen Pole.
To day, Boston is the largest market of the shoe
and leather industries in the world. It's also the largest
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wool market and the greatest fishing port in the United States.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And they have the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
It's the home of the Mother Church of Christian Science,
and people all over the world know about Boston products.
They buy three billion dollars worth of them every year.
It's no wonder that the people who call Boston their
hometown are proud of their two nicknames. They call Boston
the Hub of the Universe and the cradle of liberty.
Thus has Boston taken its place in the building of America.
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And now back to the whistler, The.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Feeling of a knifemare returns quickly. It doesn't as Frank,
you aspens the choosing word from Doris Martin. You're next
door neighbors. She's say you didn't you say you'll bow
your wife's crawler in the garden back of your house.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
And now the dread secret has to be shared with Yes, Frank,
The momentary faife toy you since as you said, good
knight to the.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Police lieutenant is wrong right away, even.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
More shockingly because of the calm, assured serenity of the
fastly smiling, attractive young woman staying before you. You'll turn
mechanically and moved toward the house and all smart returns
to shadow eye. It's been strangely a part of you now,
and she follows you inside.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
You see, Frank, I came over late this fasterinoon to
talk with car about the shopping trip with plans. That
door was opened. I walked into the kitchen. The two
of you were too.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Busy arguing to hear me. Then they have heard everything.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Yes, the money you were talking about, the old lady,
thirty five thousand dollars, That was Missus Saraday, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yes, it was Missus Saraday.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Carara had been her secretary companion once you had been
Missus Saraday's lawyer.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That's how you mess, all right, Dori.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
The old lady has fashed the money somewhere in the house,
and when she died, you and Karla took it. No
one ever knew she told you. No. I thought of
added things up after overhearing the conversation this afternoon. Cora
was all set to skip out with the money, wasn't she?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Yes, if I couldn't come home early surprised her.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
You surprised me, Frank. I never saw you in such
a rage. And then when you picked up the letter up.
Now all right, Hm, you need a drink?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
No, what are you learn to do? Guys?
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Do one? Nothing, Darling, nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I'll keep your.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Little secret were your dies, of course, providing, providing I
make it worth your while?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Is that it?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
M you won't find this greedy Frank. I think you'll
get along side for two of us. Darling, Darling your
last It's only the door, they'll I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
No, No, I wait, you better get out the back way.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
It's late and it might not look right.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
I don't be silly. Look, I'm your next door neighbor.
I just heard about Car's disappearance. I'm her best friend.
Get right where you are, friends, the most natural thing
in the world. Need to be right here worrying with you?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Oh hell evening?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Oh say now wait a minute, wait a minute, let
me see, let me see you at Doris.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
All right, right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, nice to see you, honey.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
The folks have uh Frank is come on, well, Hi,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
How's a boy? Hello, Harry, have you been O? Great's great?
I uh thought you went out of town bad. I
just got in and MA the way to San Diego.
So I lied on, thought i'd stopped buying. See you
kiss faced? Where's Corras you sleep?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
See you? She's not here?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Huh Hey, hey, fellow, shout the room. Uh you know
looks so good. Yes, something is wrong, Harry. Corner has disappeared, disappeared, Cora.
She wasn't home when I got back from her office.
I called everywhere. No one's seen her. Hey, maybe she's
been in an accident.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Do you check the hospitals.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Taking care of Harry?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Look, Frank, you and Cora? Yes, well, I mean glad
you didn't have a quad.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Did you know?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Of course, no palace.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You might have gone up to Santa Barb. But it's
oh she's not there and you you don't have well,
you don't have any idea where she might.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I don't like this, Frank, I don't like it at all.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Sit down, Harry. I was about six a drinks for Frank.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
No, no, don't trouble doll.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
So trouble how about you, Harry?
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, I could go for a drinks plain water,
flame water, it is.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah. Well, I don't know what to make of this.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Frank you not like Cora to take off like that,
not to let you know where she is. I don't
mind telling you, Harry.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I'm worried. I'm worried, sick.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Sure, sure, I know how you feel.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
As there was something I could do. What can we do?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Nothing, nothing, I guess. Just sit and wake, that's all.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Just sit and wait, Harry.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
A sudden appearance at the house and some things have
waned and worry about, isn't it friend?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, you haven't seen her, heard from him, and weep.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
At the night of her night?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Is m sitting in the easy chair across from you.
I don't kill you, not so much now that they
have drink so the strange expression in his face and
your affairs.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Now and your mind becomes more and more uneasy and
restless as the minutes go by.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Finally, Harry places the empty glass down on the enerty.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Alright, alright, I think I'll shove off.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Just let me go.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
You here that you can quh I I I'll be
staking of you're my hotel.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Then then you're not going on the sand too. No, no,
it couldn't wait, and I'll just stick around.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Well, thanks for the drink, not Harry, not you, fright,
I'll be seated.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Nice, Harry, m You.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Can relax now, Darling, he's gone.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
No thanks to you. Why did you have to encouraged.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Him to stay? I just wanted to find out what
was on his mind. You know, your dear brother in
law is a big fat liar. Why he said he
got into town a couple of hours ago, didn't he?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Really? It might did to st you to though. He
was here in this house last night with Cora while.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You were out rolling here last night.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
That's right. I saw him leaving around ten. Now why
do you suppose he lied, Frank?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
I can make a guess. Carara was always very fond
of her little brother Harry, wasn't she? Yes, so he
dropped in last night mentioned he was on his way
to San Diego. This is cara An idea. She'll take
the money nself with Harry. Maybe he takes her to
the border for services rendered. She cuts him in on
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the thirty five thousand. Well, what do you think.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I think that's a very good guest.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Star, it's a very good guest.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
He's probably arranged to meet somewhere this afternoon. Courra didn't show,
so little harrycrotts over here tonight to find out what's
pulling things up.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Of course he knows.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
About that money, I'm sure of it. And now he's
gonna stick around. He means trouble, fright real. I think
we'd better keep a close watch on him from now on.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
There's very little sleep for you. That night is the
time the second Dorus is right, Harry and Cora.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Working together, running away, sharing the money. And now that
Cora has disappeared, he must suspect that you had something
to do.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
The following morning, as you rander out of the kitchen,
you happen to glance out the window and see someone
moving about in the back garden through the trees, someone
who I'm staring a bit.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah, morning, oh Harry.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Yeah, you just got by to see if you'd heard
anything from Cora.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
No, not a word. Yeah, I saw your bedroom. Cratons
were going. I didn't want to disturbe you.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You wouldn't rough night, huh, But earlier.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
It was myself wondering about Cora.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
You know where she could have gone to and why?
Oh well, cigarette, Frank, thanks no having that breakfast.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I think I'll go back to the house.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
You tell me, h yeah, yeah, Hey, you know you've
fixed up your garden, nice, Frank, real nice. Well, I
don't have too much time to work on it. Weekends
mostly have staid.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You've done a nice job. I see you've changed the
Dadia bats ground and turned up Yes, Cora's idea.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
She likes Statius.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Say say, isn't that your the pone? Yes, that might
be the police if there's some news.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Get rid of him, Frank.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Just a what is it, Frank, it's not the police.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
It's it's my office. I have to go in.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Oh well, now.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I'll be shoving off. Have some business to take care
of downtown.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I'll be back at the hotel around six to night.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
If you want to get in touch, all right, Harry along,
I'll be seeing you, Doris.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I'll be over.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
What did he want?
Speaker 5 (20:36):
I said, that will be over.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I don't see why you get so excited.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
We're not discussing things over the poem.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
It's too risky.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
But all right, So what did Harry want?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
He was asking about Cora.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
He noticed the flower bit I turned over.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
I think he suspects be ridiculous, how quitty.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I don't know what he suspects.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I tell you, I see, Well, what are we gonna do?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I don't know, Doll, Sorry, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I think the beach cottage is the perfect place for it, Frank.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
The perfect place for what for Harry's little accident?
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Don't you remember what happened out there less than a
year ago?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
You mean the prior the explosion?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
That's right, the old fashioned lamp, Frank, hanging on a
pulley from the ceiling. The explosion is cars. That was
an accident, only this time that.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Will be on purpose. How can we get Harry out there?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I'll call him at the hotel to night, tell him
we that is the neighbors are worried about you. We
think you've gone out to the cottage. Carla's disappearances grieved you,
so we're a little afraid of what you might do.
That uh, someone should be with you.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yes, yes, I see.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
He gets out there, finds the cottage dark like the lamp.
I troubled her over, Frank, Well.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
The coming of night.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
You're strangely calm, aren't you, Frank Sharings Are that's confident
that the plan will work? Yes, because it must work.
You'll find that your car has a low tire t
Varro Dorith's car and drive out to the beach and
park a short distance from the cottage.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Go the rest of the way on foot. It doesn't
take me long for what you have to do. Set
the verbal trap for Harry and all nuts later. You
put in a car on a dor Yes.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Frank, I am. I talk to our friend at the hotel.
He'll be leaving for the cottage in the quarter of
an hour.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Good, it's all set for him.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I'm heading back to town around oh, Frank.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Yes, after you get back and put my car away,
will you call me?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Sure, Dares, I'll call him.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
It's the four in its past seven. When you return
to your house. Harry will be leaving his hotel shortly,
and then let's drive to the cottage. Hand it will
be now home. You'll reach for the phone to Cloud
Dallas when.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Evening mister Jason, Oh, Lieutenant, Uh, come in. I thought
I'd dropped by into the neighborhood all afternoon, checking shops, stores.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
But there's been no news of corn. I haven't turned
up a lead yet. However, put in the call.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
To headquarters a few minutes ago. It seems they got
word from a service station attendant.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Out of the beach.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
What yeh thinks he saw a light at your beach
cottage earlier tonight. Could have been a reflection of a
car passing on the road, though he's not sure.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Oh, you must have been mistaken there. Still, if you'd
let me have a kid'd like to run out there
and have a look. Now, yeah, they'll have a squad
car picked me up.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Now what well I mean I'll drive you out there, Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Uh huh, Well, I need what you do.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Really, it's it's no trouble and I'd like to go
I please.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Okay, we'll call headquarters let him know where I'll be.
I'll get my car out of the garage. Your gray
is nervously if you watch, and you'll start out of.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
The house in the garage, you'll reach in your pocket
for your car. Key, I remember you lefting in your car.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You've got the star with a turnant as, don't you, Frank.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yes, Harry is probably just leaving his hotel now.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
And it's what don't go with the lieutenant. It's the
cottage before he gets the blaze. Frank, five minutes or so,
that's all I made. You want your car bang down
and unscore the tire valve and the.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Low tire a few minutes later than the turn chimes.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
You are being wrong with the Jason h straight So
flat tire? Uh oh, maybe I had better call a squad.
Oh no, no, don't bother won't take us five minutes
to change.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
The tire and then we drive out to the cottage.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Okay, I guess a few minutes one way Orno, It
won't make much difference.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
The time made. The change of flat tire is important.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Missing Strank, Yes, because it was the way of the
police lieutenant from reaching the beach cottage before your brother
in law, Harry Adams does before the accident. That will
take his right and three you are Harry Straight. As
you reach inside the car and take the king from
munition switch, you'll hear your phone ring inside the house.
You'll hand your car keys to the lieutenant and hurry
(25:33):
has the driveway to answer your phone.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
But you reach the phone, who linked the wire is
dead and a land later.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Burish Why don't you call me or answer the phone?
Speaker 2 (25:44):
You kind of chowed up.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Look, Doris, he talked at the car.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Now wants me to go out to the cottage with him.
I'm trying to stall him until I'm certain.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Harry gets there.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
He walks, Frank, Harry is dead. What he didn't fall
for our little gag. Instead of going out to the cottage,
he went straight to your backyard started digging.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Harsh it is no.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I got behind him with a shovel. You were right,
Frankie New I found Cora's earring in his pocket. You
must have found it near the flower bed this morning.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Doris Worsey, what did you do? What else?
Speaker 4 (26:11):
We had to get him out of there. I dragged
him into a garage. He is to your car in
the ignition. So I put Harry in the trunk compartment.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Trunk compartment.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
The spare tire is in there.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
The new can't find the body.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
I have found the body, mister Jason and the two
murderers too fight a chummy arrangement you.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Two neighbors.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Featured in Tonight's story were Bill Farman as the Whistler,
Les Romaine, Alice Reinharst, Lawrence Dobkin and Eddie Maher. The Whistler,
directed by Gordon T. Hughes with music by Wilber Hatch,
is produced by Joel Malone and transmitted overseas by the
Armed Forces Radio Service. This evening story was by Adrian
John Doe. The Whistler was entirely fictional, that all characters
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portrayed on the Whistler are also fictional. Any similarities of
names or resemblances to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
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Speaker 5 (27:23):
Speaking and reminding you to listen again next week or
another strange tale by the Whistler. Now Whistler, the strange
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