August 3, 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 (00:02):
And now stay tuned for the program that has rated
tops in popularity for a longer period of time than
any other West Coast program in radio history, The Signal
Oil Program, The Whistler Signal, the famous Go Farther Gasoline
(00:27):
invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
For I walk by night.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of
men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes,
I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's strange
story returned with the spray.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It was a quiet wedding in a small church in
San Diego, but every one who counted considered it the
most important social event of the seas. Elliott Darby, the
last surviving member of one of the city's oldest families,
was being united with his second cousin, Katherine Peabody. You
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stand at the altar, Elliott, immaculate in your striped trousers
and morning coat, facing the isle that Catherine will walk
to become your bribe. Inside, you feel none of the
nervousness attributed to bridegroom, only deep satisfaction with the turns
of fortune. You let your eyes roam over your wedding gifts,
most of them family friends, and suddenly, seated only a
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few feet away from you, you see her, her face
looking up at you with a mocking smile.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
No, it can't be.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And then you feel your knees buckling.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Come on to get a buncher.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
How could she be there, Elliot, her eyes mocking you,
smiling at your shock, reveling in it. It takes you back,
doesn't it, Elliott? Just a few weeks ago, really at
a meeting with your lawyer when he gave you the verdict.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
That's about the size of an Elliot, you're broke. Not
very pleasant, but well, there it is. I didn't dream
it was that bad. Well, you still have clear title
on your cabin cruiser.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Bring in.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
No, I won't sell the Adventurer. Dad bought that for
me when I was graduated from college. All of us
have been in love with that.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Both some to you. I don't know what to.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Do exactly from where I said, Elliott, there are only
two things you can do. What's that? Either find some
suitable work or marry quickly and wisely.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Well, Elliott works out of the question, and that leaves
only to marry quickly and wisely. It's obvious then that
you think of Catherine. Obvious too that her father, Thomas Peabody,
managed their money far better than you have.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
The Derbies.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
So you turned to Katherine arrange dinner with her in
her home a few evenings later.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Catherine, this lobsterrous SuperM You've.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Been very complimentary this evening, my dress, my wine, now
my lobster.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
I just can't help it. But You're flattery always.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Makes me suspicious.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
It should You have every reason to believe I'm after
your money.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Yes, I'm afraid I do, and.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Let's face it, it's partly true. But that's not the
whole story. Care No, there's no point in pretending I'm
hopelessly in love with you.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I know very well you're not.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
But I'm not.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Looking for that in a woman. I want someone I
can be fond of and comfortable with, a stable person.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
That's more or less my view.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
In that case, I ohkas, why don't we get married?
I should like to very much.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Don't kiss me yet, Elliott. I'd like to say something
for it. I learned very early in life that I'm
not an attractive woman.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Cat really, don't let me finish.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
The one thing I can always depend on is my wealth,
and I intend to keep complete control of it even
after I'm married.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
In other words, you're saying you don't trust.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Me, you know any other males.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I suppose you plan to give me a small sum
for cigarette money every week.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
I'm going to appoint your manager of the Peabody Department
store at a good sellary. It's for all your other faults, elliot.
You have a very good mind, special talent for order
and detail, a man of habits. And let's see, it's
it's Wednesday evening. That means billiards at your club promptly
at eight thirty.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
And I dare say you still take your boat the
Adventurer on an afternoon cause every Sunday.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yes I do, religiously, You're a wonder care You really
do know me, don't you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Later, when you leave her, you go to your club,
but only for a while. Then you get in your car,
drive around, and the more you think about it, the
madder you get. If you marry Catherine, you'll become another
of her possessions, her errand boys. You have to think, Elliot.
You stop at a bar on the outskirts of town,
and you do think and drink for a long time.
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You ignore the talkative bartender, You ignore everything.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Are you really as far away as you look?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Hell no, No, not really.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
That's good. Come on, let's talk. People call me that.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
People are lucky. My name is Sir Edward Edward Duncan.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Ed.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Now, first we'll talk about you, and we'll talk about me.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Oh no, you have to start off first.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
There's nothing much to tell about me, just a small
town girl looking for a job from friends, nice friends.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I think you found a nice friend. I think so good.
You sold on this bar. Now, particularly, let's get out
of here. A lot of other places. We'll do them all.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Sound like fun, sounds wonderful, John.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And that's all you remember, Elliott. Until the bright midday
sun await you. It's quite a shock to find yourself
sprawled on the deck of your cruiser, the adventurer, tied
to the dock. You shade your eyes with the sun,
look about you and try to remember what happened, how
you got here. With effort, you get up stumble to
the rail and squint out at the dock, and then
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you see her, and suddenly you remember Yvette.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
Hey, wake up, fight me aboard.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Of course, of course, Well you don't look so bad.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
I guess the driver took pretty good care of you,
after all, driver, taxi driver. He could carry you.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Oh, I'm sorry I was so much troubley. How about
a cruise, a short one this time.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Fine, that's all you have time for?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
The sea air might clear your head. Elie, you untie
the mooring line, start the engine and guide the adventurer
effortlessly out of the harbor toward the sea. No other
craft in sight. It's a beautiful day for a crew,
but you see very little beauty.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Sorry, I gave you a bad time last night. I
didn't mean to get out of hands.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
Oh that's all right.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
You'll have lots of time to make up for it.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yes, of course you you don't remember, do you taxi driving?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
No? I'm no.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
I mean you don't remember that we got married.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Do you marriage?
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Oh? No?
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Yes, I have the marriage certificate here if you care
to look at it, darling.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You stare at the marriage certificate.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Evet holds out to you.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So that's what happened, Elliot. You and e Vet were
married last night and you don't remember, do you, But
she proceeds to fill in the details. You were married
at three o'clock in the morning a small town over
the border. Then on the way back the taxi e
Vet hailed after she made you park the car because
you couldn't drive. The driver who took her back to
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her hotel brought you to the Adventurer. Now you really
have something to think about. You followed part of your
lawyer's advice. You've married quickly, Ellie, But how wisely? Your
eyes wander over the marriage certificate again, and suddenly the
name Edward Duncan leaps out at you. You married her
under an assumed name, didn't you, Elliott? And Yvette doesn't
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know who.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
You really are.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Oh, look, you Vett, You've got yourself a bad deal.
I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Really you married to your man named Edward Duncan.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Oh that's the name you.
Speaker 9 (10:35):
Used, Yes, but you're really Elliott Darby. What your wallet
fell out of your pocket in the cab last night,
missus Elliott Darby. I like that.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
I like that much better than missus Edward duncan.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
But the certificate, the name on the.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
Certificate isn't important. I can round up several witnesses, the
justice of the piece, the cab driver. They'll identify you
as the man I'm married. That's all that matters, Elliott Darnald.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
I see here.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
It can't be that I'm broke. Well, it just can't be.
That's all. In the long run, it it'd be much
better for both of us if we got an annulment.
I know it would, since we both want to keep
the whole thing quiet and he wants to keep.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
The whole thing quiet. I'm not ashamed of anything I did.
I've tried to be nice about this.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
But since you want to brush me up, it's not
the way to take it.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
That's the way I'm taking it, mister Darby. And don't
think the newspapers aren't going to hear about this. And
don't think my lawyer isn't going to find out just how.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
Broke you are.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Now you're in real trouble, Elliott. If this ever hits
the papers, you're ruined, and Catherine will never consider marrying you.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
After this.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Your ordered, efficient mind goes to work, and after a
time you reach your decision, the decision you feel is
the only one you can reach. You slow the engine
to an idol and go forward to a vet staring
out the sea.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Leave me alone.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I've been thinking it over.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I'm willing to give the marriage a try if you
want to.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
I bet you are.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
I have a hunch at work.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Come here, huh, Elliott. We're going to have a wonderful
life together there, I hope.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
So, Ellie, don't help me. So tired you're pushing me over, Elliot.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
There wasn't a boat in sight when you pushed her overboard.
You turn for the shore and set the engine full
speed ahead. It's over, Elliot, all over for Yvette. The
next few days you nervously search every edition of the newspapers,
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but there's no mention of her death. You feel better.
Even if the body is discovered. Now you're certain it
will be beyond identification, and you're confidence there's no way
of tracing the death to you. You'd been married to
a vet in Mexico under an assumed name, so you're
in the clear.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Elliot.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
You're sure of it. Now you can go ahead with
your marriage with Catherine, a quick marriage on her terms.
Then at the wedding. The shock of seeing Yvette there
in the church was more than you could stand, wasn't it, Elliott?
And you fainted. Now as you return to consciousness, a
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doctor bends over you. You sit up with a start
and quickly look for Yvette's face. The seat where you
saw is empty. Your head clears, and you're sure now
it was only a momentary hallue.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Do you feel better now, mister Derby.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Yes, I'm all right, doctor.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I'm sorry, Katherine. No, don't worry about it, Miss Peaboddy.
Just a case of nervous exhaustion.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Are you sure that's all about?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Oh? Yes, yes, After all, miss Peaboddy, you must remember
marriage as a nerve wrecking experience for a man.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
How do you feel, Elia?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Are you well enough to go on with the window,
of course, Darling, I'm ready and eager for the wedding.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Coming May first.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
It's just one week away, friends. Yes, first of May
is opening day for the big ten thousand dollars Signal
gasoline contest with two hundred valuable awards. Imagine you behind
the wheel of first prize, a Buick Super in the
Dashing You Riviera Modelswike is a convertible safe as a closed.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Car, Coming May first. Wonderful Wonderful prizes.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Six Packard Bell television sets with latest fight black picture Tube,
both table models, and Packard Bell's unique telecaster consoles that
roll at mere fingertip touched to most convenient viewing angles.
Then there's o'keithan Merritt's finest gas range with vanishing shelf
and grillovator broiler. Also ten vacuum cleaners and fifty pop
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up toasters. Buy Westinghouse and you can be sure if
it's Westinghouse. Yes, there are two hundred really worthwhile awards
in the big Signal.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Contest coming May first.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Best of all, in this Signal contest, you don't have
to buy anything. There are no box tops to send in,
no tickets to save, so be sure to keep tune
to the Whistler for more details about the big exciting
ten thousand dollars signal gasoline contests coming May first.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
After the honeymoon, you find married life rather pleasant, don't you, Elliott. Yes,
you learn to accept Catherine's domination, laugh off the occasional
digs about it from your friends at the club. What
pleases you most is your new job. As manager of
the Peabody Department store. You like to run things with
precision and efficiency. Yes, and everything is humming along smoothly
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until one afternoon, several weeks after your marriage, your secretary
informs you there's a visitor in your.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Outer office, a Missus Duncan to see you.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Sir, miss Evans, you know I don't accept outside appointments
in the afternoon unless I say, who'd you say.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Missus Duncan, Missus Edward Duncan's.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Can't be Miss Evans. I don't want to see anyone.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
You tell us that Missus Duncan wait, you can't go in? Hello, Dolly,
Well here I am returned with the spray.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
How did you get back? It wasn't a shift or
a sail in sight.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
One thing you didn't notice there was a boy floating
two hundred yards away.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Oh boy.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
I hung on to it for two hours before a
fishing boat picked me up.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I suppose you've got me just where you want me. Eh,
what do you think?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
What are you going to.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Do besides ruined your name and marriage?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (17:28):
I could have your throne in jail for bigamy and
attempted murder.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
These matters might be a little more difficult to prove
than your imagine.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Evette, Not when I know where I can locate a
few fishermen, the bartender, and the man who married us.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
All right, how much do you want?
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Twenty five?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Twenty five? I don't have that kind of money.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
You married millions, darling? Or did you forget I was
at your wedding?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Unfortunately, Catherine makes a careful distinction between her husband and
her bankers.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
With you around, I don't blame her, but you'll get
it for me, mon't you? Elliott? How that I'm afraid
is your problem? I get the money or the satisfaction
of seeing you thrown into.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Jail if you listen to REASONA.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I'm sure we can work something out.
Speaker 9 (18:09):
Make it good.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
I'll give you a position here at the store.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
It'll be money coming in, just like an annuity.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
A job, the best in the store.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I'll make your buyer Women's ready to.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Wear a buyer. Oh you know, I think I like that.
How much does it pay?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
One hundred a week?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Make it two?
Speaker 5 (18:29):
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Fifty a look, you bet you're care fifty a week?
All right?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Then it's settled. You can put me on the payroll
as of right now.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
Hubby, Dear, it was a way out, wasn't it, Elliott,
A way to buy off events.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
The girl you thought you'd murdered after your marriage tour
in Mexico. Now you're going to be very careful to
conceal your new employee from your wife, Katherine. Catherine is
always rather finicky about checking into new people at the store,
particularly those in important positions. And so you bury Yvette's
name in the company books and no one pays any
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attention to it, and then one afternoon Catherine decides to
make a routine inspection of the store.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
You're doing a very good job, Ellio. At those new
window displays are in excellency.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Well, thank you, my dear.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
By the way, Elliott, I.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Was speaking with Missus Cunningham on the second floor a
while ago.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Missus, oh, women's ready to wear? Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
She tells me that one of our new buyers sent
us fifty suits that are just not sailable.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Not to our.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Clientell a new buyer, Yes, and missus Edward Duncan, who
is she? What's her background? And why didn't you tell.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Me you'd hire Well, I'm sure I mentioned it, Catherine,
I'm sure you did not.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
I must have slipped my mind. Then come along there.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
We'd better step lively if we're going to get to
that color television demonstration.
Speaker 9 (19:56):
Joby, missus, joby?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
What oh, Miss Evans?
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Yes, what is it?
Speaker 7 (19:59):
Miss SSUs Cunningham wanted me to tell you. She's waiting
for you in the office. Missus Duncan is with her.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Thank you, Catherine. What's this all about?
Speaker 6 (20:07):
When I've arranged a little meeting, Elliot, you run along
to the demonstration. I want to have a little talk
with this Missus Duncan.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Well, Elliott, and I finally met your other wife. That
was quite a session we had in Missus Cunningham's office. Yes,
talk about third degree. That wife of yours is an expert.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Well that's that she fired you.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
That's right. What are you going to do about it?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
What can I do?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Nothing?
Speaker 7 (20:40):
I want twenty five thousand dollars, Elliott, How.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Do you expect me to get it?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I told you I don't care.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
You can tell your wife the truth. Maybe she thinks
you're worth your weight and goal. But if I don't
hear from you by tomorrow, I'm going to the police.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You spend a nervous, sleepless night. You Elliott eliminating plan
after plan, until one key idea keeps repeating itself to you.
Accidental death. Yes, it has to be something the police
will consider a cut and dried case of accidental death
not worth any serious investigation. Finally you work out a
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detailed and fool proof plan, and the next day, Saturday,
you phony Vet from your office.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
You'll have the money.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yes, you meet me at the beach Cafe tomorrow night
at eight o'clock. It's about fifteen miles out of town
on the Coast Highway, left hand side of the road.
And you can't miss, all.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
Right, Ellie. And I don't see why you can't bring
the money here.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
To my approach please, event I don't want to take
me chance of Catherine. Fine, you are.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Frightened to desert, aren't you? All right? Tomorrow night, Beach Cafe,
eight o'clock.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Sunday.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
It's a beautiful day for a cruise.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Isn't it, Elliot? And that after noon you board the
Adventurer and set out to see you carefully follow the
coast for fifteen miles anchor and row ashore in the digny.
A few minutes before eight you're standing in the shadows
not far from the beach cafe, waiting patiently for Yvett
to drive up. The money you borrowed from the office
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safe is tucked away in your inside coat pocket. Time
is important, isn't it, Elliott? And you're worried, And finally
you see your car drive up, and if the headlights
pick you up out of the shadows, you wave.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
To her, well, what are you hiding out here for?
Speaker 5 (22:34):
I'd rather not be seen if you don't mind.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
All right, get in. You brought the money?
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Yes, here it is you can count it.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
I don't have to. I know where I can always
find you.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Well what do you plan to do with yourself now
that you've made a small fortune?
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Oh, take a nice vacation. Then I think, how shed
my past divorce? One?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Edward?
Speaker 7 (23:03):
Duncan? You won't mind that with you? Edwards?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Right on time? What is the tray?
Speaker 5 (23:14):
So?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
What? So this?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Your fist catches around the point of the jaw and
she slumps down in the seat. Quickly you shove her
out of the way and slide in behind the wheel.
You turn off the highway into a side road and
drive until you come to an unguarded railroad crossing and
stop the car on the tracks. You push you that
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back into the driver's seat, and then grab the envelope
with the twenty five thousand dollars in it and start
running down the road. When you're sure you won't be seen,
you stop and turn and watch the train round the
curve and bear down on the stall car.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Goodbye, Vet. This time you won't be coming back.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Prizes, prizes, prizes, so many prizes. I could use this
whole program just to describe the wonderful things you can
win in signals thrilling ten thousand dollars contests coming lay
first second prize, for instance, is an APEX Complete Automatic
laundry with three work saving units, APEX Automatic Washer, APEX
Automatic Bryer, APEX Sit Down Ironer. Then there's a Frigid
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Air Deluxe refrigerator with new human Air cold wall cooling,
Frigid Air home freezer, Frigid Air Electric range with the
biggest oven of any household range. Five solid gold case
wristwatches by hell Roast with seventeen duel movement. Five makeup
cases from Halliburton's famous line of featherweight aluminum luggage filled
with exquisite cosmetics by Anatole Robins of Hollywood, ten Packard
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Bell radios, and three O'Keefe and Merit gas ranges. These
and dozens of other valuable awards mean you simply can't
afford to miss the Signal Gasoline contest coming May first,
so be sure to listen to the Whistler and next
Sunday for complete details and suggestions to help you win
one of the two hundred valuable prizes in Signals Big
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ten thousand dollars contests coming May first.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It's over, isn't it. Elliot Events out of the way
now for good and you're safe. You ro back to
the Adventurer, take a leisurely cruise, and the following morning,
as you always do on Monday mornings, you dock at
presly eight o'clock. Now you've only to drive back to
the store, replace the twenty five thousand dollars in the safe,
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and no one will ever know you. Hurry off the
boat and head for the parking lot. And as you do,
you see a police car parked nearby. A police captain
steps out of it as he sees you, and he
walks forward.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Why yes, I'm Captain Cannon. Your wife told us you'd
be out here what's the matter. One of your employees
was killed in a train crossing accident last night, a
woman named Vette Duncan.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Oh terrible.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Your wife told us you had hired missus Duncan might
be able to give us some information on it.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Well, I'll help in any way I can.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Of course, we'd like to check the personnel records at
the store too. The record is her application blank. For
one thing, we have to notify her husband or parent.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Oh well, I.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Think you'll have better luck reaching her parents. She told
me her husband had deserted it some time ago. He
seems to have disappeared. Really well, thanks, that'll save us
in trouble. Uh captain of this accident? Where did it happen?
About a mile out of Crescent Cove. Her car was
stalled in the train tracks, killed instantly, I suppose. Yeah,
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oh well that's your car. Yeah. Hey, do you mind
if i'd read with the store with you? Mister Derby,
you can tell me what you know about Missus Duncan.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
I'm away, of course, I don't mind. It's just a mobile.
Unlock head.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
He can't seem to open the door. These are my keys.
My wife's probably mind. Here's some mind if I see
those keys.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Mister Derby. Oh no, thanks.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
The identification tag here shows license number eight y five
three six one. So what that's the license number of
the car a Vet Duncan was killed in. We've been
looking for these keys, Debby, ever since we discovered that
the ignition was turned off and the keys were missing
from a Vet Duncan's wrecked car.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
No.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
I guess it's almost second nature to turn the motor
off and slip the keys in your pocket when you
stop aker, isn't it, mister Abbey.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil
program The Whistler, and don't forget. If you'd like to
win a new Buick Apex automatic laundry packard, bell, television set,
frigid air refrigerator, electric range, or home freezer, be sure
to listen to The Whistler next Sunday for complete details
about the big ten thousand dollars Signal gasoline contest coming May.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
First Coming, Lay First Coming.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Featuring in Tonight's story were Bill Forman, Hans Conried, Mary
Jane Croft, and Mary Lansing. The Whistler was produced and
directed by George w Allen, with story by Meyer de
Lenski music by Wilbur Hatch, and was transmitted to our
troops overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. The Whistler
is entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on the Whistler
are also fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance to
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persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Remember, at this
same time next Sunday, another strange tale by the Whistler,
Marvin Miller, speaking for the Signal Oil Company is the CBS,
the Columbia Broadcasting System
And now stay tuned for the program that has rated
tops in popularity for a longer period of time than
any other West Coast program in radio history, The Signal
Oil Program, The Whistler Signal, the famous Go Farther Gasoline
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invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
For I walk by night.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of
men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes,
I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's strange
story returned with the spray.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It was a quiet wedding in a small church in
San Diego, but every one who counted considered it the
most important social event of the seas. Elliott Darby, the
last surviving member of one of the city's oldest families,
was being united with his second cousin, Katherine Peabody. You
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stand at the altar, Elliott, immaculate in your striped trousers
and morning coat, facing the isle that Catherine will walk
to become your bribe. Inside, you feel none of the
nervousness attributed to bridegroom, only deep satisfaction with the turns
of fortune. You let your eyes roam over your wedding gifts,
most of them family friends, and suddenly, seated only a
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few feet away from you, you see her, her face
looking up at you with a mocking smile.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
No, it can't be.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And then you feel your knees buckling.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Come on to get a buncher.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
How could she be there, Elliot, her eyes mocking you,
smiling at your shock, reveling in it. It takes you back,
doesn't it, Elliott? Just a few weeks ago, really at
a meeting with your lawyer when he gave you the verdict.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
That's about the size of an Elliot, you're broke. Not
very pleasant, but well, there it is. I didn't dream
it was that bad. Well, you still have clear title
on your cabin cruiser.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Bring in.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
No, I won't sell the Adventurer. Dad bought that for
me when I was graduated from college. All of us
have been in love with that.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Both some to you. I don't know what to.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Do exactly from where I said, Elliott, there are only
two things you can do. What's that? Either find some
suitable work or marry quickly and wisely.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Well, Elliott works out of the question, and that leaves
only to marry quickly and wisely. It's obvious then that
you think of Catherine. Obvious too that her father, Thomas Peabody,
managed their money far better than you have.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
The Derbies.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
So you turned to Katherine arrange dinner with her in
her home a few evenings later.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Catherine, this lobsterrous SuperM You've.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Been very complimentary this evening, my dress, my wine, now
my lobster.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
I just can't help it. But You're flattery always.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Makes me suspicious.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
It should You have every reason to believe I'm after
your money.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Yes, I'm afraid I do, and.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Let's face it, it's partly true. But that's not the
whole story. Care No, there's no point in pretending I'm
hopelessly in love with you.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I know very well you're not.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
But I'm not.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Looking for that in a woman. I want someone I
can be fond of and comfortable with, a stable person.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
That's more or less my view.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
In that case, I ohkas, why don't we get married?
I should like to very much.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Don't kiss me yet, Elliott. I'd like to say something
for it. I learned very early in life that I'm
not an attractive woman.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Cat really, don't let me finish.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
The one thing I can always depend on is my wealth,
and I intend to keep complete control of it even
after I'm married.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
In other words, you're saying you don't trust.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Me, you know any other males.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I suppose you plan to give me a small sum
for cigarette money every week.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
I'm going to appoint your manager of the Peabody Department
store at a good sellary. It's for all your other faults, elliot.
You have a very good mind, special talent for order
and detail, a man of habits. And let's see, it's
it's Wednesday evening. That means billiards at your club promptly
at eight thirty.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
And I dare say you still take your boat the
Adventurer on an afternoon cause every Sunday.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yes I do, religiously, You're a wonder care You really
do know me, don't you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Later, when you leave her, you go to your club,
but only for a while. Then you get in your car,
drive around, and the more you think about it, the
madder you get. If you marry Catherine, you'll become another
of her possessions, her errand boys. You have to think, Elliot.
You stop at a bar on the outskirts of town,
and you do think and drink for a long time.
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You ignore the talkative bartender, You ignore everything.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Are you really as far away as you look?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Hell no, No, not really.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
That's good. Come on, let's talk. People call me that.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
People are lucky. My name is Sir Edward Edward Duncan.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Ed.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Now, first we'll talk about you, and we'll talk about me.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Oh no, you have to start off first.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
There's nothing much to tell about me, just a small
town girl looking for a job from friends, nice friends.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I think you found a nice friend. I think so good.
You sold on this bar. Now, particularly, let's get out
of here. A lot of other places. We'll do them all.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Sound like fun, sounds wonderful, John.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And that's all you remember, Elliott. Until the bright midday
sun await you. It's quite a shock to find yourself
sprawled on the deck of your cruiser, the adventurer, tied
to the dock. You shade your eyes with the sun,
look about you and try to remember what happened, how
you got here. With effort, you get up stumble to
the rail and squint out at the dock, and then
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you see her, and suddenly you remember Yvette.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
Hey, wake up, fight me aboard.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Of course, of course, Well you don't look so bad.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
I guess the driver took pretty good care of you,
after all, driver, taxi driver. He could carry you.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Oh, I'm sorry I was so much troubley. How about
a cruise, a short one this time.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Fine, that's all you have time for?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
The sea air might clear your head. Elie, you untie
the mooring line, start the engine and guide the adventurer
effortlessly out of the harbor toward the sea. No other
craft in sight. It's a beautiful day for a crew,
but you see very little beauty.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Sorry, I gave you a bad time last night. I
didn't mean to get out of hands.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
Oh that's all right.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
You'll have lots of time to make up for it.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yes, of course you you don't remember, do you taxi driving?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
No? I'm no.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
I mean you don't remember that we got married.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Do you marriage?
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Oh? No?
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Yes, I have the marriage certificate here if you care
to look at it, darling.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You stare at the marriage certificate.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Evet holds out to you.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So that's what happened, Elliot. You and e Vet were
married last night and you don't remember, do you, But
she proceeds to fill in the details. You were married
at three o'clock in the morning a small town over
the border. Then on the way back the taxi e
Vet hailed after she made you park the car because
you couldn't drive. The driver who took her back to
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her hotel brought you to the Adventurer. Now you really
have something to think about. You followed part of your
lawyer's advice. You've married quickly, Ellie, But how wisely? Your
eyes wander over the marriage certificate again, and suddenly the
name Edward Duncan leaps out at you. You married her
under an assumed name, didn't you, Elliott? And Yvette doesn't
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know who.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
You really are.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Oh, look, you Vett, You've got yourself a bad deal.
I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Really you married to your man named Edward Duncan.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Oh that's the name you.
Speaker 9 (10:35):
Used, Yes, but you're really Elliott Darby. What your wallet
fell out of your pocket in the cab last night,
missus Elliott Darby. I like that.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
I like that much better than missus Edward duncan.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
But the certificate, the name on the.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
Certificate isn't important. I can round up several witnesses, the
justice of the piece, the cab driver. They'll identify you
as the man I'm married. That's all that matters, Elliott Darnald.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
I see here.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
It can't be that I'm broke. Well, it just can't be.
That's all. In the long run, it it'd be much
better for both of us if we got an annulment.
I know it would, since we both want to keep
the whole thing quiet and he wants to keep.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
The whole thing quiet. I'm not ashamed of anything I did.
I've tried to be nice about this.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
But since you want to brush me up, it's not
the way to take it.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
That's the way I'm taking it, mister Darby. And don't
think the newspapers aren't going to hear about this. And
don't think my lawyer isn't going to find out just how.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
Broke you are.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Now you're in real trouble, Elliott. If this ever hits
the papers, you're ruined, and Catherine will never consider marrying you.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
After this.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Your ordered, efficient mind goes to work, and after a
time you reach your decision, the decision you feel is
the only one you can reach. You slow the engine
to an idol and go forward to a vet staring
out the sea.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Leave me alone.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I've been thinking it over.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I'm willing to give the marriage a try if you
want to.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
I bet you are.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
I have a hunch at work.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Come here, huh, Elliott. We're going to have a wonderful
life together there, I hope.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
So, Ellie, don't help me. So tired you're pushing me over, Elliot.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
There wasn't a boat in sight when you pushed her overboard.
You turn for the shore and set the engine full
speed ahead. It's over, Elliot, all over for Yvette. The
next few days you nervously search every edition of the newspapers,
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but there's no mention of her death. You feel better.
Even if the body is discovered. Now you're certain it
will be beyond identification, and you're confidence there's no way
of tracing the death to you. You'd been married to
a vet in Mexico under an assumed name, so you're
in the clear.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Elliot.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
You're sure of it. Now you can go ahead with
your marriage with Catherine, a quick marriage on her terms.
Then at the wedding. The shock of seeing Yvette there
in the church was more than you could stand, wasn't it, Elliott?
And you fainted. Now as you return to consciousness, a
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doctor bends over you. You sit up with a start
and quickly look for Yvette's face. The seat where you
saw is empty. Your head clears, and you're sure now
it was only a momentary hallue.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Do you feel better now, mister Derby.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Yes, I'm all right, doctor.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I'm sorry, Katherine. No, don't worry about it, Miss Peaboddy.
Just a case of nervous exhaustion.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Are you sure that's all about?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Oh? Yes, yes, After all, miss Peaboddy, you must remember
marriage as a nerve wrecking experience for a man.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
How do you feel, Elia?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Are you well enough to go on with the window,
of course, Darling, I'm ready and eager for the wedding.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Coming May first.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
It's just one week away, friends. Yes, first of May
is opening day for the big ten thousand dollars Signal
gasoline contest with two hundred valuable awards. Imagine you behind
the wheel of first prize, a Buick Super in the
Dashing You Riviera Modelswike is a convertible safe as a closed.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Car, Coming May first. Wonderful Wonderful prizes.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Six Packard Bell television sets with latest fight black picture Tube,
both table models, and Packard Bell's unique telecaster consoles that
roll at mere fingertip touched to most convenient viewing angles.
Then there's o'keithan Merritt's finest gas range with vanishing shelf
and grillovator broiler. Also ten vacuum cleaners and fifty pop
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up toasters. Buy Westinghouse and you can be sure if
it's Westinghouse. Yes, there are two hundred really worthwhile awards
in the big Signal.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Contest coming May first.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Best of all, in this Signal contest, you don't have
to buy anything. There are no box tops to send in,
no tickets to save, so be sure to keep tune
to the Whistler for more details about the big exciting
ten thousand dollars signal gasoline contests coming May first.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
After the honeymoon, you find married life rather pleasant, don't you, Elliott. Yes,
you learn to accept Catherine's domination, laugh off the occasional
digs about it from your friends at the club. What
pleases you most is your new job. As manager of
the Peabody Department store. You like to run things with
precision and efficiency. Yes, and everything is humming along smoothly
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until one afternoon, several weeks after your marriage, your secretary
informs you there's a visitor in your.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Outer office, a Missus Duncan to see you.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Sir, miss Evans, you know I don't accept outside appointments
in the afternoon unless I say, who'd you say.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Missus Duncan, Missus Edward Duncan's.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Can't be Miss Evans. I don't want to see anyone.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
You tell us that Missus Duncan wait, you can't go in? Hello, Dolly,
Well here I am returned with the spray.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
How did you get back? It wasn't a shift or
a sail in sight.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
One thing you didn't notice there was a boy floating
two hundred yards away.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Oh boy.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
I hung on to it for two hours before a
fishing boat picked me up.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I suppose you've got me just where you want me. Eh,
what do you think?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
What are you going to.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Do besides ruined your name and marriage?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (17:28):
I could have your throne in jail for bigamy and
attempted murder.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
These matters might be a little more difficult to prove
than your imagine.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Evette, Not when I know where I can locate a
few fishermen, the bartender, and the man who married us.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
All right, how much do you want?
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Twenty five?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Twenty five? I don't have that kind of money.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
You married millions, darling? Or did you forget I was
at your wedding?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Unfortunately, Catherine makes a careful distinction between her husband and
her bankers.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
With you around, I don't blame her, but you'll get
it for me, mon't you? Elliott? How that I'm afraid
is your problem? I get the money or the satisfaction
of seeing you thrown into.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Jail if you listen to REASONA.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I'm sure we can work something out.
Speaker 9 (18:09):
Make it good.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
I'll give you a position here at the store.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
It'll be money coming in, just like an annuity.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
A job, the best in the store.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I'll make your buyer Women's ready to.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Wear a buyer. Oh you know, I think I like that.
How much does it pay?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
One hundred a week?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Make it two?
Speaker 5 (18:29):
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Fifty a look, you bet you're care fifty a week?
All right?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Then it's settled. You can put me on the payroll
as of right now.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
Hubby, Dear, it was a way out, wasn't it, Elliott,
A way to buy off events.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
The girl you thought you'd murdered after your marriage tour
in Mexico. Now you're going to be very careful to
conceal your new employee from your wife, Katherine. Catherine is
always rather finicky about checking into new people at the store,
particularly those in important positions. And so you bury Yvette's
name in the company books and no one pays any
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attention to it, and then one afternoon Catherine decides to
make a routine inspection of the store.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
You're doing a very good job, Ellio. At those new
window displays are in excellency.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Well, thank you, my dear.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
By the way, Elliott, I.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Was speaking with Missus Cunningham on the second floor a
while ago.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Missus, oh, women's ready to wear? Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
She tells me that one of our new buyers sent
us fifty suits that are just not sailable.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Not to our.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Clientell a new buyer, Yes, and missus Edward Duncan, who
is she? What's her background? And why didn't you tell.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Me you'd hire Well, I'm sure I mentioned it, Catherine,
I'm sure you did not.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
I must have slipped my mind. Then come along there.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
We'd better step lively if we're going to get to
that color television demonstration.
Speaker 9 (19:56):
Joby, missus, joby?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
What oh, Miss Evans?
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Yes, what is it?
Speaker 7 (19:59):
Miss SSUs Cunningham wanted me to tell you. She's waiting
for you in the office. Missus Duncan is with her.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Thank you, Catherine. What's this all about?
Speaker 6 (20:07):
When I've arranged a little meeting, Elliot, you run along
to the demonstration. I want to have a little talk
with this Missus Duncan.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Well, Elliott, and I finally met your other wife. That
was quite a session we had in Missus Cunningham's office. Yes,
talk about third degree. That wife of yours is an expert.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Well that's that she fired you.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
That's right. What are you going to do about it?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
What can I do?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Nothing?
Speaker 7 (20:40):
I want twenty five thousand dollars, Elliott, How.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Do you expect me to get it?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I told you I don't care.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
You can tell your wife the truth. Maybe she thinks
you're worth your weight and goal. But if I don't
hear from you by tomorrow, I'm going to the police.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You spend a nervous, sleepless night. You Elliott eliminating plan
after plan, until one key idea keeps repeating itself to you.
Accidental death. Yes, it has to be something the police
will consider a cut and dried case of accidental death
not worth any serious investigation. Finally you work out a
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detailed and fool proof plan, and the next day, Saturday,
you phony Vet from your office.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
You'll have the money.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yes, you meet me at the beach Cafe tomorrow night
at eight o'clock. It's about fifteen miles out of town
on the Coast Highway, left hand side of the road.
And you can't miss, all.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
Right, Ellie. And I don't see why you can't bring
the money here.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
To my approach please, event I don't want to take
me chance of Catherine. Fine, you are.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Frightened to desert, aren't you? All right? Tomorrow night, Beach Cafe,
eight o'clock.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Sunday.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
It's a beautiful day for a cruise.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Isn't it, Elliot? And that after noon you board the
Adventurer and set out to see you carefully follow the
coast for fifteen miles anchor and row ashore in the digny.
A few minutes before eight you're standing in the shadows
not far from the beach cafe, waiting patiently for Yvett
to drive up. The money you borrowed from the office
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safe is tucked away in your inside coat pocket. Time
is important, isn't it, Elliott? And you're worried, And finally
you see your car drive up, and if the headlights
pick you up out of the shadows, you wave.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
To her, well, what are you hiding out here for?
Speaker 5 (22:34):
I'd rather not be seen if you don't mind.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
All right, get in. You brought the money?
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Yes, here it is you can count it.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
I don't have to. I know where I can always
find you.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Well what do you plan to do with yourself now
that you've made a small fortune?
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Oh, take a nice vacation. Then I think, how shed
my past divorce? One?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Edward?
Speaker 7 (23:03):
Duncan? You won't mind that with you? Edwards?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Right on time? What is the tray?
Speaker 5 (23:14):
So?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
What? So this?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Your fist catches around the point of the jaw and
she slumps down in the seat. Quickly you shove her
out of the way and slide in behind the wheel.
You turn off the highway into a side road and
drive until you come to an unguarded railroad crossing and
stop the car on the tracks. You push you that
(23:42):
back into the driver's seat, and then grab the envelope
with the twenty five thousand dollars in it and start
running down the road. When you're sure you won't be seen,
you stop and turn and watch the train round the
curve and bear down on the stall car.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Goodbye, Vet. This time you won't be coming back.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Prizes, prizes, prizes, so many prizes. I could use this
whole program just to describe the wonderful things you can
win in signals thrilling ten thousand dollars contests coming lay
first second prize, for instance, is an APEX Complete Automatic
laundry with three work saving units, APEX Automatic Washer, APEX
Automatic Bryer, APEX Sit Down Ironer. Then there's a Frigid
(24:49):
Air Deluxe refrigerator with new human Air cold wall cooling,
Frigid Air home freezer, Frigid Air Electric range with the
biggest oven of any household range. Five solid gold case
wristwatches by hell Roast with seventeen duel movement. Five makeup
cases from Halliburton's famous line of featherweight aluminum luggage filled
with exquisite cosmetics by Anatole Robins of Hollywood, ten Packard
(25:13):
Bell radios, and three O'Keefe and Merit gas ranges. These
and dozens of other valuable awards mean you simply can't
afford to miss the Signal Gasoline contest coming May first,
so be sure to listen to the Whistler and next
Sunday for complete details and suggestions to help you win
one of the two hundred valuable prizes in Signals Big
(25:36):
ten thousand dollars contests coming May first.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It's over, isn't it. Elliot Events out of the way
now for good and you're safe. You ro back to
the Adventurer, take a leisurely cruise, and the following morning,
as you always do on Monday mornings, you dock at
presly eight o'clock. Now you've only to drive back to
the store, replace the twenty five thousand dollars in the safe,
(26:07):
and no one will ever know you. Hurry off the
boat and head for the parking lot. And as you do,
you see a police car parked nearby. A police captain
steps out of it as he sees you, and he
walks forward.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Why yes, I'm Captain Cannon. Your wife told us you'd
be out here what's the matter. One of your employees
was killed in a train crossing accident last night, a
woman named Vette Duncan.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Oh terrible.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Your wife told us you had hired missus Duncan might
be able to give us some information on it.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Well, I'll help in any way I can.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Of course, we'd like to check the personnel records at
the store too. The record is her application blank. For
one thing, we have to notify her husband or parent.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Oh well, I.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Think you'll have better luck reaching her parents. She told
me her husband had deserted it some time ago. He
seems to have disappeared. Really well, thanks, that'll save us
in trouble. Uh captain of this accident? Where did it happen?
About a mile out of Crescent Cove. Her car was
stalled in the train tracks, killed instantly, I suppose. Yeah,
(27:08):
oh well that's your car. Yeah. Hey, do you mind
if i'd read with the store with you? Mister Derby,
you can tell me what you know about Missus Duncan.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
I'm away, of course, I don't mind. It's just a mobile.
Unlock head.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
He can't seem to open the door. These are my keys.
My wife's probably mind. Here's some mind if I see
those keys.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Mister Derby. Oh no, thanks.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
The identification tag here shows license number eight y five
three six one. So what that's the license number of
the car a Vet Duncan was killed in. We've been
looking for these keys, Debby, ever since we discovered that
the ignition was turned off and the keys were missing
from a Vet Duncan's wrecked car.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
No.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
I guess it's almost second nature to turn the motor
off and slip the keys in your pocket when you
stop aker, isn't it, mister Abbey.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil
program The Whistler, and don't forget. If you'd like to
win a new Buick Apex automatic laundry packard, bell, television set,
frigid air refrigerator, electric range, or home freezer, be sure
to listen to The Whistler next Sunday for complete details
about the big ten thousand dollars Signal gasoline contest coming May.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
First Coming, Lay First Coming.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Featuring in Tonight's story were Bill Forman, Hans Conried, Mary
Jane Croft, and Mary Lansing. The Whistler was produced and
directed by George w Allen, with story by Meyer de
Lenski music by Wilbur Hatch, and was transmitted to our
troops overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. The Whistler
is entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on the Whistler
are also fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance to
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persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Remember, at this
same time next Sunday, another strange tale by the Whistler,
Marvin Miller, speaking for the Signal Oil Company is the CBS,
the Columbia Broadcasting System
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