November 8, 2025 • 31 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):
And now stay tuned for the mystery program. That is
unique among our mystery program because even when you know
who is guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at
the final curtain. In the Signal Oil program, the Whistler
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signal the famous go Farther gasoline invite you to sit
back and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler. I
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am the Whistler, and I know many things. Or I
walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden in
the hearts of men and women who have stepped into
the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
They dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And now for the Signal Oral Company, the Whistler's Strange
Story Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
To the staff on duty at.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
The small hospital in an inland town one hundred miles
east of Los Angeles, Sunday night was much like any.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Other night, except that Sunday was to follow and most.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Of the staff had twenty four hours of leisure to
look forward to. The attractive girl at the reception desk
looked longly at her wristwatch, and then Glenn stops. The
sound of descending footsteps focused on attention on the stairway
crossed the lobby. A moment later, Doctor Neil Layton, one
of the interns, strolled casually to the desk.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I thought I'd come down for a little breather kind of.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Flow to night, Patty.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Is that bad for Saturday night?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
No, it's okay by me.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Oh it suits me fine.
Speaker 8 (02:27):
I got two hours sleep today at eight hours in
front of me here at this desk.
Speaker 9 (02:32):
Well, that's too bad, pat when you're on the night shift.
You'll never see your grandchildren if you keep that up.
Speaker 8 (02:38):
Oh, I couldn't sleep today. I had so many things
to do.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Yeah, Saturday is.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Good night, Patty.
Speaker 10 (02:45):
Hope you'll have a pleasant Sunday.
Speaker 11 (02:47):
Oh, thank you, Doctor Peter, same to you.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Good night, doctor, good night Neil.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, Patsy.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It's like I said again, like you needs eight hours
sleep a day.
Speaker 8 (02:56):
Did you get eight hours sleep today?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Doctor ten?
Speaker 6 (03:02):
You would?
Speaker 11 (03:04):
You know?
Speaker 8 (03:05):
You're an odd man, doctor Layton?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Odd? How do you mean?
Speaker 11 (03:11):
I mean?
Speaker 8 (03:13):
I don't know you You act like there's something bothering you,
like there's something on your mind.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
All the time.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Maybe there is.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
Well, everybody has things on their minds. But you could
still go out dance and have fun. What the other
doctors do the single ones.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
I mean too busy. I'm still an intern, you.
Speaker 11 (03:38):
Know you make being an inter and sound like a sentence. Yes,
outside lines, Yes, sir, oh here I holmemost.
Speaker 8 (03:50):
Forgot, doctor Layton. Maybe this pretty pink envelope will change.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Your viewpoint a letter. When did this come?
Speaker 11 (03:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
I just came on duty ten minutes ago. Why didn't
you open it? But doctor Layton, you handed trembling. I
believe your viewpoint has changed already.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Hasn't changed at all, It'll never change.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yes, Neil, your hands are trembling as you recognize the handwriting.
Read the return address on the envelope, the address of
lovely Cynthia Walker. She's out of your life now, isn't she, Neil. No,
She'll never be out of your life, will she? You're
just out of hers. You walk across the lobby, choose
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a chair near a light, stare into space for a moment,
the memory of that last moment with Cynthia crowding every
other thoughts from your mind.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
It isn't pleasant to recall, is it, Neil?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Unfortunate accident that cost you your reputation, your position, and
the love of Cynthia. Walker at the very beginning of
your career is an intern in an important metropolitan hospital.
You remember Cynthia's angry word that followed yes. Looking back
to that day more than a year ago, it's hard
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to believe now that a few hours could have made
so much difference in your future. And as you try
to read Cynthia's letter, the words blur in front of
your eyes.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You can think only of the man responsible for it all.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Charles Arthur Bennett, the man who lied when the truth
would have cleared you. Charles Arthur Bennett, the man who
called himself your best friend. Every time you think of
Charles Arthur Bennett, you literally see read don't you Neil.
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The sound of an ambulance wheeling into the receiving yard
below shatters your train of thought. Across the room, the
yellow light flashes on the switchboard. If you put Cynthia's
letter in your pocket, cross to the switchboard.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Is I'll make out the registration card right away.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Admitting room pant So Miss Wilson.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Is busy four twelve has had a relapse. They're taking
the emergency to the third floor. Doctor Graham wants you
to go to the third floor drug room.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
What was the accident?
Speaker 8 (06:31):
Car crash, timotactic shock patients very weak. Doctor Graham wants
you to prepare injections. It's all right to mind, sacraline.
Take them to the operating room, third floor.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
All right, I was afraid we might have one of
these before the night was over.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Get any details, No, only if there was an automobile accident.
The man is unconscious, But the ambulance driver says, his
name is Charles Bennett, a salesman.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Who did you say.
Speaker 11 (06:58):
Bennett out?
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Arthur Bennett?
Speaker 12 (07:01):
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Speaker 1 (07:27):
Just mention those two words go farther to motorists anywhere
around these specific coast states. And what do they think of?
Why signal the famous goal farther gasoline? Of course, now
it goes without saying. In order to be known as
the goal farther gasoline, signal has to give mighty good mileage.
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people forget it has other advantages too. I'm referring to
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signals good mileage. As you've heard me explain before, signal
gives that good mileage by helping your engine run so
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the gasoline that helps you go farther, Go farther, go farther. Yes,
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Neil at the shock, isn't it to realize what's happened?
For more than a year, you've hated Charles Bennett, and
now the girl at the switchboard tells you he's here
in the hospital where you are now interning the victim
of an automobile accident that you'll have to prepare the
drugs that might save his life, That might save his life.
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The thought grips you hurry up the stairs along the
hallway to the laboratory.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Your thoughts go back to that night, more than a
year ago. The circumstances were quite different.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Then, weren't they near, Because although you didn't realize it,
that night, you were at the mercy of Charles Bennett.
The night that brought you disgrace and cost you the
love of Cynthia Walker. The night which began with a
birthday party for Charles Bennett at the home of a
mutual friend. But as far as you were concerned, there
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were just the three of it. You, Charlie, your best friend,
and Cynthia.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yes, Neil, things were.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's much different then.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
It's a wonderful party. I wish I didn't have to
leave right in the middle of it.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
I do too, Cynthia. But if you must, you must,
I'll drive you home.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Oh no, Neil, I've already phn for a taxi. This
is the first time you've been off Beauty waits in
the hospital and for a while you stay here and relax.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Have fun.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Okay, but I might get into trouble.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
I trust you. You're a big boy now, or I
wouldn't have told you i'd marry you.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Have you told Charlie Bennet?
Speaker 11 (10:29):
Not yet. I'll tell him tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
I don't want to seem conceited, but telling him tonight,
I'm going to marry you.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Mike Spoily birthday party?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
It would By the way, where is Charley?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Oh he's around over there in the corner.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
I think that island completely surrounded by an ocean of
blod well.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I wouldn't think of invading that territory just to tell
him the night you were telling him for me?
Speaker 8 (10:51):
An't you here?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Sure you really have to go?
Speaker 8 (10:54):
I'm afraid so Jame's only in town for the night,
and I don't get to see my sister very often.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Text you ought to be here by now. If you're
a night off, have fun. You in turns don't get
out of that hospital often enough.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
And the champagne is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Anything you say, don reluctantly. You see Cynthia to a
cab and come back to the park. You take Cynthia's
advice too, enjoy a little champagne, make party talks with
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other friends, and you do have a good time, don't
you kneel?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You relaxed for the first time in the week.
Speaker 11 (11:36):
Oh I like to see.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
Oh, don't be so sovereignty.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Doctors never have any fun.
Speaker 13 (11:42):
Come on, Neil, I'll get have a little fun.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Come on, Martha, this one's really gonna be.
Speaker 13 (11:48):
You got an old doctack orgeous fond o everybody one
who's been nineing you all evening, going over asking a dad.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Oh you do it, Charlie, I'm nothing to move.
Speaker 14 (11:57):
Maybe a little later on.
Speaker 13 (11:59):
Anything you say, get it's hied up. You want to
cogitate about it, Pockety, It's okay by me. I'm a
little more champagne to color your dream.
Speaker 14 (12:09):
All right, Charlie, Maybe you're right. For another hour or two.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
You enjoy yourself, let yourself go, stay until most of
the crowd is left.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Finally you even convince your friend.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Charlie that it's time for him to go home too.
And in the lobby going.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
Out, Why don't you leave your car here, Charlie and
go home in style?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Like I am?
Speaker 10 (12:42):
What do you mean in style?
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Take a taxi?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
What's vy?
Speaker 13 (12:45):
I can drive, Neil, don't tell me the good doctors
and his cups from a little champagne.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
No, but I never drive when I've had anything to drink.
We don't have to drive.
Speaker 13 (12:58):
A little bit of champagne won't bother me. Look, I'll
tell you what we'd have closed each other. If you
don't want me to drive my car.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
We'll use you.
Speaker 9 (13:09):
You know, I'll be careful with your car. I can
pick my up well, I'm sure. Rather take a taxi on't.
Speaker 13 (13:18):
Any taxis around anyway.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
There's a stand about three blocks away, not at night, insides,
you'll need your car to get to the hospital in
a morning. Oh, come on, Neil, I'm okay. I'll be careful, all.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
Right, If you're sure, let's go, but take it easy now.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Once in the car, before Charlie starts the motor, you
make one more effort to talk him out of driving,
but to no avail.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You're getting a little weary of the slight argument, so
you let him drive the car, and.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
After the first few blocks you decide you have nothing
to worry about. Charlie seems to be driving satisfactorily, slightly
over the speed limit, it's true, but he seems to
have everything under control until he suddenly turns the corner shot.
That's the last you remember for a little while. When
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you open your eyes, you feel a dizziness, a dull
pain at your temper.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
And someone's talking, Come come on, are you hurt?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Heart?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (14:31):
No, no, yeah that much. I guess he's a bump
on the head. Had lamp post made quite an impression
on your card?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Though?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
What's the idea driving like that?
Speaker 9 (14:42):
Why I wasn't driving Charlie was Ah, Charlie was driving in.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Yeah, where is he?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I wouldn't know, Say you're ever on the.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Woozy side, friend, But Charlie, where's he?
Speaker 14 (14:57):
Come on?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Chill.
Speaker 9 (14:57):
That's enough about Charlie. How much have you had to
drink anyway?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Not much?
Speaker 9 (15:03):
Look here, Charlie was here, he was drying. No one
was here, charm I heard the crash around the corner.
Came straight here. No Charlie, no nobody, just.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
You, not even the little man who wasn't here. But
he couldn't have gone.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Maybe he's hurt and fell out of the car. Nobody
fell out of the car.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Nobody's around here but you. But Charlie. That's all chum.
Speaker 9 (15:24):
Come on, we got a swell place down tom where
you can sleep on it.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It's like a nightmare, isn't it, Neil. You're bewildered, confused
by what's happened. It's all a mistake, a horrible mistake,
and you're sure Charlie will show up soon and explain everything.
Then your booked at police headquarters.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Spend the rest of the night pacing back.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
And forth in the city jail.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
But finally next morning someone comes and puts up veil
for you. Outside, Cynthia is waiting.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Hello, Cynthia, good morning.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
I came as quickly as I could.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Thanks, thanks for springing me.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Come along here. I'll drive you home.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
How'd you find out I was here?
Speaker 7 (16:14):
The little stories in the morning papers mentioned your connection with.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
The hospital too, I suppose, so.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
Doctor Rogers called me about it.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
He was quite concerned.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Well he needn't have been.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
We'll get this whole thing cleared up.
Speaker 14 (16:26):
In no time, no time at all, I hope, Sonia.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
Sure, as soon as I see Charlie Bennett, Charlie, he'll
tell him what really happened.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
He was driving, the car was all his fault.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
I was just, what's the matter, Cynthia, Why are you
looking at me like that?
Speaker 7 (16:42):
I I've already talked with Charlie.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
So he told you then how it really happened?
Speaker 7 (16:49):
How could he? Charlie said, we took a cab home
from the party last night alone. Tried to get you
to do the same thing.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It leaves your stunn, doesn't it. Neel.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
You're certain there must be some mistake. But once Charlie
understands how much it means to you, he'll realize what's happened,
and to tell the truth. It's too late to prevent
the unfavorable publicity for the hospital, but at least you
could be cleared in doctor Rogers's eyes and in Cynthia.
You see Cynthia safely home, and then take a taxi
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directly to Charlie's apartment. He isn't there, but the desk
clerk recognizes you as a friend and let you in.
You settle down to wait and to think. Nearly two
hours later, a key sounds in the door.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
Neil, boy, why'd you tell me you were coming?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I would have left the key for you.
Speaker 9 (17:49):
I didn't plan on it anyway. The desk clerk let
me in. You talked to Cynthia on the phone this morning,
didn't you, Charlie don'ty? Yeah, Jill, she was worried about you, naturally,
and what did you tell her?
Speaker 10 (18:05):
Oh, that's what's worry.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Well.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I didn't mean to do it, Neil, but I had to.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
You don't to understand you want to drink?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
No, you don't mind if I to love Charlie.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
I'm trying to give you a chance to explain. Okay, okay,
there's no reason I get sore. You're lying to Cynthia wife.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I told you I had to.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
You know, as a salesman, I have to drive a
car to make a living.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Need.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
What's that got to do with it?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Only everything?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
That's all luck, Neil.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I didn't bother to mention it to anyone.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
But I was in a scrape three weeks ago.
Speaker 13 (18:37):
I got all up for hitting another car while I
was well a little tight.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I got off with a.
Speaker 13 (18:43):
Fine and a warning bad time.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Wait a minute, you mean you deliberately let me take
the rep for your accident last night?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I tell you I couldn't help it.
Speaker 9 (18:51):
You know what a spot this is put me in hospital,
has a reputation. They're pretty jealous of sure, and I've
got a job, So I I think you better put
it on that drink and get your car. Charlie, Why
because you're coming with me to explain to doncor Rogers.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Then we're going together to see Cynthia.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
What good would that do? It's all over now, you
mean you won't.
Speaker 13 (19:10):
I mean I went home in a taxi last night alone.
I told my story wants, Neil.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I don't see anything to gain by changing it.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
Now you're going to regret this, Charlie plenty.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
After you leave, it suddenly occurs to you that Charlie
has a more important reason for lying.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
His job is only part of it.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
He's always been in love with Cynthia too, and despite
your long friendship, apparently believes that anything's.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Fair in love and war. It's as simple as that,
isn't it, Neil. And with you out of the way,
he's sure he'll.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Have a clear field and Cynthia after all this, What
about Cynthia, Neil? You'll have to be sure more of Cynthia,
don't you.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Half an hour later, Neil, I.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Just can't understand.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
You don't believe me, do you?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
And you do believe Charlie.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Why would he lie about a thing right?
Speaker 10 (20:11):
This?
Speaker 9 (20:12):
Because he didn't want to lose his job, and because
with me out of the way, he thinks he could
marry you.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Oh that sic, I'd known Charlie for years. He wouldn't
do a thing like that, Neil.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
He's tied to your best friend.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Yeah, he's proved that hasn't been Neil.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Aren't you forgetting that Charlie wasn't found in the wreck,
that you were you all alone? Your story is too
far fetched. The police don't believe it.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Charlie says it couldn't have.
Speaker 11 (20:40):
Been that way.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
And you, Cynthia, what do you say?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Meil, what can I say? Do you think I want
to believe this?
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Doctor Rogers in the Foundation?
Speaker 7 (20:53):
What did they say?
Speaker 9 (20:54):
Naturally? I resigned from the hospital this morning. I couldn't
do anything else. I don't blame them for what they think,
any of them.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
But you, Cynthia, I thought, Ah, never mind. I guess
there's no use in going over it all again.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
You're not going why not?
Speaker 9 (21:16):
I don't seem to be getting anywhere.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
That's gonna happen with your career?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Me?
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Will you do you think you'll be able to entern
anywhere else?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
I think so. I'm just as qualified as I ever was.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
My previous record was.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Good, and I've learned a great deal about human nature.
I'm sorry this has been too much for you, Cynthia.
You wouldn't consider marrying a man you didn't believe, would you.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
I wanted to believe me more than I ever wanted
to believe anything.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Well, maybe you will something, or maybe you'll learn the truth.
Speaker 14 (21:51):
When you do, let me know.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
You'll be able to find me.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yes, it all happened more than a year ago, didn't it, Neil?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Then you cut off all contacts with your friends in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
You've often wondered if Cynthia ever married Charlie.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
And every time you've wondered, your hatred taught him has
grown deeper. You've even thought of killing him, haven't you.
And now tonight, more than a year later, in a
small out of the way hospital, fate places the life
of Charles Bennett squarely in your hands. The switchboard operator
has told you he's in the operating room, unconscious, seriously
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injured in an auto accident, and you've been assigned to
prepare the medication which will spell life or death for
it just a little too.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Much or not quite enough. It's almost too easy, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
You're sure that if anything goes wrong, not the slightest
suspicion will be attached to you. You smile as you
enter the drug room and find another intern there.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
What's the emergency lighting?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Correct you? Assisting?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
No?
Speaker 5 (23:10):
No, just preparing the seretmen and sacrament shouts. Must have
been a pretty bad accident, m fraid?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
So did you ever stop.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
To think of the power in these drugs films? Just
the right amount means almost certain recovery, a little too
much for too little oblivion? Do you always give this
philosophical when you come to the drug room. No, I
guess this case made me think about it more than usual.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I know the guy friend you said it? What a friend?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Huh? Kind of an unusual situation, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Isn't it?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Though?
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Almost ironic?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Did you know that in nineteen twenty five, the average
car was scrapped when it was only six and a
half years old and had gone less than twenty eight
thousand miles. For as today, the average car lasts fourteen
years and is driven over one hundred twenty thousand miles.
Much of the credit for this longer life naturally goes
to automotive engineers for improved construction, but much credit also
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must go to lubrication experts for more scientific, more conscientious lubrication,
such as cars now receive at signal service stations. I
call signal lubrication scientific because there's never any guesswork involved
in locating the many hidden lubrication points on your car,
or in deciding the proper lubricant to use. Instead, signal
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dealers follow signals lubrication guide in which the maker if
your car curly shows every lubrication point and clearly specifies
which of signals scientifically engineered oils and greases each point
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Speaker 2 (25:48):
Well, Neil, the die is cast, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You've done your sterile masking gown, prepared the injections, carried them.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
To the operating room, where you.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Placed them on the instrument tray without even a glance
at them. Mask she covered patience, you know doctor Graham's
nod of dismissal, and quietly leave the operating room where
the patient's chance for light depends on the drugs you've prepared.
You never dreamed you'd have such a perfect opportunity with
Charlie Bennett.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Did you kneel? After removing your mask and gown?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
You returned to the hallway light, a cigarette stand, staring
out a window. You remember the disgrace Charlie brought upon
you and your shattered hopes, the happiness you might have
had with Cynthia. His utter selfishness, he decided to finish
reading Cynthia's letter.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
No, after a year, I realized how hasty I was
in my judgment.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Suddenly, your heart beats faster as you realize she still
miss Cynthia Walker. You can almost hear the words of
the melody of her voice haunts your memory.
Speaker 15 (27:00):
But you were more so in your actions, your sudden
abrupt leaving, not letting me know where you were. I
know now how wrong I was to doubt you, But
even when my doubts were deepest, I loved you. You
told me once, a woman loves in spite of man's weakness,
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not because of his strength, remember Nea.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Both.
Speaker 15 (27:31):
So it was and is with me. I haven't changed,
and I can't believe that you have. Cynthia.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
You turn away, stare out the window.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Suddenly you're horrified that you, a doctor, have allowed your
hatred for Charles Bennett to bring you to the point
it did.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Finally, the door of.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
The operating room opens, the still forms wheels silently passed you.
You continue to stare out the window, and you toss
away your cigarette light. Another wait for doctor Graham to
emerge from the operating room. As he leaves the operating
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room and it is a hallway, you walk slowly toward him.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
How the patients, Doctor, patient's gonna be all right?
Speaker 10 (28:22):
Glad you were around? Sereptomen's a godsend?
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
May I have a cigarette? Lady?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Sure? Doctor.
Speaker 10 (28:34):
I wish these new drugs had been available when I
first started practice. Matter of fact, I wish I were
young like you, just beginning. Yeah, you'll be a great
doctor one day, Neil Well, I, yep, you're honest.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Sincere.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
You could no more evade your duty than commit murder.
N I guess I couldn't. I almost made a terrible
mistake a little while ago, a mistake that could have
been fatal to your patient.
Speaker 14 (29:04):
MM.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
But you didn't, did you?
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (29:07):
You will make many mistakes me ever, of any kind.
Medicine is where it's in your heart.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Yes, I guess it is.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
I'd like to talk to Charles Bennett a few minutes, doctor.
Speaker 10 (29:22):
Going here. He's lying down on the couch in my office.
Bennett wasn't seriously and you just knocked out temporarily. He
was driving the car.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
But but you just operated.
Speaker 10 (29:33):
Well, that wasn't mister Bennett. I operated on the young
lady who was with him.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Eh.
Speaker 10 (29:37):
It seems they were on their way to see someone
here at the hospital. You'll be okay too, as fit
as ever in a week or two. A young lady, yes,
her name was Walker. Uh uh, Cynthia Walker.
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To the staff on duty at.
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The small hospital in an inland town one hundred miles
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Speaker 3 (01:46):
Other night, except that Sunday was to follow and most.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Of the staff had twenty four hours of leisure to
look forward to. The attractive girl at the reception desk
looked longly at her wristwatch, and then Glenn stops. The
sound of descending footsteps focused on attention on the stairway
crossed the lobby. A moment later, Doctor Neil Layton, one
of the interns, strolled casually to the desk.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I thought I'd come down for a little breather kind of.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Flow to night, Patty.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Is that bad for Saturday night?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
No, it's okay by me.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Oh it suits me fine.
Speaker 8 (02:27):
I got two hours sleep today at eight hours in
front of me here at this desk.
Speaker 9 (02:32):
Well, that's too bad, pat when you're on the night shift.
You'll never see your grandchildren if you keep that up.
Speaker 8 (02:38):
Oh, I couldn't sleep today. I had so many things
to do.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Yeah, Saturday is.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Good night, Patty.
Speaker 10 (02:45):
Hope you'll have a pleasant Sunday.
Speaker 11 (02:47):
Oh, thank you, Doctor Peter, same to you.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Good night, doctor, good night Neil.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, Patsy.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It's like I said again, like you needs eight hours
sleep a day.
Speaker 8 (02:56):
Did you get eight hours sleep today?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Doctor ten?
Speaker 6 (03:02):
You would?
Speaker 11 (03:04):
You know?
Speaker 8 (03:05):
You're an odd man, doctor Layton?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Odd? How do you mean?
Speaker 11 (03:11):
I mean?
Speaker 8 (03:13):
I don't know you You act like there's something bothering you,
like there's something on your mind.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
All the time.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Maybe there is.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
Well, everybody has things on their minds. But you could
still go out dance and have fun. What the other
doctors do the single ones.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
I mean too busy. I'm still an intern, you.
Speaker 11 (03:38):
Know you make being an inter and sound like a sentence. Yes,
outside lines, Yes, sir, oh here I holmemost.
Speaker 8 (03:50):
Forgot, doctor Layton. Maybe this pretty pink envelope will change.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Your viewpoint a letter. When did this come?
Speaker 11 (03:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
I just came on duty ten minutes ago. Why didn't
you open it? But doctor Layton, you handed trembling. I
believe your viewpoint has changed already.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Hasn't changed at all, It'll never change.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yes, Neil, your hands are trembling as you recognize the handwriting.
Read the return address on the envelope, the address of
lovely Cynthia Walker. She's out of your life now, isn't she, Neil. No,
She'll never be out of your life, will she? You're
just out of hers. You walk across the lobby, choose
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a chair near a light, stare into space for a moment,
the memory of that last moment with Cynthia crowding every
other thoughts from your mind.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
It isn't pleasant to recall, is it, Neil?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Unfortunate accident that cost you your reputation, your position, and
the love of Cynthia. Walker at the very beginning of
your career is an intern in an important metropolitan hospital.
You remember Cynthia's angry word that followed yes. Looking back
to that day more than a year ago, it's hard
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to believe now that a few hours could have made
so much difference in your future. And as you try
to read Cynthia's letter, the words blur in front of
your eyes.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You can think only of the man responsible for it all.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Charles Arthur Bennett, the man who lied when the truth
would have cleared you. Charles Arthur Bennett, the man who
called himself your best friend. Every time you think of
Charles Arthur Bennett, you literally see read don't you Neil.
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The sound of an ambulance wheeling into the receiving yard
below shatters your train of thought. Across the room, the
yellow light flashes on the switchboard. If you put Cynthia's
letter in your pocket, cross to the switchboard.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Is I'll make out the registration card right away.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Admitting room pant So Miss Wilson.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Is busy four twelve has had a relapse. They're taking
the emergency to the third floor. Doctor Graham wants you
to go to the third floor drug room.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
What was the accident?
Speaker 8 (06:31):
Car crash, timotactic shock patients very weak. Doctor Graham wants
you to prepare injections. It's all right to mind, sacraline.
Take them to the operating room, third floor.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
All right, I was afraid we might have one of
these before the night was over.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Get any details, No, only if there was an automobile accident.
The man is unconscious, But the ambulance driver says, his
name is Charles Bennett, a salesman.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Who did you say.
Speaker 11 (06:58):
Bennett out?
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Arthur Bennett?
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Neil at the shock, isn't it to realize what's happened?
For more than a year, you've hated Charles Bennett, and
now the girl at the switchboard tells you he's here
in the hospital where you are now interning the victim
of an automobile accident that you'll have to prepare the
drugs that might save his life, That might save his life.
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The thought grips you hurry up the stairs along the
hallway to the laboratory.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Your thoughts go back to that night, more than a
year ago. The circumstances were quite different.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Then, weren't they near, Because although you didn't realize it,
that night, you were at the mercy of Charles Bennett.
The night that brought you disgrace and cost you the
love of Cynthia Walker. The night which began with a
birthday party for Charles Bennett at the home of a
mutual friend. But as far as you were concerned, there
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were just the three of it. You, Charlie, your best friend,
and Cynthia.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yes, Neil, things were.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's much different then.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
It's a wonderful party. I wish I didn't have to
leave right in the middle of it.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
I do too, Cynthia. But if you must, you must,
I'll drive you home.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Oh no, Neil, I've already phn for a taxi. This
is the first time you've been off Beauty waits in
the hospital and for a while you stay here and relax.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Have fun.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Okay, but I might get into trouble.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
I trust you. You're a big boy now, or I
wouldn't have told you i'd marry you.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Have you told Charlie Bennet?
Speaker 11 (10:29):
Not yet. I'll tell him tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
I don't want to seem conceited, but telling him tonight,
I'm going to marry you.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Mike Spoily birthday party?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
It would By the way, where is Charley?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Oh he's around over there in the corner.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
I think that island completely surrounded by an ocean of
blod well.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I wouldn't think of invading that territory just to tell
him the night you were telling him for me?
Speaker 8 (10:51):
An't you here?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Sure you really have to go?
Speaker 8 (10:54):
I'm afraid so Jame's only in town for the night,
and I don't get to see my sister very often.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Text you ought to be here by now. If you're
a night off, have fun. You in turns don't get
out of that hospital often enough.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
And the champagne is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Anything you say, don reluctantly. You see Cynthia to a
cab and come back to the park. You take Cynthia's
advice too, enjoy a little champagne, make party talks with
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other friends, and you do have a good time, don't
you kneel?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You relaxed for the first time in the week.
Speaker 11 (11:36):
Oh I like to see.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
Oh, don't be so sovereignty.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Doctors never have any fun.
Speaker 13 (11:42):
Come on, Neil, I'll get have a little fun.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Come on, Martha, this one's really gonna be.
Speaker 13 (11:48):
You got an old doctack orgeous fond o everybody one
who's been nineing you all evening, going over asking a dad.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Oh you do it, Charlie, I'm nothing to move.
Speaker 14 (11:57):
Maybe a little later on.
Speaker 13 (11:59):
Anything you say, get it's hied up. You want to
cogitate about it, Pockety, It's okay by me. I'm a
little more champagne to color your dream.
Speaker 14 (12:09):
All right, Charlie, Maybe you're right. For another hour or two.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
You enjoy yourself, let yourself go, stay until most of
the crowd is left.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Finally you even convince your friend.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Charlie that it's time for him to go home too.
And in the lobby going.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
Out, Why don't you leave your car here, Charlie and
go home in style?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Like I am?
Speaker 10 (12:42):
What do you mean in style?
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Take a taxi?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
What's vy?
Speaker 13 (12:45):
I can drive, Neil, don't tell me the good doctors
and his cups from a little champagne.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
No, but I never drive when I've had anything to drink.
We don't have to drive.
Speaker 13 (12:58):
A little bit of champagne won't bother me. Look, I'll
tell you what we'd have closed each other. If you
don't want me to drive my car.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
We'll use you.
Speaker 9 (13:09):
You know, I'll be careful with your car. I can
pick my up well, I'm sure. Rather take a taxi on't.
Speaker 13 (13:18):
Any taxis around anyway.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
There's a stand about three blocks away, not at night, insides,
you'll need your car to get to the hospital in
a morning. Oh, come on, Neil, I'm okay. I'll be careful, all.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
Right, If you're sure, let's go, but take it easy now.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Once in the car, before Charlie starts the motor, you
make one more effort to talk him out of driving,
but to no avail.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You're getting a little weary of the slight argument, so
you let him drive the car, and.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
After the first few blocks you decide you have nothing
to worry about. Charlie seems to be driving satisfactorily, slightly
over the speed limit, it's true, but he seems to
have everything under control until he suddenly turns the corner shot.
That's the last you remember for a little while. When
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you open your eyes, you feel a dizziness, a dull
pain at your temper.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
And someone's talking, Come come on, are you hurt?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Heart?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (14:31):
No, no, yeah that much. I guess he's a bump
on the head. Had lamp post made quite an impression
on your card?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Though?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
What's the idea driving like that?
Speaker 9 (14:42):
Why I wasn't driving Charlie was Ah, Charlie was driving in.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Yeah, where is he?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I wouldn't know, Say you're ever on the.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Woozy side, friend, But Charlie, where's he?
Speaker 14 (14:57):
Come on?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Chill.
Speaker 9 (14:57):
That's enough about Charlie. How much have you had to
drink anyway?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Not much?
Speaker 9 (15:03):
Look here, Charlie was here, he was drying. No one
was here, charm I heard the crash around the corner.
Came straight here. No Charlie, no nobody, just.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
You, not even the little man who wasn't here. But
he couldn't have gone.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Maybe he's hurt and fell out of the car. Nobody
fell out of the car.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Nobody's around here but you. But Charlie. That's all chum.
Speaker 9 (15:24):
Come on, we got a swell place down tom where
you can sleep on it.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It's like a nightmare, isn't it, Neil. You're bewildered, confused
by what's happened. It's all a mistake, a horrible mistake,
and you're sure Charlie will show up soon and explain everything.
Then your booked at police headquarters.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Spend the rest of the night pacing back.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
And forth in the city jail.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
But finally next morning someone comes and puts up veil
for you. Outside, Cynthia is waiting.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Hello, Cynthia, good morning.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
I came as quickly as I could.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Thanks, thanks for springing me.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Come along here. I'll drive you home.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
How'd you find out I was here?
Speaker 7 (16:14):
The little stories in the morning papers mentioned your connection with.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
The hospital too, I suppose, so.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
Doctor Rogers called me about it.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
He was quite concerned.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Well he needn't have been.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
We'll get this whole thing cleared up.
Speaker 14 (16:26):
In no time, no time at all, I hope, Sonia.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
Sure, as soon as I see Charlie Bennett, Charlie, he'll
tell him what really happened.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
He was driving, the car was all his fault.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
I was just, what's the matter, Cynthia, Why are you
looking at me like that?
Speaker 7 (16:42):
I I've already talked with Charlie.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
So he told you then how it really happened?
Speaker 7 (16:49):
How could he? Charlie said, we took a cab home
from the party last night alone. Tried to get you
to do the same thing.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It leaves your stunn, doesn't it. Neel.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
You're certain there must be some mistake. But once Charlie
understands how much it means to you, he'll realize what's happened,
and to tell the truth. It's too late to prevent
the unfavorable publicity for the hospital, but at least you
could be cleared in doctor Rogers's eyes and in Cynthia.
You see Cynthia safely home, and then take a taxi
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directly to Charlie's apartment. He isn't there, but the desk
clerk recognizes you as a friend and let you in.
You settle down to wait and to think. Nearly two
hours later, a key sounds in the door.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
Neil, boy, why'd you tell me you were coming?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I would have left the key for you.
Speaker 9 (17:49):
I didn't plan on it anyway. The desk clerk let
me in. You talked to Cynthia on the phone this morning,
didn't you, Charlie don'ty? Yeah, Jill, she was worried about you, naturally,
and what did you tell her?
Speaker 10 (18:05):
Oh, that's what's worry.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Well.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I didn't mean to do it, Neil, but I had to.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
You don't to understand you want to drink?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
No, you don't mind if I to love Charlie.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
I'm trying to give you a chance to explain. Okay, okay,
there's no reason I get sore. You're lying to Cynthia wife.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I told you I had to.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
You know, as a salesman, I have to drive a
car to make a living.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Need.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
What's that got to do with it?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Only everything?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
That's all luck, Neil.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I didn't bother to mention it to anyone.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
But I was in a scrape three weeks ago.
Speaker 13 (18:37):
I got all up for hitting another car while I
was well a little tight.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I got off with a.
Speaker 13 (18:43):
Fine and a warning bad time.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Wait a minute, you mean you deliberately let me take
the rep for your accident last night?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I tell you I couldn't help it.
Speaker 9 (18:51):
You know what a spot this is put me in hospital,
has a reputation. They're pretty jealous of sure, and I've
got a job, So I I think you better put
it on that drink and get your car. Charlie, Why
because you're coming with me to explain to doncor Rogers.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Then we're going together to see Cynthia.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
What good would that do? It's all over now, you
mean you won't.
Speaker 13 (19:10):
I mean I went home in a taxi last night alone.
I told my story wants, Neil.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I don't see anything to gain by changing it.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
Now you're going to regret this, Charlie plenty.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
After you leave, it suddenly occurs to you that Charlie
has a more important reason for lying.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
His job is only part of it.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
He's always been in love with Cynthia too, and despite
your long friendship, apparently believes that anything's.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Fair in love and war. It's as simple as that,
isn't it, Neil. And with you out of the way,
he's sure he'll.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Have a clear field and Cynthia after all this, What
about Cynthia, Neil? You'll have to be sure more of Cynthia,
don't you.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Half an hour later, Neil, I.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Just can't understand.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
You don't believe me, do you?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
And you do believe Charlie.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Why would he lie about a thing right?
Speaker 10 (20:11):
This?
Speaker 9 (20:12):
Because he didn't want to lose his job, and because
with me out of the way, he thinks he could
marry you.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Oh that sic, I'd known Charlie for years. He wouldn't
do a thing like that, Neil.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
He's tied to your best friend.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Yeah, he's proved that hasn't been Neil.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Aren't you forgetting that Charlie wasn't found in the wreck,
that you were you all alone? Your story is too
far fetched. The police don't believe it.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Charlie says it couldn't have.
Speaker 11 (20:40):
Been that way.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
And you, Cynthia, what do you say?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Meil, what can I say? Do you think I want
to believe this?
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Doctor Rogers in the Foundation?
Speaker 7 (20:53):
What did they say?
Speaker 9 (20:54):
Naturally? I resigned from the hospital this morning. I couldn't
do anything else. I don't blame them for what they think,
any of them.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
But you, Cynthia, I thought, Ah, never mind. I guess
there's no use in going over it all again.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
You're not going why not?
Speaker 9 (21:16):
I don't seem to be getting anywhere.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
That's gonna happen with your career?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Me?
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Will you do you think you'll be able to entern
anywhere else?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
I think so. I'm just as qualified as I ever was.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
My previous record was.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Good, and I've learned a great deal about human nature.
I'm sorry this has been too much for you, Cynthia.
You wouldn't consider marrying a man you didn't believe, would you.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
I wanted to believe me more than I ever wanted
to believe anything.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Well, maybe you will something, or maybe you'll learn the truth.
Speaker 14 (21:51):
When you do, let me know.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
You'll be able to find me.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yes, it all happened more than a year ago, didn't it, Neil?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Then you cut off all contacts with your friends in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
You've often wondered if Cynthia ever married Charlie.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
And every time you've wondered, your hatred taught him has
grown deeper. You've even thought of killing him, haven't you.
And now tonight, more than a year later, in a
small out of the way hospital, fate places the life
of Charles Bennett squarely in your hands. The switchboard operator
has told you he's in the operating room, unconscious, seriously
(22:42):
injured in an auto accident, and you've been assigned to
prepare the medication which will spell life or death for
it just a little too.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Much or not quite enough. It's almost too easy, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
You're sure that if anything goes wrong, not the slightest
suspicion will be attached to you. You smile as you
enter the drug room and find another intern there.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
What's the emergency lighting?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Correct you? Assisting?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
No?
Speaker 5 (23:10):
No, just preparing the seretmen and sacrament shouts. Must have
been a pretty bad accident, m fraid?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
So did you ever stop.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
To think of the power in these drugs films? Just
the right amount means almost certain recovery, a little too
much for too little oblivion? Do you always give this
philosophical when you come to the drug room. No, I
guess this case made me think about it more than usual.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I know the guy friend you said it? What a friend?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Huh? Kind of an unusual situation, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Isn't it?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Though?
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Almost ironic?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Did you know that in nineteen twenty five, the average
car was scrapped when it was only six and a
half years old and had gone less than twenty eight
thousand miles. For as today, the average car lasts fourteen
years and is driven over one hundred twenty thousand miles.
Much of the credit for this longer life naturally goes
to automotive engineers for improved construction, but much credit also
(24:33):
must go to lubrication experts for more scientific, more conscientious lubrication,
such as cars now receive at signal service stations. I
call signal lubrication scientific because there's never any guesswork involved
in locating the many hidden lubrication points on your car,
or in deciding the proper lubricant to use. Instead, signal
(24:56):
dealers follow signals lubrication guide in which the maker if
your car curly shows every lubrication point and clearly specifies
which of signals scientifically engineered oils and greases each point
should have for longest trouble free service. And I call
signal lubrication conscientious because signal dealers check each vital point
(25:18):
a second time, just to make double sure not a
single part has ever missed. Not only does this make
your car run better and last longer, but you feel
a lot better too, Knowing every part is protected by lubrication,
you can really depend on a signal double checked loop
job from a signal service station.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Well, Neil, the die is cast, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You've done your sterile masking gown, prepared the injections, carried them.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
To the operating room, where you.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Placed them on the instrument tray without even a glance
at them. Mask she covered patience, you know doctor Graham's
nod of dismissal, and quietly leave the operating room where
the patient's chance for light depends on the drugs you've prepared.
You never dreamed you'd have such a perfect opportunity with
Charlie Bennett.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Did you kneel? After removing your mask and gown?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
You returned to the hallway light, a cigarette stand, staring
out a window. You remember the disgrace Charlie brought upon
you and your shattered hopes, the happiness you might have
had with Cynthia. His utter selfishness, he decided to finish
reading Cynthia's letter.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
No, after a year, I realized how hasty I was
in my judgment.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Suddenly, your heart beats faster as you realize she still
miss Cynthia Walker. You can almost hear the words of
the melody of her voice haunts your memory.
Speaker 15 (27:00):
But you were more so in your actions, your sudden
abrupt leaving, not letting me know where you were. I
know now how wrong I was to doubt you, But
even when my doubts were deepest, I loved you. You
told me once, a woman loves in spite of man's weakness,
(27:26):
not because of his strength, remember Nea.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Both.
Speaker 15 (27:31):
So it was and is with me. I haven't changed,
and I can't believe that you have. Cynthia.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
You turn away, stare out the window.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Suddenly you're horrified that you, a doctor, have allowed your
hatred for Charles Bennett to bring you to the point
it did.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Finally, the door of.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
The operating room opens, the still forms wheels silently passed you.
You continue to stare out the window, and you toss
away your cigarette light. Another wait for doctor Graham to
emerge from the operating room. As he leaves the operating
(28:15):
room and it is a hallway, you walk slowly toward him.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
How the patients, Doctor, patient's gonna be all right?
Speaker 10 (28:22):
Glad you were around? Sereptomen's a godsend?
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
May I have a cigarette? Lady?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Sure? Doctor.
Speaker 10 (28:34):
I wish these new drugs had been available when I
first started practice. Matter of fact, I wish I were
young like you, just beginning. Yeah, you'll be a great
doctor one day, Neil Well, I, yep, you're honest.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Sincere.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
You could no more evade your duty than commit murder.
N I guess I couldn't. I almost made a terrible
mistake a little while ago, a mistake that could have
been fatal to your patient.
Speaker 14 (29:04):
MM.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
But you didn't, did you?
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (29:07):
You will make many mistakes me ever, of any kind.
Medicine is where it's in your heart.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Yes, I guess it is.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
I'd like to talk to Charles Bennett a few minutes, doctor.
Speaker 10 (29:22):
Going here. He's lying down on the couch in my office.
Bennett wasn't seriously and you just knocked out temporarily. He
was driving the car.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
But but you just operated.
Speaker 10 (29:33):
Well, that wasn't mister Bennett. I operated on the young
lady who was with him.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Eh.
Speaker 10 (29:37):
It seems they were on their way to see someone
here at the hospital. You'll be okay too, as fit
as ever in a week or two. A young lady, yes,
her name was Walker. Uh uh, Cynthia Walker.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
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