October 9, 2025 • 29 mins
The Whistler was a suspenseful mystery anthology that ran from 1942-1955. A character known only as the Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate and had a suspenseful and eerie tone, always ending with a twist. The Whistler was later adapted to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now stay tuned for the program that has rated
TOTS in popularity for a longer period of time than
any other West Coast program in radio history. The Signal
Oil Program.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The Whistler.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Signal, the famous go Farther Gasoline invites you to sit
back and enjoy another strange story.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
By the Whistler.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things. For
I walk by night. I know many strange tales.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Hidden in the hearts of men and women who have
stepped into the shop.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Adams.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
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,
she never would be missed.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Mona had determined that her parting from her husband, Gerald's
stamp was to be gay, and she put it civilized.
There were to be no tears to Marmona's beauty, no
tiresome recriminations. Best of all, Gerald had understood her perfectly.
He had seemed to realize at once why she preferred vincent,
why the divorce was so very necessary to her.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
And now there was.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Nothing more for Mona to do other than wait for
train time, check.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
On the few last minute details with her maid.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Oh, Lucie, did the man campaby lug it? He just
you made it clear that I wanted to arrive in
Renow the same time. I do, yes, and I phoned
for a cab. It will be right here. Your names willis.
You've been so good through all this. You don't know
what it means to find someone who's charming after so
many years.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Of so many years of what my dear gild.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Jerld, what are you doing here? I thought you'd gone
to your club.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
I came back because I have something to say to you.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
I'll watch for your cab, Madam.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Thank you, Lucille Lonna. I want you to give up
this foolish idea.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Give it up. It's absurd. Everything's settled, you agreed.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
I didn't know until today just whom I was being
divorced for.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
You've always known it was Vincent. We never made me
secret of it, but.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
I knew nothing about him. He's no good mona.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I can understand your thinking, so.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
It isn't just me. Do you realize he's been thrown
out of every decent club in San Francisco. No respectable
society will tolerate him. You think you'll be happy, married
to that.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I've never been able to understand your reverence for what
you call respectability.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Bounder, Mona, A cheat everything. It's rotten.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
In short, a juicy topic for a plumb full of
old men.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
It always comes back to their, doesn't it. You're young
and I'm old.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
It's time we've faced it, don't you think, Mona.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Believe me, if it were anyone else, I'd let you go.
No protest what this carter? For your own sake. I
beg you not to give up everything.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
For his I love Vincent and he loves me. You
can protest or not as you like.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
I could make it very disagreeable, Mona, for both of you.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Of course, you could get into all the papers too,
but I don't think you will. Where would your respectability be?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Then?
Speaker 6 (03:39):
I think I lost it, Mona when I married you.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Your cab is here, missus stan I'll be right down, Moncielan. Goodbye, jentlemen.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
One thing more, Mona, I'm going to revise our little agreement.
There will be no property settlement.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Ah. Now we come to the heart of the interview.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
If you leave here you'll get nothing more from me.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Has enough for us book?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
If it'd better be a lot. You're rapper expensive.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
I expect to be well if he marries you. Don't
worry Gerald, he will well.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
That's fair enough, fair enough, Mona, you deserve each other.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Number thirty two right.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Here, Thank you. Say goodbye to me now, Vincent. I
can't bear these prolonged farewells. Darling.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
Here's something to remember me by.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Open it to see?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Vincent would have perfectly stunning ring.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
You like it.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
It's been in the family for agent Vincent.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I do love you, sir.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Why Amy, when it's over? And I'll meet you here
at the station?
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Oh no, doubting, not at the station. I want to
look my very best when I see you.
Speaker 9 (04:49):
Can't we make where we always meet, Pietro's for lunch
one o'clock. The day you get back one you'd better
be wearing that ring.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
You'll see me flashing flocks away. There it is, Darling.
I've got to run.
Speaker 8 (05:01):
Goodbye, angel I'll be living.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
For our under Pietro's.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Darling. The goodbyes are over, aren't they, Mona, And you're
on your way alone on the train. Only the memory
of Vincent's flashing smile to comfort you, to help you
fight down any doubts, any misgivings that Gerrold tried to
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plant in your mind.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
It's going to be all right, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
MoMA?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yes, you tell yourself that over and over again.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
But in the weeks you spend at Reno, you get
few letters from Vincent, and then none at all, and
then at last you return to San Francisco, hurry to Pietro's,
where you wait again because Vincent isn't there. You're terribly
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alone until pie.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Jo kie Jo.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
What is it, madame?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Oh missus Stanton, I didn't see you come in.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Well, come back, for heaven's sakes. Where is Vincent?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
When did you get back?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Just this morning? Please? Petro? Where is he?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Mister Carter, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
He was to meet me here at one o'clock. I've
called his apartment everywhere. I can't find him. What's happened?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
I'm afraid I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
That's nonsense. You know everything, Pietro. There's something you're not
telling me.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
I'm sorry, Missus Stanton.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Now if you excuse no, I won't excuse you yet.
Your come back here. I want to talk to you.
You're getting a little shrill, darling. You better take it easy,
Blanche Frontaine, Thank goodness for a friendly face. Maybe you
will tell me what this is all about, and I
won't pretend I don't know what you mean, because I do.
What is it? What happened to Vincent? Now here? Everybody's
watching us? Come on, where are we going to my apartment?
We can talk to it now, Blanche. Please, I said
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we'd talk in my apartment, now, come on. I know
how you feel. More. No, but a lot can happen
six weeks, and well it has. I can't believe it, Blanche.
Who is this other woman?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Alice Phillips?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Alice? Do you mean Vincent has thrown me over for
that washed out society bud.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I'll admit she.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Is a pale one, but her family my dear mainline,
old god and oh so respectable ReSpectacle.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Oh this is too much.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Shouldn't surprise you. Vincent's always been a perfect sucker for
that sort of thing. But he can't. He's going to
marry me. I have his ring, Darling. What's a ring
when he can marry a Phillips? This is the top
for him, big stuff. He'll never let that go. I
think your crow to say things like that. I face fats, Mona,
and so much. June, I'll forget it, go away for
a while, pull yourself together, exit gracefully. You mean you
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can go up to my lodge if you like. You'll
be alone there, miles from everywhere, to give you time
to get hold of yourself. Vincent loves me. I've given
up everything for him, husband, money, everything. I'll find him
and talk to him. He'll say it isn't true all I, darling,
have it your way, I will. You'll see.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
It can't be said that you didn't try, can it, Mona.
Your efforts during the next few days to find Vincent
may well become legendary in the lush circles you inhabit.
You phone his apartment, his friends, all the possible night clubs,
but he's never there. You write him notes and long,
pleading letters, but they remain unanswered, and still you refuse
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to accept the obvious. Finally, one afternoon, at the cocktail hour,
you catch him at Pietro's. He's as handsome as ever,
but you're forced to see that things aren't the same now.
Vincent has changed.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
Yes, I heard you were trying to reach me, Mona,
but I really wish you wouldn't.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
It's rather awkward under the circumstances.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Vincent, what are the circumstances?
Speaker 8 (08:54):
Oh, we know each other to well to pretend ignorance.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Then it is true, Alice Phillips. Vincent, you can't do
this to me.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
Nobody's done anything, Mona. It simply happened, and.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
So I'm to be brushed off just like that.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
We should be grateful we found out before it was
too late.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Do you realize what I've lost on your account?
Speaker 8 (09:12):
Well that was your doing, Mona, not mine.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Oh you're contemptible, just honest, Vincent. You don't love her.
You couldn't you love me. It's all right, Darling. I
know these things happen sometimes, and I'm willing to forget it.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
Perhaps you haven't understood me, Mona. This isn't just a
temporary romance. I'm going to marry Alice instant, which reminds me, Darling,
I'd like to have my ring back, if you don't mind.
It's a rather good one, you know, sort of heir loom.
And I think Ali you ring indeed?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Oh, you just try and get it.
Speaker 9 (09:42):
All right, Mona, But you can get out of my
life and stay out, scamp and please, I'll have to ask.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I'll get away, Pietro.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Wouldn't you like me to call you a get away?
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I said, take a hand off of me.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Heaven say control yourself. You're making a spent how yourself?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
He says, Oh that's good, that's very good.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
And quit hounding me, or you'll force me to do
something unpleasant.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Come come, missus, rob me beast ripe.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Please, you never know you haven't cut it, not while
I live. Ho chill you first, I swear not chill you.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
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Wouldn't it add a lot to your peace of mind
to know that, no matter how hard you may drive,
no matter how high the thermometer may soar, your motor
is protected by an oil that won't break down under heat,
an oil that won't let unnecessary wear rob your car
of its pef and power and turn it into an
oil eater. Then this week is the time to change
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that reduces engine were due to lubrication fifty percent. In
addition to providing the finest of lubrication, New Signal Premium
protects your motor in four important extra ways. One controls
harmful engine deposits such as carbon gum and varnished. Two
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keeps oil rings clean and free. Three keeps hydraulic valve
lifters from sticking. Four stops acid corrosion and rust. Yet
all this extra protection of heavy duty type signal premium
is yours at no increase in price at signal stations.
So if you want to save money and your car too,
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get your motor oil change to new signal premium before
your labor day trip. Get it changed at a signal
service station.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Well, Mona, you sensed it for weeks that something was wrong,
that Vincent Carter had changed his mind about you, after
you've divorced your husband to marry him, and now meeting
him face to face, you've heard from his own lips
that he intended to marry some one else, Alice Phillips,
and your own words, angry excited words run through your
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mind to mock and torture you your threat to kill him.
Yet you've been able to do nothing, nothing at all,
except run to your friend Blanche Fontaine and pour out
your heart.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Oh, Blanchet was so humiliating, And on top of that,
to be thrown out. What am I going to do?
I've told you Mona, go away somewhere by yourself and
get over it. Go up to my lodge, darling. I'm
running over to London for a few weeks. I shan't
be using it. I've lost everything because of him. How
could he do this to me?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
He's done at every woman he's ever known. I wish
I could hurt him as he's hurt me. You can't.
It doesn't work that way with Vincent. When he's through,
he's through, And like the old song, they never would
be missed, they never with be missed. Here enough, in
case you decide to be sensible, here are my keys
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to the lodge.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
You'll be alone there.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Its miles from everywhere, and nobody has to know anything
about it. You're a very kind plant, no foe nothing.
It'll be good for you. The larder's well stopped. You'll
make up. I'll make out better right here. I'm leaving tomorrow,
so if you decide to use the lodge, go on up.
Just stay as long as you like. Glance if you
think I'm just going to leave town, quietly and speak
up to your lodge and let Vincent Carr get the
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sensible thing to do, and you should begin to use
your head. I'll use my head, but I won't use
your lodge. Suit yourself. But in case you change your mind,
I'll leave you the keys. Goodbye, Darling. I'll call you
as soon as i'm back. Have a nice trip plant.
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Oh Vincent, you fool. There's one who's going to be missed.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
It's a vicious plan, isn't it, Mona.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
But you've decided yes to disappear suddenly and without explanation.
You'll do it in such a way that Vincent Carter
will be blamed for your disappearance. You're certain that the publicity,
the suspicions in his direction will cause the ultra respectable
Alice Phillips to break off her engagement to him, And
once that happens, you're certain you can win him back,
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and you're certain your plan will work, aren't you. Only
Blanche knows that you know of the existence of the lodge,
and you've told her you weren't going to use it.
You're sure she'll be on the high Seas bound for
London and will learn nothing until her return the next day.
A phone called Vincent is your first move in working
him into your little scheme.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I don't know what possessed me, vincent I. I was
dreadful and I'm terribly sorry.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
It's all right, Mona.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Alice is a lovely girl, and I think she ought
to have the ring.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
You mean you'll give it back?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Of course, come over and have a drink with me.
Show me there are no heart feelings. I'll give it
to you.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Then, well, all right, Mona, I'll come by just for
a minute.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Done and done, darling, see you, Lucille, Yes, madam, I'll
be dining out. Lucy. You'll fetch me something to wear,
and hurry. Mister Carter's coming right away, mister character. Yes,
he just called asked me to have dinner. But you
think you should? Why not? If he wants me back,
I'm quite willing.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
But missus Stanton, how do you know that's what he wants?
Speaker 5 (15:35):
How do you know it isn't?
Speaker 7 (15:37):
What do you mean, Lucille, Well, he called here yesterday
when you were out, and oh, he said dreadful things.
He said that if you didn't quit bothering him, he
would do something drastic.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
I didn't tell you that because that was yesterday, Lucille. Oh,
don't worry. I can handle him, I hope so. But Lucille,
please don't tell anyone who I'm with, I promised Vincent.
He doesn't want it known yet.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I don't like it, Madam.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I don't like it at all. Nonsense. Come on, help
me get ready, he'll be here.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
You've been very decent, Mona.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Thanks awfully well after all, darling. When I have a ring,
I want a man to go with it. Have another drink?
Speaker 8 (16:25):
No thanks, I better run along, must you?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
I was rather hoping you'd let me take you to
dinner sort of farewell. Oh I'm afraid the divine little
place just out of town, very quiet, nobody'd know. You're
very persuasive of old times. Say we can take my car?
What do you say?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
All right?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I'd rather like to. It's all so easy, isn't it, Mona.
You go downstairs with him, make sure a doorman sees
you drive off together in your car. The dinner at
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the obscure country inn goes pleasantly, with Vincent, obviously relieved
at your show of goodwill. By the time you drop
him off at his apartment, he's forgotten the past unpleasantness
between him.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Here you are darling. Right here door, go straight to
bed now, Oh, I will, I.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Will, I'm tired of weir. It's been fun, Mona.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
TUN's just beginning, Darling for both of us.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
And now, Mona.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
The easy four hour drive to the lodge, where you
run your car out of sight behind some trees, then
settle down amid the comforting simplicity of oil lamps and
wood fires, certain that the mechanics of your scheme are
going successfully. Yes, you were last scene with Vincent, and
your disappearance is complete. The news breaks even sooner than
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you expected, and you walk down behind the clump of
trees to listen to your car radio and the news reports.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
San Francisco Police was still continuing their questioning today concerning
the sudden and unusual disappearance of missus Monas Stanton, and
they had stated emphatically that her employer had no intention
of taking a trip and expressed the possibility of foul play.
Alisa is satisfied with the explanations of one Vincent caught
her former fiancee of the missing woman.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
It's perfect, isn't it, Mona?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
And the following day the reports are even more exciting,
until finally the one thing you most wanted to hear.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
In the case of missus Monas Stanton, missing for the
past five days, socialite Alice Phillips flew Aside a barber tonight,
accompanied by her mother. Sources close to miss Phillips indicate
that she's broken her engagement to Vincent Carter, material witness
and principal suspect in the mysterious staffing disappearance, and now
for some other.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Coast news says she wouldn't stick by you, Vincent day
too respectable.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
You've won, haven't you, Mona. You tell yourself over and
over again.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
You've won.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Vincent has been humbled, Alice driven away. You can return
to him now, take him back on your own terms.
And then as you finish packing for the trip back
to the city and close your suitcase, you hear a
car approaching the lodge. Only one person knows you're here, Mona,
just one betch.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
It has to be blanched. She's bringing the police. I've
got to get out of here.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
It's all clear to you, isn't it, Mona. Blanche must
have heard of your disappearance before she embarked for London,
changed her plans and hurried back to San Francisco to investigate.
You've got to hurry and get away. Your race for
the rear jord of the cabin, and the lamp crashes
to the floor as you swing the door wide open, Mona.
But you're not stopping for anything like that now, No,
you race to the clump of trees in your car.
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Your only chance to get away without being seen as
the old river road. You noticed it while walking one day.
Now it's got to provide your escape. Your heart pounds
as you release the break. Let your car coast silently
down this back road a mile from the lodge. You
risk starting the engine. It's all right, isn't it, Mona.
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You got away. Then, exactly four hours later, you're walking
in on Vincent at his apartment.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Mullah had enough, Vincent, Darling, I could disappear again, you know.
Speaker 8 (20:50):
Come in, Come in, Mona.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Ready to listen to reason. I take it.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Hmm.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
It's close in here, Darling. Untidy too, But do not
look too dead for yourself.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
What do you mean, Mona?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
What do I mean? You asked me up, didn't you?
Speaker 8 (21:07):
You've had your fun? Why mother to come back at all?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
I want a husband, Darling, in security. I want you
security you don't have to lock the door. I shan't
run away so long as you're reasonable.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
That's right, Mona. You won't run away ever. Vincent, what
do you? You had your little joke, now I'll have mine.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Come now, darling, put it down.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
You don't deserve to live.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
I said, put the gun down, Vincent, keep away, Come on,
give it.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
To me go.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
I see you.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Can be rather painful, can't they, Vincent, Now our places
are reversed. You're the one who doesn't deserve to live.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
I was only trying to scare your Mona. I wouldn't
have killed you.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
You shouldn't have let go of the gun when I
kicked you, because I am going to kill you. Please wait,
why should I after wrecking my life and tossing me
aside as if I were a casual pickup, you were
going to kill me. I'm just turning the tables on you.
That's all.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
You stand there, Mona, terrified at what you've done, the
revolver you wrested from, Vincent, still smoking your hand. Then,
as the paralysis of shocks of science, you begin to
realize your own danger. You've killed a man, Mona, and
your feelings about him are well known it comes back
to you and your own words shouted publicly that day
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at Pietro.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
You'll never marry Heaven's And.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Now you have killed him, haven't you, MoMA? And who's
going to believe.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
That you didn't intend to? Suddenly you leaned down, quickly
pressed the gun into Vincent's hand, smooth over the evidence
of the struggle, and slip out of the apartment. Within
a half hour, you're at police headquarters telling a plausible
story to the lieutenant in charge.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
And you see, Lieutenant, I had gone up to the
lodge for a complete rest, so I hadn't even heard
a radio until a few hours ago. I happened to
turn on six o'clock news in an appearance book. Naturally
I came back at once.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I see. I'm afraid it's been a pretty serious mistake
all around.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Let let Vincent no immediately.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I'm afraid it's too late, missus. Stay. But the report
just came in. Vincent Carter shot himself not more than
a half hour ago.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Steady, if I hadn't gone away, I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
You didn't know?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
What shall I do? If only I hadn't.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Things to go home and try to get some.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Rest I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
No, I'm not going to try it though, William. It's
too bad. But you're not to blake.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Oh next weekend when you start off on your Labor
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Day trip, it'll be mighty handy to have a good
map in your car. And there's no map handier than
the three ones you'll find at signal service station. No
need to squint find where you're going on a signal map.
They're jumbo sized for quick, easy reading, and no need
to wrestle with them getting them open or folded again.
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Speaker 4 (25:01):
It's a shock, isn't it, Mona.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Your disappearing act had unexpected results. Vincent is dead now dead,
the police believed by his own hands.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
It appears that you had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Because of your story that you were in your car
at the time, driving back from the lodge to save
Vincent from the suspicion that he had done away with you,
and they can only think of you as an innocent
figure in a comedy of misinterpretation. The next day, the
police lieutenant comes to your apartment. Confidently, you answer his
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questions with your usual invented I told.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
You all I can, Lieutenant. I left the lodge drive
out of the six o'clock youth broadcast when I heard
on the new newscast that Vincent was being blamed my disappeared.
I went back to Taptain. But what difference does.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It make now, because Missus Stanton, Vincent Carter's death was
on suicide, wasn't us you mean? Vincent was murdered? Missus
Stanton the angle of the bullet cruise a shot put
with them and fired by mister Carter.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
See surely you don't suspect me.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yes, I'm afraid I do. You had the strongest motive
in the world. I've learned a great deal about you
since I last saw you, Missus Stapnon. Mister Carter broke
up your marriage then tossed you aside for another woman.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
But that was some time ago.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Sim sad at least two different people heard you threatened
to kill him, and I told you that we've got
a pretty strong case against you. Missus Stanton, a woman
answering your description was seen leaving Carter's apartment building about
the time of a murder.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Possibly so, but it couldn't have been. I I was
driving into town.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I see now, as I understand that, it's an easy
four hour drive from the lodge into town. Right, Yes,
you say you left there right after the six o'clock newscaps.
You didn't arrive at the precinct station until nearly twelve.
That's almost six hours. That leads two hours to a concert.
There's plenty of time for you to kill Carter.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Oh well, I can say that. You see, I went
to the village first, had a little lunch before driving in,
and since I didn't realize there was any rush. I
ate larger legally. Then I decided to phone nor wire
or something, but changed my mind and drove on in.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I see, don't you have to pass the lodge?
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Why? Yes?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
And I'm afraid I'm gonna have to arrest you in
the charge of murder, Missus Stephans. That's upstand because you're lying.
We couldn't have passed that lodge. The road was blocked,
the lodge was burning to the ground. Somebody was in
a big hurry to get out of that lodge. In
the rush, they knocked over an oil lamp.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Only Blanche Fontane hadn't driven up.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Miss Vontaine is still in London. That try you heard
was a couple of forest rangers. Lucky thing they were
in that neighborhood. We might have had a bad forest
buck come along. Missus Stephans. Let's go down to headquarter.
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Speaker 3 (01:26):
Mona had determined that her parting from her husband, Gerald's
stamp was to be gay, and she put it civilized.
There were to be no tears to Marmona's beauty, no
tiresome recriminations. Best of all, Gerald had understood her perfectly.
He had seemed to realize at once why she preferred vincent,
why the divorce was so very necessary to her.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
And now there was.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Nothing more for Mona to do other than wait for
train time, check.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
On the few last minute details with her maid.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Oh, Lucie, did the man campaby lug it? He just
you made it clear that I wanted to arrive in
Renow the same time. I do, yes, and I phoned
for a cab. It will be right here. Your names willis.
You've been so good through all this. You don't know
what it means to find someone who's charming after so
many years.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Of so many years of what my dear gild.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Jerld, what are you doing here? I thought you'd gone
to your club.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
I came back because I have something to say to you.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
I'll watch for your cab, Madam.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Thank you, Lucille Lonna. I want you to give up
this foolish idea.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Give it up. It's absurd. Everything's settled, you agreed.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
I didn't know until today just whom I was being
divorced for.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
You've always known it was Vincent. We never made me
secret of it, but.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
I knew nothing about him. He's no good mona.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I can understand your thinking, so.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
It isn't just me. Do you realize he's been thrown
out of every decent club in San Francisco. No respectable
society will tolerate him. You think you'll be happy, married
to that.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I've never been able to understand your reverence for what
you call respectability.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Bounder, Mona, A cheat everything. It's rotten.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
In short, a juicy topic for a plumb full of
old men.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
It always comes back to their, doesn't it. You're young
and I'm old.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
It's time we've faced it, don't you think, Mona.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Believe me, if it were anyone else, I'd let you go.
No protest what this carter? For your own sake. I
beg you not to give up everything.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
For his I love Vincent and he loves me. You
can protest or not as you like.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
I could make it very disagreeable, Mona, for both of you.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Of course, you could get into all the papers too,
but I don't think you will. Where would your respectability be?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Then?
Speaker 6 (03:39):
I think I lost it, Mona when I married you.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Your cab is here, missus stan I'll be right down, Moncielan. Goodbye, jentlemen.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
One thing more, Mona, I'm going to revise our little agreement.
There will be no property settlement.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Ah. Now we come to the heart of the interview.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
If you leave here you'll get nothing more from me.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Has enough for us book?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
If it'd better be a lot. You're rapper expensive.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
I expect to be well if he marries you. Don't
worry Gerald, he will well.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
That's fair enough, fair enough, Mona, you deserve each other.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Number thirty two right.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Here, Thank you. Say goodbye to me now, Vincent. I
can't bear these prolonged farewells. Darling.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
Here's something to remember me by.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Open it to see?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Vincent would have perfectly stunning ring.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
You like it.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
It's been in the family for agent Vincent.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I do love you, sir.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Why Amy, when it's over? And I'll meet you here
at the station?
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Oh no, doubting, not at the station. I want to
look my very best when I see you.
Speaker 9 (04:49):
Can't we make where we always meet, Pietro's for lunch
one o'clock. The day you get back one you'd better
be wearing that ring.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
You'll see me flashing flocks away. There it is, Darling.
I've got to run.
Speaker 8 (05:01):
Goodbye, angel I'll be living.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
For our under Pietro's.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Darling. The goodbyes are over, aren't they, Mona, And you're
on your way alone on the train. Only the memory
of Vincent's flashing smile to comfort you, to help you
fight down any doubts, any misgivings that Gerrold tried to
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plant in your mind.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
It's going to be all right, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
MoMA?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yes, you tell yourself that over and over again.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
But in the weeks you spend at Reno, you get
few letters from Vincent, and then none at all, and
then at last you return to San Francisco, hurry to Pietro's,
where you wait again because Vincent isn't there. You're terribly
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alone until pie.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Jo kie Jo.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
What is it, madame?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Oh missus Stanton, I didn't see you come in.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Well, come back, for heaven's sakes. Where is Vincent?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
When did you get back?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Just this morning? Please? Petro? Where is he?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Mister Carter, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
He was to meet me here at one o'clock. I've
called his apartment everywhere. I can't find him. What's happened?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
I'm afraid I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
That's nonsense. You know everything, Pietro. There's something you're not
telling me.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
I'm sorry, Missus Stanton.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Now if you excuse no, I won't excuse you yet.
Your come back here. I want to talk to you.
You're getting a little shrill, darling. You better take it easy,
Blanche Frontaine, Thank goodness for a friendly face. Maybe you
will tell me what this is all about, and I
won't pretend I don't know what you mean, because I do.
What is it? What happened to Vincent? Now here? Everybody's
watching us? Come on, where are we going to my apartment?
We can talk to it now, Blanche. Please, I said
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we'd talk in my apartment, now, come on. I know
how you feel. More. No, but a lot can happen
six weeks, and well it has. I can't believe it, Blanche.
Who is this other woman?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Alice Phillips?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Alice? Do you mean Vincent has thrown me over for
that washed out society bud.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I'll admit she.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Is a pale one, but her family my dear mainline,
old god and oh so respectable ReSpectacle.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Oh this is too much.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Shouldn't surprise you. Vincent's always been a perfect sucker for
that sort of thing. But he can't. He's going to
marry me. I have his ring, Darling. What's a ring
when he can marry a Phillips? This is the top
for him, big stuff. He'll never let that go. I
think your crow to say things like that. I face fats, Mona,
and so much. June, I'll forget it, go away for
a while, pull yourself together, exit gracefully. You mean you
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can go up to my lodge if you like. You'll
be alone there, miles from everywhere, to give you time
to get hold of yourself. Vincent loves me. I've given
up everything for him, husband, money, everything. I'll find him
and talk to him. He'll say it isn't true all I, darling,
have it your way, I will. You'll see.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
It can't be said that you didn't try, can it, Mona.
Your efforts during the next few days to find Vincent
may well become legendary in the lush circles you inhabit.
You phone his apartment, his friends, all the possible night clubs,
but he's never there. You write him notes and long,
pleading letters, but they remain unanswered, and still you refuse
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to accept the obvious. Finally, one afternoon, at the cocktail hour,
you catch him at Pietro's. He's as handsome as ever,
but you're forced to see that things aren't the same now.
Vincent has changed.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
Yes, I heard you were trying to reach me, Mona,
but I really wish you wouldn't.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
It's rather awkward under the circumstances.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Vincent, what are the circumstances?
Speaker 8 (08:54):
Oh, we know each other to well to pretend ignorance.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Then it is true, Alice Phillips. Vincent, you can't do
this to me.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
Nobody's done anything, Mona. It simply happened, and.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
So I'm to be brushed off just like that.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
We should be grateful we found out before it was
too late.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Do you realize what I've lost on your account?
Speaker 8 (09:12):
Well that was your doing, Mona, not mine.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Oh you're contemptible, just honest, Vincent. You don't love her.
You couldn't you love me. It's all right, Darling. I
know these things happen sometimes, and I'm willing to forget it.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
Perhaps you haven't understood me, Mona. This isn't just a
temporary romance. I'm going to marry Alice instant, which reminds me, Darling,
I'd like to have my ring back, if you don't mind.
It's a rather good one, you know, sort of heir loom.
And I think Ali you ring indeed?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Oh, you just try and get it.
Speaker 9 (09:42):
All right, Mona, But you can get out of my
life and stay out, scamp and please, I'll have to ask.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I'll get away, Pietro.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Wouldn't you like me to call you a get away?
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I said, take a hand off of me.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Heaven say control yourself. You're making a spent how yourself?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
He says, Oh that's good, that's very good.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
And quit hounding me, or you'll force me to do
something unpleasant.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Come come, missus, rob me beast ripe.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Please, you never know you haven't cut it, not while
I live. Ho chill you first, I swear not chill you.
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Speaker 3 (11:50):
Well, Mona, you sensed it for weeks that something was wrong,
that Vincent Carter had changed his mind about you, after
you've divorced your husband to marry him, and now meeting
him face to face, you've heard from his own lips
that he intended to marry some one else, Alice Phillips,
and your own words, angry excited words run through your
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mind to mock and torture you your threat to kill him.
Yet you've been able to do nothing, nothing at all,
except run to your friend Blanche Fontaine and pour out
your heart.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Oh, Blanchet was so humiliating, And on top of that,
to be thrown out. What am I going to do?
I've told you Mona, go away somewhere by yourself and
get over it. Go up to my lodge, darling. I'm
running over to London for a few weeks. I shan't
be using it. I've lost everything because of him. How
could he do this to me?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
He's done at every woman he's ever known. I wish
I could hurt him as he's hurt me. You can't.
It doesn't work that way with Vincent. When he's through,
he's through, And like the old song, they never would
be missed, they never with be missed. Here enough, in
case you decide to be sensible, here are my keys
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to the lodge.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
You'll be alone there.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Its miles from everywhere, and nobody has to know anything
about it. You're a very kind plant, no foe nothing.
It'll be good for you. The larder's well stopped. You'll
make up. I'll make out better right here. I'm leaving tomorrow,
so if you decide to use the lodge, go on up.
Just stay as long as you like. Glance if you
think I'm just going to leave town, quietly and speak
up to your lodge and let Vincent Carr get the
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sensible thing to do, and you should begin to use
your head. I'll use my head, but I won't use
your lodge. Suit yourself. But in case you change your mind,
I'll leave you the keys. Goodbye, Darling. I'll call you
as soon as i'm back. Have a nice trip plant.
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Oh Vincent, you fool. There's one who's going to be missed.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
It's a vicious plan, isn't it, Mona.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
But you've decided yes to disappear suddenly and without explanation.
You'll do it in such a way that Vincent Carter
will be blamed for your disappearance. You're certain that the publicity,
the suspicions in his direction will cause the ultra respectable
Alice Phillips to break off her engagement to him, And
once that happens, you're certain you can win him back,
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and you're certain your plan will work, aren't you. Only
Blanche knows that you know of the existence of the lodge,
and you've told her you weren't going to use it.
You're sure she'll be on the high Seas bound for
London and will learn nothing until her return the next day.
A phone called Vincent is your first move in working
him into your little scheme.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I don't know what possessed me, vincent I. I was
dreadful and I'm terribly sorry.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
It's all right, Mona.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Alice is a lovely girl, and I think she ought
to have the ring.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
You mean you'll give it back?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Of course, come over and have a drink with me.
Show me there are no heart feelings. I'll give it
to you.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Then, well, all right, Mona, I'll come by just for
a minute.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Done and done, darling, see you, Lucille, Yes, madam, I'll
be dining out. Lucy. You'll fetch me something to wear,
and hurry. Mister Carter's coming right away, mister character. Yes,
he just called asked me to have dinner. But you
think you should? Why not? If he wants me back,
I'm quite willing.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
But missus Stanton, how do you know that's what he wants?
Speaker 5 (15:35):
How do you know it isn't?
Speaker 7 (15:37):
What do you mean, Lucille, Well, he called here yesterday
when you were out, and oh, he said dreadful things.
He said that if you didn't quit bothering him, he
would do something drastic.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
I didn't tell you that because that was yesterday, Lucille. Oh,
don't worry. I can handle him, I hope so. But Lucille,
please don't tell anyone who I'm with, I promised Vincent.
He doesn't want it known yet.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I don't like it, Madam.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I don't like it at all. Nonsense. Come on, help
me get ready, he'll be here.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
You've been very decent, Mona.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Thanks awfully well after all, darling. When I have a ring,
I want a man to go with it. Have another drink?
Speaker 8 (16:25):
No thanks, I better run along, must you?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
I was rather hoping you'd let me take you to
dinner sort of farewell. Oh I'm afraid the divine little
place just out of town, very quiet, nobody'd know. You're
very persuasive of old times. Say we can take my car?
What do you say?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
All right?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I'd rather like to. It's all so easy, isn't it, Mona.
You go downstairs with him, make sure a doorman sees
you drive off together in your car. The dinner at
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the obscure country inn goes pleasantly, with Vincent, obviously relieved
at your show of goodwill. By the time you drop
him off at his apartment, he's forgotten the past unpleasantness
between him.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Here you are darling. Right here door, go straight to
bed now, Oh, I will, I.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Will, I'm tired of weir. It's been fun, Mona.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
TUN's just beginning, Darling for both of us.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
And now, Mona.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
The easy four hour drive to the lodge, where you
run your car out of sight behind some trees, then
settle down amid the comforting simplicity of oil lamps and
wood fires, certain that the mechanics of your scheme are
going successfully. Yes, you were last scene with Vincent, and
your disappearance is complete. The news breaks even sooner than
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you expected, and you walk down behind the clump of
trees to listen to your car radio and the news reports.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
San Francisco Police was still continuing their questioning today concerning
the sudden and unusual disappearance of missus Monas Stanton, and
they had stated emphatically that her employer had no intention
of taking a trip and expressed the possibility of foul play.
Alisa is satisfied with the explanations of one Vincent caught
her former fiancee of the missing woman.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
It's perfect, isn't it, Mona?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
And the following day the reports are even more exciting,
until finally the one thing you most wanted to hear.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
In the case of missus Monas Stanton, missing for the
past five days, socialite Alice Phillips flew Aside a barber tonight,
accompanied by her mother. Sources close to miss Phillips indicate
that she's broken her engagement to Vincent Carter, material witness
and principal suspect in the mysterious staffing disappearance, and now
for some other.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Coast news says she wouldn't stick by you, Vincent day
too respectable.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
You've won, haven't you, Mona. You tell yourself over and
over again.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
You've won.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Vincent has been humbled, Alice driven away. You can return
to him now, take him back on your own terms.
And then as you finish packing for the trip back
to the city and close your suitcase, you hear a
car approaching the lodge. Only one person knows you're here, Mona,
just one betch.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
It has to be blanched. She's bringing the police. I've
got to get out of here.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
It's all clear to you, isn't it, Mona. Blanche must
have heard of your disappearance before she embarked for London,
changed her plans and hurried back to San Francisco to investigate.
You've got to hurry and get away. Your race for
the rear jord of the cabin, and the lamp crashes
to the floor as you swing the door wide open, Mona.
But you're not stopping for anything like that now, No,
you race to the clump of trees in your car.
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Your only chance to get away without being seen as
the old river road. You noticed it while walking one day.
Now it's got to provide your escape. Your heart pounds
as you release the break. Let your car coast silently
down this back road a mile from the lodge. You
risk starting the engine. It's all right, isn't it, Mona.
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You got away. Then, exactly four hours later, you're walking
in on Vincent at his apartment.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Mullah had enough, Vincent, Darling, I could disappear again, you know.
Speaker 8 (20:50):
Come in, Come in, Mona.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Ready to listen to reason. I take it.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Hmm.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
It's close in here, Darling. Untidy too, But do not
look too dead for yourself.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
What do you mean, Mona?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
What do I mean? You asked me up, didn't you?
Speaker 8 (21:07):
You've had your fun? Why mother to come back at all?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
I want a husband, Darling, in security. I want you
security you don't have to lock the door. I shan't
run away so long as you're reasonable.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
That's right, Mona. You won't run away ever. Vincent, what
do you? You had your little joke, now I'll have mine.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Come now, darling, put it down.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
You don't deserve to live.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
I said, put the gun down, Vincent, keep away, Come on,
give it.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
To me go.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
I see you.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Can be rather painful, can't they, Vincent, Now our places
are reversed. You're the one who doesn't deserve to live.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
I was only trying to scare your Mona. I wouldn't
have killed you.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
You shouldn't have let go of the gun when I
kicked you, because I am going to kill you. Please wait,
why should I after wrecking my life and tossing me
aside as if I were a casual pickup, you were
going to kill me. I'm just turning the tables on you.
That's all.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
You stand there, Mona, terrified at what you've done, the
revolver you wrested from, Vincent, still smoking your hand. Then,
as the paralysis of shocks of science, you begin to
realize your own danger. You've killed a man, Mona, and
your feelings about him are well known it comes back
to you and your own words shouted publicly that day
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at Pietro.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
You'll never marry Heaven's And.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Now you have killed him, haven't you, MoMA? And who's
going to believe.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
That you didn't intend to? Suddenly you leaned down, quickly
pressed the gun into Vincent's hand, smooth over the evidence
of the struggle, and slip out of the apartment. Within
a half hour, you're at police headquarters telling a plausible
story to the lieutenant in charge.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
And you see, Lieutenant, I had gone up to the
lodge for a complete rest, so I hadn't even heard
a radio until a few hours ago. I happened to
turn on six o'clock news in an appearance book. Naturally
I came back at once.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I see. I'm afraid it's been a pretty serious mistake
all around.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Let let Vincent no immediately.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I'm afraid it's too late, missus. Stay. But the report
just came in. Vincent Carter shot himself not more than
a half hour ago.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Steady, if I hadn't gone away, I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
You didn't know?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
What shall I do? If only I hadn't.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Things to go home and try to get some.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Rest I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
No, I'm not going to try it though, William. It's
too bad. But you're not to blake.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Oh next weekend when you start off on your Labor
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Day trip, it'll be mighty handy to have a good
map in your car. And there's no map handier than
the three ones you'll find at signal service station. No
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Speaker 4 (25:01):
It's a shock, isn't it, Mona.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Your disappearing act had unexpected results. Vincent is dead now dead,
the police believed by his own hands.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
It appears that you had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Because of your story that you were in your car
at the time, driving back from the lodge to save
Vincent from the suspicion that he had done away with you,
and they can only think of you as an innocent
figure in a comedy of misinterpretation. The next day, the
police lieutenant comes to your apartment. Confidently, you answer his
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questions with your usual invented I told.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
You all I can, Lieutenant. I left the lodge drive
out of the six o'clock youth broadcast when I heard
on the new newscast that Vincent was being blamed my disappeared.
I went back to Taptain. But what difference does.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It make now, because Missus Stanton, Vincent Carter's death was
on suicide, wasn't us you mean? Vincent was murdered? Missus
Stanton the angle of the bullet cruise a shot put
with them and fired by mister Carter.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
See surely you don't suspect me.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yes, I'm afraid I do. You had the strongest motive
in the world. I've learned a great deal about you
since I last saw you, Missus Stapnon. Mister Carter broke
up your marriage then tossed you aside for another woman.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
But that was some time ago.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Sim sad at least two different people heard you threatened
to kill him, and I told you that we've got
a pretty strong case against you. Missus Stanton, a woman
answering your description was seen leaving Carter's apartment building about
the time of a murder.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Possibly so, but it couldn't have been. I I was
driving into town.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I see now, as I understand that, it's an easy
four hour drive from the lodge into town. Right, Yes,
you say you left there right after the six o'clock newscaps.
You didn't arrive at the precinct station until nearly twelve.
That's almost six hours. That leads two hours to a concert.
There's plenty of time for you to kill Carter.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Oh well, I can say that. You see, I went
to the village first, had a little lunch before driving in,
and since I didn't realize there was any rush. I
ate larger legally. Then I decided to phone nor wire
or something, but changed my mind and drove on in.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I see, don't you have to pass the lodge?
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Why? Yes?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
And I'm afraid I'm gonna have to arrest you in
the charge of murder, Missus Stephans. That's upstand because you're lying.
We couldn't have passed that lodge. The road was blocked,
the lodge was burning to the ground. Somebody was in
a big hurry to get out of that lodge. In
the rush, they knocked over an oil lamp.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Only Blanche Fontane hadn't driven up.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Miss Vontaine is still in London. That try you heard
was a couple of forest rangers. Lucky thing they were
in that neighborhood. We might have had a bad forest
buck come along. Missus Stephans. Let's go down to headquarter.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
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The whistler each Sunday night at the same time. Signal
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your own. Featured in Tonight's story were Bill Foreman, Alice Reinhart,
Les Tremaine, Joe Gilbert, Ted von Els, and Bill Bouchet.
The Whistler was produced and directed by George W. W Allen,
with story by William Engvic and Cleo Davis, music by
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Wilbur Hatch, and was transmitted 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
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