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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The Signal Oil program.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
The Whistler.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
That whistle is your signal for the Signal Oil program.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
The Whistler, I am the whistler, and I know many things.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
For 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 they dare not speak. Yes, friends, it's time
for the Signal Oil program. The Whistler rated tops in
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West Coast program in radio history. And Signal gasoline is
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to give you extra mile age. And signal is the
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Strange story silent partner for twenty out of every twenty
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four hours. Sounder's Junction is a sleepy little western town,
the railhead of a dairy cattle empire called the Robertson Ranch.
But twice a day at six o'clock in the morning
and evening it comes to light, its three blocks of
stores and supply houses suddenly active as the trains pull
into the station and Robertson trucks line the platform, the
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drivers and swampers hustling hundreds of gleaming cans of roberts
and milk into the waiting cars to be.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Taken south to the cities.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
In the winter time, a stranger in Saundersjunction would have
troubled distinguishing morning from evening, the same trains, the same
shouting men, the same darkness, morning and even But mat
Robertson was no stranger. As he stood on the platform
watching the train pull out, he was thinking a little
bitterly now of the day thirty years ago when his
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father passed the Robertson ranch over to him, And as
he looked down the line of trucks with Robertson painted
on their sides, he couldn't help reflecting on the changes
those thirty years had brought.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
A came horns.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That's all very har Oh, Verry, just a minute, did
you check that ship, mandan Berry?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
For sure? What's the matter of Matt.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Let's look at the sheets. I didn't see them.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Oh, I didn't think you want.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I got a rite to know how much milk I'm
shipping off my own ranch, haven't I, Berry, Come on,
give me the sheets.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Oh sure, Mad, it's was just that Wilkes.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Never mind Wilke. Oh okay, Matt, hmmm one three thousand
gallonsy ten percent over last month.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Yeah, Wilke is doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
You think so, Berry, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Sure do.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
And three thousand ein't nothing to what we're gonna do
when Santa Susanni gets gone.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I haven't decided yet whether we're gonna buy Santa Susanna ranch.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Oh, it's all bought yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
What did you hear that? Oh?
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Will change himself. Yeah, we're gonna double milk production.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
He says he want a hitt and bought it. Why,
I thought you knew well what ahead, went right ahead
and bought.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Oh Funny didn't say nothing to you. You're his partner
and everything.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I can't just forget it, Berry, I'll take it up
with him directly.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
For sure, Matt. Sure, I better get back, got to
get these sheets to the boys.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
The boss, sir. Look, Berry, before you get in that truck,
take a look up a name on the side of it.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It says Robertson Ranch. You'll see it, big clear, bright
yellow letders Robertson Ranch. Robertson Ranch. Oh man, Oh, hello, Sheriff.
I thought I might ride back the ranch with you, Madaford.
Ain't too much trouble. Oh, anything wrong, Sheriff. I want
to see young Charlie. Brack Charlie. What's the matter? What's
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he going out? Don't get worked up, Matt. It's nothing serious.
You know.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
He's been on probation after that shooting scrape up north.
He just ain't reported to me this month like.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
He's supposed to that. So oh, I see, I can't see.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
I blame him for putting that full in the hospital,
but the book says he checks with me once a month,
and that's what he better do.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well, look, Sheriff. I'll send him in tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
Tomorrow he'll be working stalk all day, if I know,
his boss, Will Kanes, will have every hand on the place,
moving cattle over to Santa Susanna place he just bought.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Oh you heard about that too, sure yesterday it was
all over town. What's the matter, man? Something wrong, you know, Sheriff.
It's nice having a partner who takes care of everything. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Will Knes is a mighty capable of it. Yeah, you
sure picked a winner when you took him in ten
years ago. Oh that's your car down there, ain't it.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, all right, Sheriff, let's go.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
It's ten miles from town to the main ranch house.
You know every bump, every rabbit on the winding dirt road, Matt.
And as you guide the car through the night, you
can see in your mind the vast stretches of pasture
land on either side, the cottonwood thickets, the old covered hills,
all part of an empire that once was yours, all
of it, twenty seven thousand acres of the best land
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in the state. As usual, there's a light on and
Wilke's office down by the gate when you arrive for
an hour after train time, morning or night. Will Kines
always works alone over his record.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And then as you reach Sheriff grabs your arms.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Sounds like Charlie, maybe we better wait.
Speaker 9 (06:24):
Please will listen to it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You listen to me. I don't give a hang what
you think or Dorothy thinks either.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
For that matter. You gotta think of her, Wilke. You're
a kid anymore, She's a grown woman with a mind
of her own.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It's her business and I'm making it my business. Get that.
Dorothy is my daughter, and if you think I'm going
to allow her to run around with a jailbird.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
Hey, wait a minute, at Wilke, I think we better
go in man talk.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I want to hear many excuse us gents. Didn't mean
to butt in. Get him out of here, sheriff, he
threatened me. I know Wilke couldn't help hearing it outside
the door.
Speaker 9 (06:52):
What's matter, Charlie, Just a little private argument, that's all.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I'll turn your chef. He's been seeing my daughter Dorothy,
and I don't intend to let it go on.
Speaker 10 (06:59):
I think we can that without the sheriff. Whether you
know it or not. Sonny, it's settled already.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Come on, Charley, I'd like to talk to you for
a minute. Excuse us, will you boys?
Speaker 11 (07:09):
I'll uh see you later about that, wilk.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Well, what do you want, Oh, I'm just another hired hand, Wilke,
trying to find out what's going on around here. I
suppose you're a little curious about Santa Susannah. You're a
wonder Wilke. Bye, Georgia seven day one. You can skip
the sarcasm, Matt. I've thought a lot about this, you
and me. I finally worked out a way of operating
with fits. It doesn't include you. I got Santa Susannah
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at a good price. I'm gonna make money with it.
There was no reason to dilly dally any further. That's
all I see. You know what's funny. I thought we
had a partner. So you can look at that any
way you want. I'm running the ranch the way I
want to run it to you. Robertson Wrench, I'll change
that too, one of these way tone double crossing skunk.
If I hadn't known you were.
Speaker 10 (07:55):
Going to wait a minute, Matt, I'm glad you mentioned
that point. You seem to have forgotten now that when
you took me in, the whole spread was two jumps
from receivership. If it hadn't been for me, there'd be
nothing left. Fourteen thousand acres. They were only fifteen hundred head,
poorest kind of stock the Lord ever made.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
We've come a long way since then, Matt, and we're
going a long ways further.
Speaker 10 (08:16):
You want to come along, that's fine. If you want
to sell out, that's better. Yet you can take it
over on your way to Santa Susannah. Tonight, Santa Susannah.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
We're moving all our dry stack over there to my
how to put on that rich pasture they'll lead you.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Is that all, Boss, Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Oh, Charlie, Hello, Matt, you you're waiting for me.
Speaker 9 (08:48):
Yeah, I want to tell you I'm a leaving leaving
what the ranch?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Oh now wait a minute, Charlie.
Speaker 11 (08:54):
I've had about all I can take.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
Mat, I don't want anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
Sneaking it hard for her too, Dorothy, Yeah, I'll be
forcing her to make a choice.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Matt.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
It's not right to make a choose between me and
her father. I'm not gonna tell anyone who's gonna climb
on the six o'clock train. Tom onw I can get
out of here. You needs I'm a criminal, a killer.
Well maybe they're right. If I if I hit a
gun a few minutes ago at her, I could kill him, Matt.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He could kill him, Matt.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Yes, he feels the same way about Will Kaines as
you do. He could kill Will Kines two and everybody
knows it, even the sheriff. After their quarrel to night
suddenly you see your special partnership agreement with Will Kaines,
the bold black letters of the survivorship clause that will
make Robertson Ranch all yours again in the event of
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his death. If Wilk were found dead, and if Charlie
Preck were picked up fleeing the scene on the six
o'clock that's how found just after the crime, then Matt
the yellow lettering on the truck Robertson Ranch would mean
again exactly what it said.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Charlie. You you say you aren't telling anyone you're leaving.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
I can't. Chef would keep me here because of my
probation still three months ago.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
What about Dorothy?
Speaker 9 (10:19):
See her tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Where is she, Charlie?
Speaker 9 (10:22):
How about North Ranch?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
You will you're gonna tell her?
Speaker 9 (10:26):
No, I'll write her a letter from New Orleans or somewhere,
that's all.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
But aren't you afraid if you see her she'll guess
something's wrong.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
No, I told her. I won't tell her anything. I
just want to see her once more, and that's all.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Charlie. I I think you're right. No use making a
big fuss about it.
Speaker 9 (10:43):
I've been thinking about it for a long time.
Speaker 11 (10:45):
On there.
Speaker 9 (10:47):
Best for her. She'll forget me in time at bill
Ashford over there's mine a nice fellow.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Tell you what, Charlie, I'm going over to Santa Susannah tonight.
I'll stay up at North Ranch and the way I'll
tell her you'll be all gee. Thanks mat uh Charlie. Yeah,
if you decided to keep this under your hat, why
did you tell me?
Speaker 9 (11:11):
Well, I wanted someone to know. I guess I just
trust you, mad I figured you wouldn't say anything.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
You're right, Charlie, I won't say a word to anyone.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
With the prologue of silent partner, the Signal Oil Company
is bringing you another strange story by the whistler.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Recognize that noise that was the.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Breaking of a perfectly good New Year's resolution made only
two weeks ago. There's one resolution, however, that I do
hope you won't break, the resolution to try just try
signal gasoline in your car, Because, seriously, friends, there are
real advantages for the driver who powers his car with signals,
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not only because signal is the famous go farther gasoline,
but also because of what makes signals good mileage possible.
I'm talking about the extra efficiency. Today's signal gasoline gets
from your motor, which naturally gives you quicker starting, faster pickup, smoother,
knock free power, the superior kind of performance you expect
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of a superior quality gasoline. Yes, it's a fact. The
same features a gasoline must have for extra driving pleasure
also give you extra mileage. The thing signal gasoline is
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the tops in gasoline quality. There are just two things
to remember. One in gasoline, it takes extra quality to
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go farther, and two signal is the famous go farther gasoline.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And now back to the whistler.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
The plan is clear now, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Mass Will Kines is going to be out of your
way for good, and young Charlie Brick will be blamed
driving over to the Santa Susannah. The whole thing run
through your mind. You can almost see it working out.
Hear the sheriff's questions after Wilke has been found dead.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
Kind of sudden the way you decided to leave town,
wasn't it, Charlie.
Speaker 9 (13:47):
Wasn't as sudden as it seemed.
Speaker 11 (13:49):
I told Matt I was going on.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I'm sorry, Charlie, but you're mistaken about that, And of
course I.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
Told you that day after my argument with Wilk that
wasn't your last argument with him, was it, Charlie?
Speaker 11 (13:58):
You went back again? No, no, I didn't, Matt tell him.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I'd like to help you, Charlie. But well, Wilp was
my partner.
Speaker 11 (14:07):
I have to think of him too.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yes, Matt, it'll be that simple.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
You're confident as you pull up in front of North
Ranch House and go inside to talk to Dorothy.
Speaker 11 (14:27):
Whoa what brings you over here this time of night?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Well, for one thing, I promised Charlie I'd deliver a
message to you, Dorothy. Oh how is he? Oh he's
all right, kind of a hot headed young fellow. But
you know, if people would just make an effort to understand.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
We're talking about dad, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Well?
Speaker 11 (14:46):
I please, Matt. He and Charlie have quarreled again, haven't you, Dorothy?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
You know I don't like to go mixing in the thing.
Speaker 11 (14:52):
Tell me, Matt.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Well, yes, they did sort of a showdown, I guess,
each calling the other names and all. They stopped when
Sheriff Walker and I came in on him.
Speaker 9 (15:04):
I see, Matt, do you mind if I ride back
with you.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Oh, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 11 (15:09):
But I want to see Charlie.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I want to talk to you. But he's going to
meet you tomorrow, Dorothy. That's what he wanted me to
tell you. He's coming over here. No, uh, not here.
He wants to meet you in town about one o'clock.
Speaker 11 (15:22):
In town, but he usually comes here.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I guess he figured it.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
To be best that way because of Dad.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I suppose.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
Well, I'll have to get someone to drive me and
maybe Bill Ashburd will do it here.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Good. I'll tell Charlie when I get back. Thanks, Matt.
Speaker 9 (15:37):
I wish Dad could be as understanding as you are.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
You have to lie, Matt, to then Dorothy into town
when Charlie will be looking for at the North Ranch.
Above all, you can't take the chance of having to meet.
Of course, you know there'll be questions later on when
Sheriff Walker is investigating, but you can always say you
lie to prevent more trouble.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
That's a good excuse, Matt.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
And all through the night, as you're giving orders to
the hands, you're thinking it through. But in the morning,
when you meet Charlie back at your place, you find
there's something else to think about.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Matt.
Speaker 9 (16:21):
I know you'll think I'm screwed changing my mind, but
I've got to tell Dorothy about leaving.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
It.
Speaker 9 (16:26):
Don't seem right to just run off.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
That won't make it any easier, Honor Charlie, I know, but.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
Why didn't sleep last night thinking about it? I feel
that I should tell her.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I think your first hunch was best.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
I didn't ask what you think I'm telling her, and
it's none of your business. Oh I'm sorry, Matt, forget it.
I I'm all mixed up.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Sure, kid, I understand, but.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
You should know. I'm gonna have one of the boys
tell her to meet me in town just before train
time tonight.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Uh. Why don't you ride over and tell her yourself, Charlie,
as long as she's expecting you.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
Oh, they got everybody over at Santa Susanna moving stock.
I'm holding down the ford here alone.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Does it matter if you're quitting?
Speaker 9 (17:07):
You know, Wilke, my work isn't done. If start wondering
about it and maybe get suspicious.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Oh sure the sheriff.
Speaker 9 (17:13):
Yeah, not that Wilke wouldn't be glad to see me leave.
The sheriff, won't. I want things to look usual right up?
Till the time I climb under that six o'clock train.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Hmmm, seems a shame. You'll just get to see Dorothy
for a minute. Hey, look, maybe I can help out.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
You don't mean you'll work for me?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Why not?
Speaker 9 (17:34):
Well, I have to being up all that hand on
your own shift.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Why that's no good?
Speaker 9 (17:37):
You want not already?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Oh well, I'm not so tired. I can't do a
friend of favorite Charlie. Yeah, but go on, get over
to North Ranch and talk to it.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
Oh gee, I shoul appreciate this man.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Forget it, forget it? Oh uh, I wouldn't take the
station wagon forming my check on.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
Oh I won't.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I'll just saddle up.
Speaker 9 (17:53):
I can be there this afternoons.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Well, I'll leave right away if you want it, Charlie,
and don't worry, I'll be taking care of things for
you here.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
And it's a deadly eight hours you spend taking Charlie's
shift at the main ranch. After that long night of
work at Santa Susanna. By two in the afternoon, there's
a weary throb at the base of your brain, an
ache in your back, a gretty heaviness in your eyelids.
But you managed to stick it out somehow, And late
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that afternoon you drag up the stairs of the ranch
house down the hall to Charlie's room. He's angrily throwing
his things into a suitcase. When you open the door.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
He say, what's wrong, chot Huh? You and Dorothy have
words or something.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
Oh hello, Matt. No, I didn't see you, but I
thought you.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
Man.
Speaker 9 (18:55):
I appreciate you taking my place and all, but I
just soon not talk about today.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Whatever you say, Charlie, I'm sorry.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
Man, you might as well know. She Uh, she wasn't
at the ranch when I got there, wasn't there, That's right.
I hadn't left a message or anything. When I got
inquiring around, one of the boys said he saw a
drive off of town with Bill Ashford.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
What but that isn't like Dorothy. I'm sure.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
I'm sure she'd been listening to her father, probably swung
over the sea and things his way. Anyway, it don't
make no difference. I'm leaving. I'm a six o'clock, just
like I said.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Well, good luck to you, Charlie.
Speaker 9 (19:36):
Thanks man, you would swell. It's one thing I won't
forget about Saunder's Junction, and listen if I can never
do anything.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
For Yeah, yeah, I know. Well I'm going up to
my room and stretch out for a little while. Charlie,
you know, I'm kind of tired after forty eight hours.
Speaker 9 (19:59):
It's a long kid, So long there, and thanks for
all you've done.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
You leave Charlie and go up to your room. You
can hear him finishing his packing, and you sit down
on the edge of the bed. Let your shoes drop
to the floor so he'll hear them. Then you lean
back to relax for a few minutes, close your eyes
and think it all through again. When you sit up
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and glance outside, it's already dark. The clock on your
bureau says five thirty. The time is just right for
what you have to do, and as usual at this hour,
the light is on and Will Kines is working alone
in his office down by the gate.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Come in, er, hello, man, what's on your man? I
suppose you know Charlie Breck left and might a known
enzime and has sent a brass band down on the tapot.
I don't think Dorothy would agree with him, and Dorothy
forget him in a week. I'm not so sure. I
didn't come in here to discuss that. Look, I'm busy
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trying to hurry through this stuff. If you don't mind,
I do mind, Wilke. I mind everything you've done. I
don't want to get on that again. I've told you
what you can do, sure, just like you told Charlie.
Only it's different with me, Wilke. I'm not running out.
I'm staying. What are you talking about? I invited you
to stay or go or do whatever you please. I
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think that last is more to my liking. Wilke. I
want to do whatever I please with the Robertson ranch,
just like in the old days. That's why I brought
this along.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Matt, Are you crazy? Don't point that thing up.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Eat, You're not going anywhere. What are you thinking of, Matt?
You'll never get away with this. There's a survivorship clause
in our partnership agreement.
Speaker 11 (21:57):
Wilke.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I think it'll make things pretty, Matthew fool No. Well, no,
I'll give you the satisfaction of knowing that you even
took care of that for me when you drove Charlie
Breck to the breaking. But he kills you and ran out.
No man, it's that clear cut, will no man. No, Hello, Hello,
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Sheriff Walker speaking that you, Matt, Yes, yes, I'm calling
from the ranch. Will Kines has been murdered. What did
you say? My partner, Will Kynes? He and Charlie Breck
had another fight. I got here too late to stop him.
Charlie Breck he shot Will. Yes, that's right, look Sheriff,
I'm going after Charlie. I'll contact you as soon as
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I catch up to it.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Oh good, but be careful, Matt and call in the
minuture locating right shre.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Twenty minutes later, you're in the station wagon, the headlights
cutting through the darkness. The clock on the deash shows
almost six as you reach the depot, just as the
train is pulling out.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Ed just a minute, Wait, don't close that window.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Huh Oh, Matt, I'll say you don't want to take
it out of here?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
No, no, no no, I'm trying to catch Charlie Breck.
Charlie for you're a little late. Man, Think you missed me?
He did leave here?
Speaker 11 (23:49):
He sure?
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Did?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I see? And I wonder if I could use the phone.
I want to call this sheriff.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
The whistler will return in just a moment with a
strange ending to tonight's story. Meantime for you, drivers who
are not already enjoying the convenience of a signal credit card.
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tell him you want to fill out an application blank
for a signal credit card. And now back to the
Whistler it was made to order, Matt, this opportunity thrust
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in your hands. When Charley suddenly decided to leave secretly
on the six o'clock southbound, He left you free to
kill wilk without fear of the consequences, to once again
look on Robertson ranch as yours.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Only a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
After your call to the Arab's office, he's there with
you at the station, and the questions you knew were
coming are on his lips.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Now wait a.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Minute, man, you say you heard Charlie and Wilke argue
in his office, ran across the yard in time to
see Charlie run off after the shot.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
That's right, char When was that, well, let's see, about
about an hour ago. I think, what were you doing
just before that? Well? I came in kind of tired
and laid down for a few minutes. When was that
this afternoon? What's the matter with that?
Speaker 8 (26:32):
Oh? Just beginning to wonder, Matt. You you really wanted
we'll share the ranch back, didn't you. That's got nothing
to do with it. Charlie's on that train. You better
send something. I already did. Dorothy's on her way now
she wants him back. Dorothy, what is all this well,
that man's a killer. Wait a minute, Matt, Charlie couldn't
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have done it. He was two hundred miles from here
when it happened.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
What do you meet, Charlie got on the six o'clock
train tonight, ask the agent tonight.
Speaker 8 (27:02):
You know, Matt, you were mighty clever, but you shouldn't
have laid down on that bed tired the way you were.
That was a big mistake.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Matt. What I don't know what your Take A look out.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
That window there, the east window. Huh See that funny
light out there. That's dawn coming up. Mattel you forgot.
This is the dead of winter and the nights are long.
It's six o'clock in the morning, now morning. Sure you
stretched out on that bed yesterday evening, passed out like
a baby and didn't open your eyes for more than
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twelve hours.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Twelve twelve hours. I slept the clock room. Yeah. Now,
let's go up to.
Speaker 12 (27:43):
My office and wrap this up all nice and form.
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four hours. Sounder's Junction is a sleepy little western town,
the railhead of a dairy cattle empire called the Robertson Ranch.
But twice a day at six o'clock in the morning
and evening it comes to light, its three blocks of
stores and supply houses suddenly active as the trains pull
into the station and Robertson trucks line the platform, the
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drivers and swampers hustling hundreds of gleaming cans of roberts
and milk into the waiting cars to be.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Taken south to the cities.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
In the winter time, a stranger in Saundersjunction would have
troubled distinguishing morning from evening, the same trains, the same
shouting men, the same darkness, morning and even But mat
Robertson was no stranger. As he stood on the platform
watching the train pull out, he was thinking a little
bitterly now of the day thirty years ago when his
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father passed the Robertson ranch over to him, And as
he looked down the line of trucks with Robertson painted
on their sides, he couldn't help reflecting on the changes
those thirty years had brought.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
A came horns.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That's all very har Oh, Verry, just a minute, did
you check that ship, mandan Berry?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
For sure? What's the matter of Matt.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Let's look at the sheets. I didn't see them.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Oh, I didn't think you want.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I got a rite to know how much milk I'm
shipping off my own ranch, haven't I, Berry, Come on,
give me the sheets.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Oh sure, Mad, it's was just that Wilkes.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Never mind Wilke. Oh okay, Matt, hmmm one three thousand
gallonsy ten percent over last month.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Yeah, Wilke is doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
You think so, Berry, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Sure do.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
And three thousand ein't nothing to what we're gonna do
when Santa Susanni gets gone.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I haven't decided yet whether we're gonna buy Santa Susanna ranch.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Oh, it's all bought yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
What did you hear that? Oh?
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Will change himself. Yeah, we're gonna double milk production.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
He says he want a hitt and bought it. Why,
I thought you knew well what ahead, went right ahead
and bought.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Oh Funny didn't say nothing to you. You're his partner
and everything.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I can't just forget it, Berry, I'll take it up
with him directly.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
For sure, Matt. Sure, I better get back, got to
get these sheets to the boys.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
The boss, sir. Look, Berry, before you get in that truck,
take a look up a name on the side of it.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It says Robertson Ranch. You'll see it, big clear, bright
yellow letders Robertson Ranch. Robertson Ranch. Oh man, Oh, hello, Sheriff.
I thought I might ride back the ranch with you, Madaford.
Ain't too much trouble. Oh, anything wrong, Sheriff. I want
to see young Charlie. Brack Charlie. What's the matter? What's
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he going out? Don't get worked up, Matt. It's nothing serious.
You know.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
He's been on probation after that shooting scrape up north.
He just ain't reported to me this month like.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
He's supposed to that. So oh, I see, I can't see.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
I blame him for putting that full in the hospital,
but the book says he checks with me once a month,
and that's what he better do.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well, look, Sheriff. I'll send him in tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
Tomorrow he'll be working stalk all day, if I know,
his boss, Will Kanes, will have every hand on the place,
moving cattle over to Santa Susanna place he just bought.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Oh you heard about that too, sure yesterday it was
all over town. What's the matter, man? Something wrong, you know, Sheriff.
It's nice having a partner who takes care of everything. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Will Knes is a mighty capable of it. Yeah, you
sure picked a winner when you took him in ten
years ago. Oh that's your car down there, ain't it.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, all right, Sheriff, let's go.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
It's ten miles from town to the main ranch house.
You know every bump, every rabbit on the winding dirt road, Matt.
And as you guide the car through the night, you
can see in your mind the vast stretches of pasture
land on either side, the cottonwood thickets, the old covered hills,
all part of an empire that once was yours, all
of it, twenty seven thousand acres of the best land
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in the state. As usual, there's a light on and
Wilke's office down by the gate when you arrive for
an hour after train time, morning or night. Will Kines
always works alone over his record.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And then as you reach Sheriff grabs your arms.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Sounds like Charlie, maybe we better wait.
Speaker 9 (06:24):
Please will listen to it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You listen to me. I don't give a hang what
you think or Dorothy thinks either.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
For that matter. You gotta think of her, Wilke. You're
a kid anymore, She's a grown woman with a mind
of her own.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It's her business and I'm making it my business. Get that.
Dorothy is my daughter, and if you think I'm going
to allow her to run around with a jailbird.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
Hey, wait a minute, at Wilke, I think we better
go in man talk.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I want to hear many excuse us gents. Didn't mean
to butt in. Get him out of here, sheriff, he
threatened me. I know Wilke couldn't help hearing it outside
the door.
Speaker 9 (06:52):
What's matter, Charlie, Just a little private argument, that's all.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I'll turn your chef. He's been seeing my daughter Dorothy,
and I don't intend to let it go on.
Speaker 10 (06:59):
I think we can that without the sheriff. Whether you
know it or not. Sonny, it's settled already.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Come on, Charley, I'd like to talk to you for
a minute. Excuse us, will you boys?
Speaker 11 (07:09):
I'll uh see you later about that, wilk.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Well, what do you want, Oh, I'm just another hired hand, Wilke,
trying to find out what's going on around here. I
suppose you're a little curious about Santa Susannah. You're a
wonder Wilke. Bye, Georgia seven day one. You can skip
the sarcasm, Matt. I've thought a lot about this, you
and me. I finally worked out a way of operating
with fits. It doesn't include you. I got Santa Susannah
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at a good price. I'm gonna make money with it.
There was no reason to dilly dally any further. That's
all I see. You know what's funny. I thought we
had a partner. So you can look at that any
way you want. I'm running the ranch the way I
want to run it to you. Robertson Wrench, I'll change
that too, one of these way tone double crossing skunk.
If I hadn't known you were.
Speaker 10 (07:55):
Going to wait a minute, Matt, I'm glad you mentioned
that point. You seem to have forgotten now that when
you took me in, the whole spread was two jumps
from receivership. If it hadn't been for me, there'd be
nothing left. Fourteen thousand acres. They were only fifteen hundred head,
poorest kind of stock the Lord ever made.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
We've come a long way since then, Matt, and we're
going a long ways further.
Speaker 10 (08:16):
You want to come along, that's fine. If you want
to sell out, that's better. Yet you can take it
over on your way to Santa Susannah. Tonight, Santa Susannah.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
We're moving all our dry stack over there to my
how to put on that rich pasture they'll lead you.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Is that all, Boss, Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Oh, Charlie, Hello, Matt, you you're waiting for me.
Speaker 9 (08:48):
Yeah, I want to tell you I'm a leaving leaving
what the ranch?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Oh now wait a minute, Charlie.
Speaker 11 (08:54):
I've had about all I can take.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
Mat, I don't want anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
Sneaking it hard for her too, Dorothy, Yeah, I'll be
forcing her to make a choice.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Matt.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
It's not right to make a choose between me and
her father. I'm not gonna tell anyone who's gonna climb
on the six o'clock train. Tom onw I can get
out of here. You needs I'm a criminal, a killer.
Well maybe they're right. If I if I hit a
gun a few minutes ago at her, I could kill him, Matt.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He could kill him, Matt.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Yes, he feels the same way about Will Kaines as
you do. He could kill Will Kines two and everybody
knows it, even the sheriff. After their quarrel to night
suddenly you see your special partnership agreement with Will Kaines,
the bold black letters of the survivorship clause that will
make Robertson Ranch all yours again in the event of
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his death. If Wilk were found dead, and if Charlie
Preck were picked up fleeing the scene on the six
o'clock that's how found just after the crime, then Matt
the yellow lettering on the truck Robertson Ranch would mean
again exactly what it said.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Charlie. You you say you aren't telling anyone you're leaving.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
I can't. Chef would keep me here because of my
probation still three months ago.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
What about Dorothy?
Speaker 9 (10:19):
See her tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Where is she, Charlie?
Speaker 9 (10:22):
How about North Ranch?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
You will you're gonna tell her?
Speaker 9 (10:26):
No, I'll write her a letter from New Orleans or somewhere,
that's all.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
But aren't you afraid if you see her she'll guess
something's wrong.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
No, I told her. I won't tell her anything. I
just want to see her once more, and that's all.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Charlie. I I think you're right. No use making a
big fuss about it.
Speaker 9 (10:43):
I've been thinking about it for a long time.
Speaker 11 (10:45):
On there.
Speaker 9 (10:47):
Best for her. She'll forget me in time at bill
Ashford over there's mine a nice fellow.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Tell you what, Charlie, I'm going over to Santa Susannah tonight.
I'll stay up at North Ranch and the way I'll
tell her you'll be all gee. Thanks mat uh Charlie. Yeah,
if you decided to keep this under your hat, why
did you tell me?
Speaker 9 (11:11):
Well, I wanted someone to know. I guess I just
trust you, mad I figured you wouldn't say anything.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
You're right, Charlie, I won't say a word to anyone.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
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And now back to the whistler.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
The plan is clear now, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Mass Will Kines is going to be out of your
way for good, and young Charlie Brick will be blamed
driving over to the Santa Susannah. The whole thing run
through your mind. You can almost see it working out.
Hear the sheriff's questions after Wilke has been found dead.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
Kind of sudden the way you decided to leave town,
wasn't it, Charlie.
Speaker 9 (13:47):
Wasn't as sudden as it seemed.
Speaker 11 (13:49):
I told Matt I was going on.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I'm sorry, Charlie, but you're mistaken about that, And of
course I.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
Told you that day after my argument with Wilk that
wasn't your last argument with him, was it, Charlie?
Speaker 11 (13:58):
You went back again? No, no, I didn't, Matt tell him.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I'd like to help you, Charlie. But well, Wilp was
my partner.
Speaker 11 (14:07):
I have to think of him too.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yes, Matt, it'll be that simple.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
You're confident as you pull up in front of North
Ranch House and go inside to talk to Dorothy.
Speaker 11 (14:27):
Whoa what brings you over here this time of night?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Well, for one thing, I promised Charlie I'd deliver a
message to you, Dorothy. Oh how is he? Oh he's
all right, kind of a hot headed young fellow. But
you know, if people would just make an effort to understand.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
We're talking about dad, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Well?
Speaker 11 (14:46):
I please, Matt. He and Charlie have quarreled again, haven't you, Dorothy?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
You know I don't like to go mixing in the thing.
Speaker 11 (14:52):
Tell me, Matt.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Well, yes, they did sort of a showdown, I guess,
each calling the other names and all. They stopped when
Sheriff Walker and I came in on him.
Speaker 9 (15:04):
I see, Matt, do you mind if I ride back
with you.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Oh, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 11 (15:09):
But I want to see Charlie.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I want to talk to you. But he's going to
meet you tomorrow, Dorothy. That's what he wanted me to
tell you. He's coming over here. No, uh, not here.
He wants to meet you in town about one o'clock.
Speaker 11 (15:22):
In town, but he usually comes here.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I guess he figured it.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
To be best that way because of Dad.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I suppose.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
Well, I'll have to get someone to drive me and
maybe Bill Ashburd will do it here.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Good. I'll tell Charlie when I get back. Thanks, Matt.
Speaker 9 (15:37):
I wish Dad could be as understanding as you are.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
You have to lie, Matt, to then Dorothy into town
when Charlie will be looking for at the North Ranch.
Above all, you can't take the chance of having to meet.
Of course, you know there'll be questions later on when
Sheriff Walker is investigating, but you can always say you
lie to prevent more trouble.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
That's a good excuse, Matt.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
And all through the night, as you're giving orders to
the hands, you're thinking it through. But in the morning,
when you meet Charlie back at your place, you find
there's something else to think about.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Matt.
Speaker 9 (16:21):
I know you'll think I'm screwed changing my mind, but
I've got to tell Dorothy about leaving.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
It.
Speaker 9 (16:26):
Don't seem right to just run off.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
That won't make it any easier, Honor Charlie, I know, but.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
Why didn't sleep last night thinking about it? I feel
that I should tell her.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I think your first hunch was best.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
I didn't ask what you think I'm telling her, and
it's none of your business. Oh I'm sorry, Matt, forget it.
I I'm all mixed up.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Sure, kid, I understand, but.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
You should know. I'm gonna have one of the boys
tell her to meet me in town just before train
time tonight.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Uh. Why don't you ride over and tell her yourself, Charlie,
as long as she's expecting you.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
Oh, they got everybody over at Santa Susanna moving stock.
I'm holding down the ford here alone.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Does it matter if you're quitting?
Speaker 9 (17:07):
You know, Wilke, my work isn't done. If start wondering
about it and maybe get suspicious.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Oh sure the sheriff.
Speaker 9 (17:13):
Yeah, not that Wilke wouldn't be glad to see me leave.
The sheriff, won't. I want things to look usual right up?
Till the time I climb under that six o'clock train.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Hmmm, seems a shame. You'll just get to see Dorothy
for a minute. Hey, look, maybe I can help out.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
You don't mean you'll work for me?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Why not?
Speaker 9 (17:34):
Well, I have to being up all that hand on
your own shift.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Why that's no good?
Speaker 9 (17:37):
You want not already?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Oh well, I'm not so tired. I can't do a
friend of favorite Charlie. Yeah, but go on, get over
to North Ranch and talk to it.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
Oh gee, I shoul appreciate this man.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Forget it, forget it? Oh uh, I wouldn't take the
station wagon forming my check on.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
Oh I won't.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I'll just saddle up.
Speaker 9 (17:53):
I can be there this afternoons.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Well, I'll leave right away if you want it, Charlie,
and don't worry, I'll be taking care of things for
you here.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
And it's a deadly eight hours you spend taking Charlie's
shift at the main ranch. After that long night of
work at Santa Susanna. By two in the afternoon, there's
a weary throb at the base of your brain, an
ache in your back, a gretty heaviness in your eyelids.
But you managed to stick it out somehow, And late
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that afternoon you drag up the stairs of the ranch
house down the hall to Charlie's room. He's angrily throwing
his things into a suitcase. When you open the door.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
He say, what's wrong, chot Huh? You and Dorothy have
words or something.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
Oh hello, Matt. No, I didn't see you, but I
thought you.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
Man.
Speaker 9 (18:55):
I appreciate you taking my place and all, but I
just soon not talk about today.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Whatever you say, Charlie, I'm sorry.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
Man, you might as well know. She Uh, she wasn't
at the ranch when I got there, wasn't there, That's right.
I hadn't left a message or anything. When I got
inquiring around, one of the boys said he saw a
drive off of town with Bill Ashford.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
What but that isn't like Dorothy. I'm sure.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
I'm sure she'd been listening to her father, probably swung
over the sea and things his way. Anyway, it don't
make no difference. I'm leaving. I'm a six o'clock, just
like I said.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Well, good luck to you, Charlie.
Speaker 9 (19:36):
Thanks man, you would swell. It's one thing I won't
forget about Saunder's Junction, and listen if I can never
do anything.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
For Yeah, yeah, I know. Well I'm going up to
my room and stretch out for a little while. Charlie,
you know, I'm kind of tired after forty eight hours.
Speaker 9 (19:59):
It's a long kid, So long there, and thanks for
all you've done.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
You leave Charlie and go up to your room. You
can hear him finishing his packing, and you sit down
on the edge of the bed. Let your shoes drop
to the floor so he'll hear them. Then you lean
back to relax for a few minutes, close your eyes
and think it all through again. When you sit up
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and glance outside, it's already dark. The clock on your
bureau says five thirty. The time is just right for
what you have to do, and as usual at this hour,
the light is on and Will Kines is working alone
in his office down by the gate.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Come in, er, hello, man, what's on your man? I
suppose you know Charlie Breck left and might a known
enzime and has sent a brass band down on the tapot.
I don't think Dorothy would agree with him, and Dorothy
forget him in a week. I'm not so sure. I
didn't come in here to discuss that. Look, I'm busy
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trying to hurry through this stuff. If you don't mind,
I do mind, Wilke. I mind everything you've done. I
don't want to get on that again. I've told you
what you can do, sure, just like you told Charlie.
Only it's different with me, Wilke. I'm not running out.
I'm staying. What are you talking about? I invited you
to stay or go or do whatever you please. I
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think that last is more to my liking. Wilke. I
want to do whatever I please with the Robertson ranch,
just like in the old days. That's why I brought
this along.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Matt, Are you crazy? Don't point that thing up.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Eat, You're not going anywhere. What are you thinking of, Matt?
You'll never get away with this. There's a survivorship clause
in our partnership agreement.
Speaker 11 (21:57):
Wilke.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I think it'll make things pretty, Matthew fool No. Well, no,
I'll give you the satisfaction of knowing that you even
took care of that for me when you drove Charlie
Breck to the breaking. But he kills you and ran out.
No man, it's that clear cut, will no man. No, Hello, Hello,
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Sheriff Walker speaking that you, Matt, Yes, yes, I'm calling
from the ranch. Will Kines has been murdered. What did
you say? My partner, Will Kynes? He and Charlie Breck
had another fight. I got here too late to stop him.
Charlie Breck he shot Will. Yes, that's right, look Sheriff,
I'm going after Charlie. I'll contact you as soon as
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I catch up to it.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Oh good, but be careful, Matt and call in the
minuture locating right shre.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Twenty minutes later, you're in the station wagon, the headlights
cutting through the darkness. The clock on the deash shows
almost six as you reach the depot, just as the
train is pulling out.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Ed just a minute, Wait, don't close that window.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Huh Oh, Matt, I'll say you don't want to take
it out of here?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
No, no, no no, I'm trying to catch Charlie Breck.
Charlie for you're a little late. Man, Think you missed me?
He did leave here?
Speaker 11 (23:49):
He sure?
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Did?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I see? And I wonder if I could use the phone.
I want to call this sheriff.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
The whistler will return in just a moment with a
strange ending to tonight's story. Meantime for you, drivers who
are not already enjoying the convenience of a signal credit card.
I'd like to mention just a few of the ways
in which this simplified, modern method of taking care of
your driving needs can add to your driving pleasure. With
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a signal credit card, instead of paying cash each time
you buy signal gasoline or lubricants, you just say charge it.
Then at the end of the month, you merely send
signal oil company a check to cover your month's purchases,
just as you now take care of your telephone, electric
or department store bills. This gives you a handy record
of what it costs to run your car and on trips.
(24:53):
It eliminates the necessity of carrying large sums of money
for driving expenses and possible emergencies. For Signal credit cards
are honored at all signal service stations, almost two thousand
of them throughout the Pacific Coast states from Canada to Mexico.
To add to this convenience to your driving, here's all
you do. Just stop by your nearest signal dealer and
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tell him you want to fill out an application blank
for a signal credit card. And now back to the
Whistler it was made to order, Matt, this opportunity thrust
(25:44):
in your hands. When Charley suddenly decided to leave secretly
on the six o'clock southbound, He left you free to
kill wilk without fear of the consequences, to once again
look on Robertson ranch as yours.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Only a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
After your call to the Arab's office, he's there with
you at the station, and the questions you knew were
coming are on his lips.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Now wait a.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Minute, man, you say you heard Charlie and Wilke argue
in his office, ran across the yard in time to
see Charlie run off after the shot.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
That's right, char When was that, well, let's see, about
about an hour ago. I think, what were you doing
just before that? Well? I came in kind of tired
and laid down for a few minutes. When was that
this afternoon? What's the matter with that?
Speaker 8 (26:32):
Oh? Just beginning to wonder, Matt. You you really wanted
we'll share the ranch back, didn't you. That's got nothing
to do with it. Charlie's on that train. You better
send something. I already did. Dorothy's on her way now
she wants him back. Dorothy, what is all this well,
that man's a killer. Wait a minute, Matt, Charlie couldn't
(26:52):
have done it. He was two hundred miles from here
when it happened.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
What do you meet, Charlie got on the six o'clock
train tonight, ask the agent tonight.
Speaker 8 (27:02):
You know, Matt, you were mighty clever, but you shouldn't
have laid down on that bed tired the way you were.
That was a big mistake.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Matt. What I don't know what your Take A look out.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
That window there, the east window. Huh See that funny
light out there. That's dawn coming up. Mattel you forgot.
This is the dead of winter and the nights are long.
It's six o'clock in the morning, now morning. Sure you
stretched out on that bed yesterday evening, passed out like
a baby and didn't open your eyes for more than
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twelve hours.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Twelve twelve hours. I slept the clock room. Yeah. Now,
let's go up to.
Speaker 12 (27:43):
My office and wrap this up all nice and form.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil program.
The whistler each Wednesday night at this same time, brought
for you by the Signal Oil Company. Marketers of Signal
gasoline and motor oil and fine quality automotive accessories. Signal
has asked me to remind you to get the most
driving pleasure. Drive its sensible speeds, be courteous, and obey
(28:30):
traffic regulations. It may save a life, possibly your own.
Featured into Night's story were Bill Bouchet and David Ellis.
The Whistler was produced by George w Allen, with story
(28:52):
by Joel Malone and Harold Swanton, and music by Wilbur Hatch,
and was transmitted to our troops overseas by the Armed
Forces Radio Service next Wednesday for a full hour of
mystery over most of these stations. Tune in a half
hour earlier enjoy the Saints as well as the Whistler.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
This is Marvin Miller speaking.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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