December 21, 2025 • 23 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 (00:16):
I am the whistler, and I know many things. Or
I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
in the hearts of men and women who.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Have stepped into the shadows.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare
not speak. And now the whistler's strange stories that Cutlerville affair.
(00:50):
The night train from Los Angeles, chattering the stillness of
the countryside, had just raced over the North River Bridge
now began to wind serpent like along its mountain roadbed
as David Talbot, sitting in the club car, holded the
evening newspaper in his lap and looked at his watch.
Then he leaned back in his chair in sighed, a happy,
(01:10):
contented sigh.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Suddenly he tensed and stared.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
As a slender, attractive blonde and her male companion entered
the car. Quickly, he picked up the newspaper again to
shield his face, but he was too late.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Day Dave Talbot, of all people.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Oh, Laura, well, this is a surprise.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Imagine running into you again after all these years.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
How are you, Dave.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
We'll just fine, Laura, fine, still.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Looking as handsome as ever. Oh you've never let my husband,
Frank Williams. Frankie, this is Dave Talbot and old friends.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, how I have dayed nice familiar mister Williams hair
make that Frankie, and everybody calls me frank Dave.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
And I used to work for Jack Kelly years ago.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Darling Kelley has private eye.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Let try.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Jack used to say that we were the best operatives
he'd ever had. Well, what do you know?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Will you mind if we join you? Day?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Go?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Please do? Oh here you are, Nora, Oh.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Thank you all.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
This is simply wonderful day running into you again, simply wonderful.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Why around the drinks, Frankie.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
You hadn't expected ever to see Nora again, had you, David?
But now that you have, it's brought back a flood
of memories. Unpleasant memory. Yes, your past is caught up
with you, hasn't and you're disturbed, uneasy, hardly listen to
her as she goes on chatting about the good old
days when the two of you worked for Skelley's detective agency.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Remember the time David Skelley put us on the Cosgrove case. Cosgrove,
you know, the old gentleman looking for his daughter Julie.
You remember, Oh yeah, Yeah, he was a funny little guy, Frankie,
but loaded with joe. That mh is why the divorced
in years before taking their child out west with her.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Somehow he lost track of it while he was in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
What'd you do?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Find a nice do you see?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Gold mine?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
No? No, he and a partner are going into some
sort of business. Do you remember what it was?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Day?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
No, not exactly. He had his fingers and several different things.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Anyway, Frankie. He came back with around two hundred grands.
Wanted to find his daughter so he could leave the
money to her when he passed.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
On Uh lucky gown.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Maybe she wasn't you see? We never did find her, did.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
We, Dave?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
No, No, we didn't.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Too bad.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Let me see, Anne Cosgrove would be about twenty five
or twenty six by now.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
That was her name, wasn't it, David?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
And yeah that's right?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And uh look you two, I'm sorry I have to
break away, but my stop is coming up, so uh Nora, Frankie,
I guess I'll say goodbye.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Oh, not good bye day. We'll all see one another again,
won't we?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Why?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Sure? Sure?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Will you have a the city where I just give
us a fly.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
We were in the low.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Tide of soul box. Do that today, Yes, of course
I will, Laur of course, Dave o day. Hy Oh hello, Darling.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Name is late one whole minute.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Well, never mind that. How you been feeling?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
I'm better? Yes, But how did the deal go?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Just fine?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I shot it up.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Oh that's wonderful, Darling. I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I'm sort of proud of myself the way I handled it.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
That property sale will meet us.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
A nice little commission.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
The company bought the entire seven.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Eight Uh huh. I'm going to start building as soon
as possible.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
You know, a couple of Ville should be mighty proud
of you too.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
There's in every day a big chemical company decides to
build a million dollar planned.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
David, you've been doing wonderfully well in a few years
you've been in the real estate business.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Oh, just been lucky.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
I guess no, Darling, it's more than that you worked hard.
You like what you're doing, and people like you.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, I like Cudtlerville and now missus Talbot.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
How about feeding your husband?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Huh, I'm famished.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Of Chris Darling.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Then he's already and waiting.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
I ay, sure you don't need any help.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
No, I'll see the things off the table. You go
on in the den and relax. We'll have a coffee
your nail.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh could that be expecting anyone to earn Missus Chambers
to pick up some sewing I have for you.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Couldn't be this early.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
See what it is, David. I'll take the dishes into
the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
All right, Hello day Laura.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Well, hi boy, couldn't help noticing the town woman when
you got off the train, Darling.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
It was so friendly and warm, So after you left
the train we decided to get off too. Who is it, darling?
And what a charming little home? Cozy?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yes, it's real cozy. Always thought I'd like to settle down.
And that's like this someday, White pick a French out
in front, roses around the door, you know, in the works. Oh,
this must be the little woman. Eh. Hello, oh, johny,
I'd like you to meet some old friends of mine,
Nora and Frank Williams.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Hello Anne. It is Anne, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Yes, that's right missus Williams.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Make that Nora, and.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
This is Frankly Well, as I was telling Dave, we
were just passing through, we decided to drop by and
say hello, I hope we're not intruding.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Oh no, of course not. We were about to have
our call see in the den, don't you, Johnny?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Real fine, fine this.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Way, mister Frankie.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Ah, that's the ticket. And that's very.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Well Dave.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
It looks like my hunch was right.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Nora.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
What's the idea?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Always were a pretty good private eye, Dave. That's the
way I figured it.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Not only found Anne Cosgrove, the missing heiress.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
But you married her too.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
What you feared most has happened, hasn't it, David.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
But someday someone would learn the truth about your coming
to Cuttorville.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And now Nora.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Williams and all acquaintance has guessed the reason knows why
you married Anne. You're on edge and tense. Take little
part in the conversation as you sit in the den
with your wife Anne, Nora and her husband Frank.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Fortunately, Lee, Nora.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Says nothing of your past association with Skelly's detective agency,
all of your part in the search launched by Anne's
father in an effort to locate it. Finally, you breathe
a sigh of relief as Frank gets to his feet
and glances at his watch. Well, not a baby, if
we're going to catch the train?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Oh is it that time already? Since we just got here?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Must you rush off so soon?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah? Pray, Joe gotta be in farming.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Good by morning, really, and Darling, we'd love to stay,
but we can some other time though. We've so much
to chat about, haven't we, David.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, that's right, Laura.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Oh, we'll Dave.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You might have I use your.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Phone like the court cab.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Oh, don't bother. David will drive you down to the dphone.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Wouldn't want to put you out there, No trouble.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
I you three run along. I'm expecting my sewing woman,
so I'd better stay here. I've so enjoyed meeting you, Norah, Frank.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Thank you, darling, and we've looked forward to the pleasure
of meeting you for such.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
A long time, haven't we, fraid.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah, that's right, Nora, baby, we sure have.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
You're being rather quiet day, am I.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
He's probably got a lot on his mind. Norah puzzled.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Maybe, well, I'm.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Sort of puzzled myself.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
David.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Here you are driving a three year old car, residing
in a modest little cottage. Oh it's nice enough, but
hardly what I expected. I thought we'd find you living
in style and keeping with that nice fat bank account.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Yeah that's right.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
How come, Dave, I just don't happen to have a
nice fat bank account.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
That's called all David.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Come now.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
And father died over a year ago.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Surely you must have arranged for his lawyer to find him.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
No, I haven't arranged anything.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Really, tell me more.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Sure, I'll tell you the whole story.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I had a plan all worked out when I came
to Cutlerville, and.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I carried it out.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I met and married Anne Cosgrove, and what the locals
call the world in.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Courtship, Go on, David, this is interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
And I figured i'd wait six months or so and
then fix it.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
So that Ann would learn about her father and the money.
I just never got around to it.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And why not, because something went wrong with my fine
plan within a few months of the marriage and became ill,
very ill, almost died.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
That's when I realized how much I really loved her.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Did you hear that, Frankie? The man is telling us
he fell in love with a girl.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I don't expect you to believe me.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Noura.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
But it's true.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Man is different from any girl I've ever met, the.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Clinging vine tradule, the helpless type. They can really get
their hooks into a man, can't they? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, not like you can, Nora.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
You're my kind Thank.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
You, darling. Go on, David, tell us more.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
I'm afraid there's nothing more to tell. Here's the depot.
A few people are going to.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Carry No, we've got a few minutes. Yes, go on, David.
Tell us how you began.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
To feel like a heal about the whole thing, marrying
the little doll for her money.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I felt exactly like a heel.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Now you've done nothing about the inheritance. Ain't just talked
it out the window? Awful love, eh min my mine?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Well, now I've heard everything, You've.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Heard, the truth, every word of it.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Would Anne Bolivia? I think she would, but you're not certain,
are you. I wonder how she'd react to that affair
in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You were mixed up in a few years ago, remember David,
the little widow Marcia Marcia Winston.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Uh huh A skeleton the lad's family closet.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Ah, something I don't know about.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
The widow and David were engaged to be married Frankie.
They made a charming couple, Dave with his looks and
the widow with her money.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Now, of god, she had to have money. All Dave's
girlfriends have money.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Oh naturally, Dad, are so attractive to David, and she
was so smitten.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
She even went as far as to change her will.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Leaving everything to Davy.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Here ain't right, just.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
As day the plan.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Oh look, Nora, And then a terrible thing happened Frankie.
Before the wedding could take place, the widow accidentally took
an overdose of sleeping pills died also.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
According to plan.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Dave, you know I had nothing to do with that, Nora.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Well, the courts decided that way, but the newspaper seemed
to feel that your acquittal was a travesty unjustice.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, got off the hook and got the cash too, eh.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Well, unfortunately Dave didn't get a scent, Franky, No, no,
you see, it turned out that the widow had had
a change of heart a week before she died. She
changed her will again, but Dave didn't know about that
when she accidentally took the overdose of sleeping pills.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Did you, Dave, you mean that Davy here didn't collect
a single soue not run after all that trouble my mind.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
What a staggering blow.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Makes an interesting story, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Frankie, Oh, very must be our train, baby, I want
to miss it.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Thanks for little Brandie, Yes, thank her everything.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Dave, just forget it.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I'll be seeing you.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Yes, We'll be seeing you again real soon.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
You're uneasy, jittery in the days that follow, aren't you, David.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Everything you told Norah is the truth, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
But you wonder how your wife Anne would react to
the story of the Seattle affairs, especially the news stories
of your trial, new stories You're sure Norah has, stories
you're certain would chatter and belief in your integrity and
sincerity and shock her so severely the strain might be
too great, fradulent sensitive ends.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Well on the road to recovery, now.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Isn't she, and you don't want anything to interfere.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Then the several weeks ago and there's.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
No word from Nora, you begin to breathe a lot easier.
One afternoon as you return home from the office and
comes down the walk to meet Well.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Hello, Darling, I thought I closed the office up early.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You know, and there's something.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Wrong, David.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
I've I've just had a visitor.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Oh, of mister Berwin, an.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Attorney representing my father's estate.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Your father.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
You remember I told you I hadn't seen him since
I was a child. I didn't know where he was. Yes, Well,
mister Berwin's brought me the news, David, father's dead. He
died last year.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Oh and honey, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
I'm very sorry.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
I knew so very little about him, David.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Somehow I wish I I could have seen him again. Oh,
I've had to go up to the city tomorrow. Mister
Berwin is anxious to settle things. It seems father left
a considerable amount of money.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
He's willed everything to new m Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
If all Norah's doing, isn't it, David. Yes, she's told
mister Berwin of Anne's identity and whereabouts because she's anxious
for you to share Anne's.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
And Harrison and you know why.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yes, Norah has planned, haven't you plans to blackmail you
because of what she knows. The following day, you and
Anne drive up to the lawyer's office in the city.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
The media has briefed the formality is over quickly and
if the two of you.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Leave the office, David, is something wrong I had to
do with the money?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
For you're a wealthy woman, darning.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
The money is as much yours as it is mine.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
No, no, no, it isn't that it's yours, all yours.
But days when we get back to Cutler that I
want you to open a separate accout.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Of the bank, Darling, No, dear, it isn't.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
But I thought we could invest in mine and listen
to me.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
If you want to invest, why don't you have a
talk with Carter down at the bank.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Let him handle the matter for you.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
But David, I don't understand it.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Because it's your money.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I don't want any part of it. Please no, I
and I'm sorry, but please do as I asked.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Won't you.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
We'll all right if that's the way you want it.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yes, David, that's exactly the way you wanted it. It's
a move on your part to block Nora and her
plans to keep the money out of reach, and you're
certain it'll work. You're certain of something else too, an't you?
And it happens a few days later, as you walk
down Cutterfield's main street.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
The yellows and vertebral pulls up at the curtain.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Well, Laura, just passing through again.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yes, I dropped by to see and and she informed
me of her recent inheritance.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I was through the course, weren't.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You didn't tell her what she plans to do with
the money.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Oh, it seems that it's all tied up by some
friend at the bank.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
He's going to see that she invested properly.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
That's right, And I don't have a thing.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
To do with it.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Really your idea, of course?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Did Anne say it was?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
No? But I have a hunch.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
How clever of you, David Suffer.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Well, it's like the affair in Seattle, same thing all
over again, and certain ants made out her will to you,
leaving everything to you.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
The lawyer told you no, Dave van Is.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
A few minutes ago. And now that you stand to
inherit her money.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I hope for your sake she doesn't take an overdose
of sleeping pills.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
After that Seattle situation.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
It would look sad for you, real bad.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Norah isn't going to give up, is she, David? No,
you're certain she's going to do something, and you're sure
she'll give the matter some very careful thoughts before deciding
what The weeks go by, ten anxious weeks of waiting
and wondering what Nora has planned. Then one night, as
you return home, you find the house in doc You
remember that Anne had a late afternoon appointment at.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
The doctor's office from the city.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You settled down on the den with a high ball
and looked through the evening paper.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Hello, David, this is Sheriff Eimes. Oh yes, what is it, Sheriff.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I'm phoning from the hospital. David.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
There's been an accident, an accident.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yes, it's Hanne. You better come right over. Make it easy, David,
Barrister said, she's had a close call.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
But she'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
How did it happen, Sheriff?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Where on the old Crown Heroad another car side swipers
and lost control, ran off the banks. The youngsters out
on a hay ride saw the whole thing happened. They
claim the other car ran Anne off the road deliberately.
What so just kept right ongoing? Is a yellow convertible?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yellow convertible?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
David, Yes, Norah Williams drives the yellow convertible.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Doesn't she.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Inside the hospital room, you stand at Anne's bedside, look
down at her, lying still and quiet. They've done this tour,
haven't they. David, Nora and Frank. They tried to kill
Anne because they felt certain, with her death you would
inherit everything and then pay them liberally.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
For their silence.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
A rushing, seeming wave of cold rage and gulture, and
you're trembling with wild hatred as you turn and hurry
out of the hospital pack at the house, you make
up your mind. You decide to make certain neither Frank
nor Nora will ever hurt Anne or anyone else again.
You take the forty five automatic out of your dress
to drawer, slip it into your pocket.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Then you pick up the phone. Call the depot.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Paul, Yes, flown talking.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Oh Jess, this is Dave Talbot.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Oh hello, mister Talbot.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Listen, Jess.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I've got to get to Los Angeles right away.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
This never trained you shortly.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Yep, it's going, dude, eight twenty.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But it don't stop here and let that fragger.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Down at eight twenty.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
I can just make it just like a talwardy sure thing,
mister Talvin.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
A moment later, you rush out of the house. The
night air is cool.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
And crisp, and as you walk the six blocks towards
the depot.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You're thinking things out more and more clearly now.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
The anger the hatred you fell back at the hospital
subsides a little as your thoughts turned to Anne, and
you begin to realize if what you plan to do
is all wrong. Even though you're sure you'll lose Anne's love,
her belief in you, and your reputation and career in Cutlerville,
if the story of your previous situation in Seattle has
(20:55):
made published, you still can't take the law in your
own hands, Kennedy. No, you've got to get Anne the
best protection you can, and you're sure that she'll suffer
less than the long run from learning all about you,
and she would if you went into Los Angeles and
took care of Norah and Frank in the manner you.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Feel they deserve.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You're only a short distance from the depot. When you
reach your decision, You turn into the main street and
hurry into the Sheriff's office.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Well, David, what are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Sheriff? I'd like a word with you, for sure, Sir David,
tell me what's on your mind. You've made your decision,
haven't you, David, Yes, you're going to tell the sheriff everything,
(21:47):
why you came to Cuttterville and married Anne, and you'll
explain how later you changed your mind about the money,
how Nora Williams forced your hands, how she tried to
kill Anne. Yes, David, you've got to tell the whole story,
even if it means losing Anne's love, if the chance
you have to take to protect her from any further harm.
But before you can tell the sheriff anything, he's interrupted
(22:08):
by a rather lengthy phone call. Yeah, yeah, I understand,
I understand. Uh huh, all right, sergeant, I'll be right over.
I'm sorry, David. I'm gonna have believe something's happening. You
remember that yellow convertible I was talking about for Yes,
(22:29):
of course, he put out a bulletin on the car
I have transaccident. That was the state cooper I was
talking to, spotted the car about thirty miles up the
highway and chased it back in this direction of we'll
go on shore. When the convertibile reached Cutnerville, hear it
left the main highway turned up into the cliff road.
If they were really hitting it up, car skid it
on a curve, crashed into the ravine.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Both occupants of the car were killed instantly killed. Both
been identified as Nora and Frank Williams. It's too bad.
They'd probably be alive and in police custody. By this time.
They hadn't been forced off the main highway. What I
mean forced off the main highway was blocked off of
the depot here by the twenty train waiting to pick
(23:12):
up some passengers at eight twenty.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I was the one who called Chest to have the
train stop up.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I was the one right but that day nothing shirff Man. Well,
I'll be back shortly. Dave you care to wait here?
Speaker 5 (23:27):
No, no, I guess.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I won't wait, Sheriff what I wanted to tell you about, Well,
it isn't important anymore. Featured in Tonight's story where Bill
Forman is the whitler, Larry Dobkin, Michael and Barrett, Judy
(23:52):
Tenni
I am the whistler, and I know many things. Or
I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
in the hearts of men and women who.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Have stepped into the shadows.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare
not speak. And now the whistler's strange stories that Cutlerville affair.
(00:50):
The night train from Los Angeles, chattering the stillness of
the countryside, had just raced over the North River Bridge
now began to wind serpent like along its mountain roadbed
as David Talbot, sitting in the club car, holded the
evening newspaper in his lap and looked at his watch.
Then he leaned back in his chair in sighed, a happy,
(01:10):
contented sigh.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Suddenly he tensed and stared.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
As a slender, attractive blonde and her male companion entered
the car. Quickly, he picked up the newspaper again to
shield his face, but he was too late.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Day Dave Talbot, of all people.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Oh, Laura, well, this is a surprise.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Imagine running into you again after all these years.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
How are you, Dave.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
We'll just fine, Laura, fine, still.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Looking as handsome as ever. Oh you've never let my husband,
Frank Williams. Frankie, this is Dave Talbot and old friends.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, how I have dayed nice familiar mister Williams hair
make that Frankie, and everybody calls me frank Dave.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
And I used to work for Jack Kelly years ago.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Darling Kelley has private eye.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Let try.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Jack used to say that we were the best operatives
he'd ever had. Well, what do you know?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Will you mind if we join you? Day?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Go?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Please do? Oh here you are, Nora, Oh.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Thank you all.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
This is simply wonderful day running into you again, simply wonderful.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Why around the drinks, Frankie.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
You hadn't expected ever to see Nora again, had you, David?
But now that you have, it's brought back a flood
of memories. Unpleasant memory. Yes, your past is caught up
with you, hasn't and you're disturbed, uneasy, hardly listen to
her as she goes on chatting about the good old
days when the two of you worked for Skelley's detective agency.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Remember the time David Skelley put us on the Cosgrove case. Cosgrove,
you know, the old gentleman looking for his daughter Julie.
You remember, Oh yeah, Yeah, he was a funny little guy, Frankie,
but loaded with joe. That mh is why the divorced
in years before taking their child out west with her.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Somehow he lost track of it while he was in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
What'd you do?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Find a nice do you see?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Gold mine?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
No? No, he and a partner are going into some
sort of business. Do you remember what it was?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Day?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
No, not exactly. He had his fingers and several different things.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Anyway, Frankie. He came back with around two hundred grands.
Wanted to find his daughter so he could leave the
money to her when he passed.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
On Uh lucky gown.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Maybe she wasn't you see? We never did find her, did.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
We, Dave?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
No, No, we didn't.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Too bad.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Let me see, Anne Cosgrove would be about twenty five
or twenty six by now.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
That was her name, wasn't it, David?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
And yeah that's right?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And uh look you two, I'm sorry I have to
break away, but my stop is coming up, so uh Nora, Frankie,
I guess I'll say goodbye.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Oh, not good bye day. We'll all see one another again,
won't we?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Why?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Sure? Sure?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Will you have a the city where I just give
us a fly.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
We were in the low.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Tide of soul box. Do that today, Yes, of course
I will, Laur of course, Dave o day. Hy Oh hello, Darling.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Name is late one whole minute.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Well, never mind that. How you been feeling?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
I'm better? Yes, But how did the deal go?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Just fine?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I shot it up.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Oh that's wonderful, Darling. I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I'm sort of proud of myself the way I handled it.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
That property sale will meet us.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
A nice little commission.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
The company bought the entire seven.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Eight Uh huh. I'm going to start building as soon
as possible.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
You know, a couple of Ville should be mighty proud
of you too.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
There's in every day a big chemical company decides to
build a million dollar planned.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
David, you've been doing wonderfully well in a few years
you've been in the real estate business.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Oh, just been lucky.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
I guess no, Darling, it's more than that you worked hard.
You like what you're doing, and people like you.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, I like Cudtlerville and now missus Talbot.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
How about feeding your husband?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Huh, I'm famished.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Of Chris Darling.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Then he's already and waiting.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
I ay, sure you don't need any help.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
No, I'll see the things off the table. You go
on in the den and relax. We'll have a coffee
your nail.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh could that be expecting anyone to earn Missus Chambers
to pick up some sewing I have for you.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Couldn't be this early.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
See what it is, David. I'll take the dishes into
the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
All right, Hello day Laura.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Well, hi boy, couldn't help noticing the town woman when
you got off the train, Darling.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
It was so friendly and warm, So after you left
the train we decided to get off too. Who is it, darling?
And what a charming little home? Cozy?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yes, it's real cozy. Always thought I'd like to settle down.
And that's like this someday, White pick a French out
in front, roses around the door, you know, in the works. Oh,
this must be the little woman. Eh. Hello, oh, johny,
I'd like you to meet some old friends of mine,
Nora and Frank Williams.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Hello Anne. It is Anne, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Yes, that's right missus Williams.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Make that Nora, and.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
This is Frankly Well, as I was telling Dave, we
were just passing through, we decided to drop by and
say hello, I hope we're not intruding.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Oh no, of course not. We were about to have
our call see in the den, don't you, Johnny?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Real fine, fine this.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Way, mister Frankie.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Ah, that's the ticket. And that's very.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Well Dave.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
It looks like my hunch was right.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Nora.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
What's the idea?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Always were a pretty good private eye, Dave. That's the
way I figured it.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Not only found Anne Cosgrove, the missing heiress.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
But you married her too.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
What you feared most has happened, hasn't it, David.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
But someday someone would learn the truth about your coming
to Cuttorville.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And now Nora.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Williams and all acquaintance has guessed the reason knows why
you married Anne. You're on edge and tense. Take little
part in the conversation as you sit in the den
with your wife Anne, Nora and her husband Frank.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Fortunately, Lee, Nora.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Says nothing of your past association with Skelly's detective agency,
all of your part in the search launched by Anne's
father in an effort to locate it. Finally, you breathe
a sigh of relief as Frank gets to his feet
and glances at his watch. Well, not a baby, if
we're going to catch the train?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Oh is it that time already? Since we just got here?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Must you rush off so soon?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah? Pray, Joe gotta be in farming.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Good by morning, really, and Darling, we'd love to stay,
but we can some other time though. We've so much
to chat about, haven't we, David.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, that's right, Laura.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Oh, we'll Dave.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You might have I use your.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Phone like the court cab.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Oh, don't bother. David will drive you down to the dphone.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Wouldn't want to put you out there, No trouble.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
I you three run along. I'm expecting my sewing woman,
so I'd better stay here. I've so enjoyed meeting you, Norah, Frank.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Thank you, darling, and we've looked forward to the pleasure
of meeting you for such.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
A long time, haven't we, fraid.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah, that's right, Nora, baby, we sure have.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
You're being rather quiet day, am I.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
He's probably got a lot on his mind. Norah puzzled.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Maybe, well, I'm.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Sort of puzzled myself.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
David.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Here you are driving a three year old car, residing
in a modest little cottage. Oh it's nice enough, but
hardly what I expected. I thought we'd find you living
in style and keeping with that nice fat bank account.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Yeah that's right.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
How come, Dave, I just don't happen to have a
nice fat bank account.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
That's called all David.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Come now.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
And father died over a year ago.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Surely you must have arranged for his lawyer to find him.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
No, I haven't arranged anything.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Really, tell me more.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Sure, I'll tell you the whole story.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I had a plan all worked out when I came
to Cutlerville, and.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I carried it out.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I met and married Anne Cosgrove, and what the locals
call the world in.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Courtship, Go on, David, this is interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
And I figured i'd wait six months or so and
then fix it.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
So that Ann would learn about her father and the money.
I just never got around to it.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And why not, because something went wrong with my fine
plan within a few months of the marriage and became ill,
very ill, almost died.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
That's when I realized how much I really loved her.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Did you hear that, Frankie? The man is telling us
he fell in love with a girl.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I don't expect you to believe me.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Noura.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
But it's true.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Man is different from any girl I've ever met, the.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Clinging vine tradule, the helpless type. They can really get
their hooks into a man, can't they? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, not like you can, Nora.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
You're my kind Thank.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
You, darling. Go on, David, tell us more.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
I'm afraid there's nothing more to tell. Here's the depot.
A few people are going to.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Carry No, we've got a few minutes. Yes, go on, David.
Tell us how you began.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
To feel like a heal about the whole thing, marrying
the little doll for her money.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I felt exactly like a heel.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Now you've done nothing about the inheritance. Ain't just talked
it out the window? Awful love, eh min my mine?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Well, now I've heard everything, You've.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Heard, the truth, every word of it.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Would Anne Bolivia? I think she would, but you're not certain,
are you. I wonder how she'd react to that affair
in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You were mixed up in a few years ago, remember David,
the little widow Marcia Marcia Winston.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Uh huh A skeleton the lad's family closet.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Ah, something I don't know about.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
The widow and David were engaged to be married Frankie.
They made a charming couple, Dave with his looks and
the widow with her money.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Now, of god, she had to have money. All Dave's
girlfriends have money.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Oh naturally, Dad, are so attractive to David, and she
was so smitten.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
She even went as far as to change her will.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Leaving everything to Davy.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Here ain't right, just.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
As day the plan.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Oh look, Nora, And then a terrible thing happened Frankie.
Before the wedding could take place, the widow accidentally took
an overdose of sleeping pills died also.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
According to plan.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Dave, you know I had nothing to do with that, Nora.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Well, the courts decided that way, but the newspaper seemed
to feel that your acquittal was a travesty unjustice.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, got off the hook and got the cash too, eh.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Well, unfortunately Dave didn't get a scent, Franky, No, no,
you see, it turned out that the widow had had
a change of heart a week before she died. She
changed her will again, but Dave didn't know about that
when she accidentally took the overdose of sleeping pills.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Did you, Dave, you mean that Davy here didn't collect
a single soue not run after all that trouble my mind.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
What a staggering blow.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Makes an interesting story, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Frankie, Oh, very must be our train, baby, I want
to miss it.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Thanks for little Brandie, Yes, thank her everything.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Dave, just forget it.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I'll be seeing you.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Yes, We'll be seeing you again real soon.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
You're uneasy, jittery in the days that follow, aren't you, David.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Everything you told Norah is the truth, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
But you wonder how your wife Anne would react to
the story of the Seattle affairs, especially the news stories
of your trial, new stories You're sure Norah has, stories
you're certain would chatter and belief in your integrity and
sincerity and shock her so severely the strain might be
too great, fradulent sensitive ends.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Well on the road to recovery, now.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Isn't she, and you don't want anything to interfere.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Then the several weeks ago and there's.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
No word from Nora, you begin to breathe a lot easier.
One afternoon as you return home from the office and
comes down the walk to meet Well.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Hello, Darling, I thought I closed the office up early.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You know, and there's something.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Wrong, David.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
I've I've just had a visitor.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Oh, of mister Berwin, an.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Attorney representing my father's estate.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Your father.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
You remember I told you I hadn't seen him since
I was a child. I didn't know where he was. Yes, Well,
mister Berwin's brought me the news, David, father's dead. He
died last year.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Oh and honey, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
I'm very sorry.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
I knew so very little about him, David.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Somehow I wish I I could have seen him again. Oh,
I've had to go up to the city tomorrow. Mister
Berwin is anxious to settle things. It seems father left
a considerable amount of money.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
He's willed everything to new m Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
If all Norah's doing, isn't it, David. Yes, she's told
mister Berwin of Anne's identity and whereabouts because she's anxious
for you to share Anne's.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
And Harrison and you know why.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yes, Norah has planned, haven't you plans to blackmail you
because of what she knows. The following day, you and
Anne drive up to the lawyer's office in the city.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
The media has briefed the formality is over quickly and
if the two of you.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Leave the office, David, is something wrong I had to
do with the money?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
For you're a wealthy woman, darning.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
The money is as much yours as it is mine.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
No, no, no, it isn't that it's yours, all yours.
But days when we get back to Cutler that I
want you to open a separate accout.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Of the bank, Darling, No, dear, it isn't.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
But I thought we could invest in mine and listen
to me.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
If you want to invest, why don't you have a
talk with Carter down at the bank.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Let him handle the matter for you.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
But David, I don't understand it.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Because it's your money.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I don't want any part of it. Please no, I
and I'm sorry, but please do as I asked.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Won't you.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
We'll all right if that's the way you want it.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yes, David, that's exactly the way you wanted it. It's
a move on your part to block Nora and her
plans to keep the money out of reach, and you're
certain it'll work. You're certain of something else too, an't you?
And it happens a few days later, as you walk
down Cutterfield's main street.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
The yellows and vertebral pulls up at the curtain.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Well, Laura, just passing through again.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yes, I dropped by to see and and she informed
me of her recent inheritance.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I was through the course, weren't.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You didn't tell her what she plans to do with
the money.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Oh, it seems that it's all tied up by some
friend at the bank.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
He's going to see that she invested properly.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
That's right, And I don't have a thing.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
To do with it.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Really your idea, of course?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Did Anne say it was?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
No? But I have a hunch.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
How clever of you, David Suffer.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Well, it's like the affair in Seattle, same thing all
over again, and certain ants made out her will to you,
leaving everything to you.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
The lawyer told you no, Dave van Is.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
A few minutes ago. And now that you stand to
inherit her money.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I hope for your sake she doesn't take an overdose
of sleeping pills.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
After that Seattle situation.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
It would look sad for you, real bad.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Norah isn't going to give up, is she, David? No,
you're certain she's going to do something, and you're sure
she'll give the matter some very careful thoughts before deciding
what The weeks go by, ten anxious weeks of waiting
and wondering what Nora has planned. Then one night, as
you return home, you find the house in doc You
remember that Anne had a late afternoon appointment at.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
The doctor's office from the city.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You settled down on the den with a high ball
and looked through the evening paper.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Hello, David, this is Sheriff Eimes. Oh yes, what is it, Sheriff.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I'm phoning from the hospital. David.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
There's been an accident, an accident.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yes, it's Hanne. You better come right over. Make it easy, David,
Barrister said, she's had a close call.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
But she'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
How did it happen, Sheriff?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Where on the old Crown Heroad another car side swipers
and lost control, ran off the banks. The youngsters out
on a hay ride saw the whole thing happened. They
claim the other car ran Anne off the road deliberately.
What so just kept right ongoing? Is a yellow convertible?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yellow convertible?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
David, Yes, Norah Williams drives the yellow convertible.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Doesn't she.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Inside the hospital room, you stand at Anne's bedside, look
down at her, lying still and quiet. They've done this tour,
haven't they. David, Nora and Frank. They tried to kill
Anne because they felt certain, with her death you would
inherit everything and then pay them liberally.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
For their silence.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
A rushing, seeming wave of cold rage and gulture, and
you're trembling with wild hatred as you turn and hurry
out of the hospital pack at the house, you make
up your mind. You decide to make certain neither Frank
nor Nora will ever hurt Anne or anyone else again.
You take the forty five automatic out of your dress
to drawer, slip it into your pocket.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Then you pick up the phone. Call the depot.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Paul, Yes, flown talking.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Oh Jess, this is Dave Talbot.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Oh hello, mister Talbot.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Listen, Jess.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I've got to get to Los Angeles right away.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
This never trained you shortly.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Yep, it's going, dude, eight twenty.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But it don't stop here and let that fragger.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Down at eight twenty.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
I can just make it just like a talwardy sure thing,
mister Talvin.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
A moment later, you rush out of the house. The
night air is cool.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
And crisp, and as you walk the six blocks towards
the depot.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You're thinking things out more and more clearly now.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
The anger the hatred you fell back at the hospital
subsides a little as your thoughts turned to Anne, and
you begin to realize if what you plan to do
is all wrong. Even though you're sure you'll lose Anne's love,
her belief in you, and your reputation and career in Cutlerville,
if the story of your previous situation in Seattle has
(20:55):
made published, you still can't take the law in your
own hands, Kennedy. No, you've got to get Anne the
best protection you can, and you're sure that she'll suffer
less than the long run from learning all about you,
and she would if you went into Los Angeles and
took care of Norah and Frank in the manner you.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Feel they deserve.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You're only a short distance from the depot. When you
reach your decision, You turn into the main street and
hurry into the Sheriff's office.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Well, David, what are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Sheriff? I'd like a word with you, for sure, Sir David,
tell me what's on your mind. You've made your decision,
haven't you, David, Yes, you're going to tell the sheriff everything,
(21:47):
why you came to Cuttterville and married Anne, and you'll
explain how later you changed your mind about the money,
how Nora Williams forced your hands, how she tried to
kill Anne. Yes, David, you've got to tell the whole story,
even if it means losing Anne's love, if the chance
you have to take to protect her from any further harm.
But before you can tell the sheriff anything, he's interrupted
(22:08):
by a rather lengthy phone call. Yeah, yeah, I understand,
I understand. Uh huh, all right, sergeant, I'll be right over.
I'm sorry, David. I'm gonna have believe something's happening. You
remember that yellow convertible I was talking about for Yes,
(22:29):
of course, he put out a bulletin on the car
I have transaccident. That was the state cooper I was
talking to, spotted the car about thirty miles up the
highway and chased it back in this direction of we'll
go on shore. When the convertibile reached Cutnerville, hear it
left the main highway turned up into the cliff road.
If they were really hitting it up, car skid it
on a curve, crashed into the ravine.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Both occupants of the car were killed instantly killed. Both
been identified as Nora and Frank Williams. It's too bad.
They'd probably be alive and in police custody. By this time.
They hadn't been forced off the main highway. What I
mean forced off the main highway was blocked off of
the depot here by the twenty train waiting to pick
(23:12):
up some passengers at eight twenty.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I was the one who called Chest to have the
train stop up.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I was the one right but that day nothing shirff Man. Well,
I'll be back shortly. Dave you care to wait here?
Speaker 5 (23:27):
No, no, I guess.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I won't wait, Sheriff what I wanted to tell you about, Well,
it isn't important anymore. Featured in Tonight's story where Bill
Forman is the whitler, Larry Dobkin, Michael and Barrett, Judy
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