August 15, 2025 • 30 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 (00:01):
And now stay tuned for the mystery program that is
unique among all mystery programs, because even when you know
who's guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at the
final curtain. In the Signal Oil program, the Whistler Signal,
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the famous go Father Gasoline invite you to sit back
and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things. For
I walk by night. I know many range tales hidden
in the hearts of men and women who had stepped
into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's strange story.
The Cliffs at wayream.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
The early morning fog moved in and about the scene,
and swirling misty patches beneath it, adding its own lonely
rhythm of sound, was the sea. The cliffs rose high above,
dominating at all. But Paul Galvin and the sheriff were
oblivious to the cliffs, the weather, and the sound of
the sea. Their attentions were focused on the still limp
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form of the man who had been mari Olavetti. Paul
Galvin had made the discovery and sent for the sheriff.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Hmm, Marie Olivetti ever heard the name Bull?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
No, he's a complete me.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I'm sure he's a complete stranger to the village. You
wear him too. I know it's odd that he'd come
here to kill himself. Well, it could have been an accident.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I suppose.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
It looks like you've heel from a spot very close
to your place, Paul. Was mister Galvin expecting anyone last
night and he visited uncle Kurt?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
No, not that I know of.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Sheriff.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Of course, you can't come up to the house. We'll
ask him.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It might be a good idea, and anyway I can
call from up there have the body removed.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
Yeah, come on, we can take the path up the cliffs.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Struggling up the path, you smile to yourself, Paul, the
fact of Mariola that his strange death is going to
make a difference in your life.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Isn't it?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Yes, a big difference.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You're disappointed that your uncle Kurt Galvan is not in
the house when you arrive with the sheriff, but it
doesn't really matter. You let the sheriff use the telephone
for his cause. Finally bid him goodbye, and then hurry
down to the village. The cabin cruiser is tied up
alongside a small dock, just as you expected, and also
as you expected, Kurt is on board. You can hear
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him whistling as you approach. He's happily polishing the brass
work on the starboard rail.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Kurt, Uncle Kurt, Thanks, what brings you down here? There's
been an accident, Kurt, accident. Yeah, a man fell from
the cliffs. Happened during the night.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
It's a It's too bad.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Yeah, isn't it not only for mister Lovetti.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (03:40):
You know, Uncle Kurt. Things are going to be run
a little differently around the old homestead from now on,
very differently.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I should say, Oh, yes, you.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
See, I've I've wanted to take over the management of
the Galvin interest for some time. Now handle my own money.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
I think you're big enough to handle the do you.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
I was out on the cliff path last night. I
saw who pushed Mary Olivetti over. Well, the sheriff wants
to talk to you. I'll talk to him, but so
will I unless.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
Unless I let you start running things.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Forget it.
Speaker 9 (04:17):
Paul Mario Olivetti had the idea that he could change
things too for.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Both of us.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I don't understand.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Sit down, Paul. I think I've got a bit of
a shock for you. They're wasting your time, Kurt. We're
going to have an understanding, or I'll go to the police.
Speaker 8 (04:32):
Sit down, You have an understanding, A good.
Speaker 10 (04:37):
One, my pipe here. This is quite a story.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You know this.
Speaker 9 (04:48):
Mario Lavetti has spent some time in Italy, so he
ran into something very interesting over there. I never thought
i'd have to tell you, But you're not, Paul Galvin.
What no need to get excited, Paul. It's pretty simple.
When my brother and his wife were killed in that
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auto accident.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Over the well, that was twenty years ago, what that
got to do with it?
Speaker 8 (05:13):
Listen, will you?
Speaker 9 (05:14):
I went over to bring young Paul home. I was
to manage the estate till I thought he was old.
I know all about that, but you don't know, and
neither does anyone else. Young Paul died the fever at
the tender age of Paul.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
This is ridiculous. It's something you're inventing.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Oh no, I proof, don't worry. Proof that I picked
you up and passed you off as my nephew.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I don't believe it is he.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
I'd never had much money of my own.
Speaker 9 (05:46):
And well, I didn't want to lose control of the estate.
It's been a mighty comfortable arrangement for both us.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I'm not Paul Galvin.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
Your real name, if you're interested, is Angelo Quote. I
believe your father was a well digger or something like that,
old Geldon. That's why I had to get rid of
Mario Lavetti.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
That's why you killed him, shoved him off the cliff.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
Yes, you would have tried to change things too. You
were a wealthy man, Paul, but only is my nephew.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Otherwise you're nothing.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
You get the idea.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I give you enough, my.
Speaker 9 (06:27):
Boy, more than you could acquire any other way, unless,
of course, you want.
Speaker 11 (06:33):
To try working Skip that Kurt uncle. Now you're seeing
the light, eh. And you won't go running to the
police hardly, of course not.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
And I'll go right on.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
Running things, won't I.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
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to me that you might like to know a little
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Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
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Speaker 2 (08:41):
Well, Paul, you're back in your same position. Your uncle
Kurtz told you that you're not Paul Galvin at all,
that he brought you from Italy as a child and
passed you off these many years, and now you can't
say or do anything about it. It doesn't seem possible,
does it, Paul, Especially as you stay in the great
hall of the house on the cliffs, stare up at
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a pair of oil paintings, which until now you believe
to be portraits of your own parents. And as you
stand there, one of the servants provides you with another
shot as he mentions what he thinks is simply a
bit of news to you.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yes, mister Paul, that's what I heard.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
That the Mario'lavetti wasn't alone in the village the other evening.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
And Nick, you say someone saw him driving in a car, Yes,
with a woman.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
The sheriff is trying to find it.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
He believes she might shed some light in the mystery.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Oh well, it's no mystery. A man falls or jumps
from a high place. Happens every day.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Oh yes, sir, I just thought you'd want to know
about it, sir.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yes, Paul, you do want to know about it.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
And Kurt must be informed right away, must be told
that there's someone else, a woman, who might have shared
the information that brought on mariolavetti sudden death. And then
you remember the Kurt is away on one of the
many trips he takes, and you curse his irresistible love
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for the sea. As long as you can remember, he
has come and gone with the tide, But his wanderings
might make such a difference At the moment, you wait
impatiently for the end of the week and Kurt's return,
and then hurry to the pier. Kurt's cruiser is tied
up there, but when you get aboard you find he's
already gone ashore. And then, from inside the cabin you
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happen to glance out a porthole stare puzzle at a
girl who's advancing along the pier towards you. You hurry
up on the deck and wait.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Looking for somebody.
Speaker 12 (10:47):
Oh no, I just saw this boat. She looks pretty.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
I like.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Oh, oh, step aboard if you like, sure, thank you.
Speaker 12 (11:00):
Oh my, she is a trim little craft.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (11:04):
I'm vacationing down here, right at the cottage.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
In the village. Oh, I'm a Paul Galvin.
Speaker 12 (11:12):
I'm either williams.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (11:15):
You have that big house on the cliffs, don't you. Why, Yes,
it's beautiful and this is your boat.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Oh it's my uncle's Kirk Galvin. But how did you
know I lived up there?
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (11:28):
The Galvin estate? You pointed out to me. There was
an accident several days ago. Wasn't there a man fell
off the cliffs?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yes, he was a stranger.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
You.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Uh, you didn't know him, know me?
Speaker 8 (11:43):
Why should I?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Oh, no reason.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
It's just that we don't have many visitors down here.
Speaker 12 (11:49):
I don't understand that. I like it here very much.
People are friendly. Ask other people aboard the booths.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I could be friendlier than that, Miss Williams.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Heva, Eva, Yeah, I'd like to show you about the place,
such as it is.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Perhaps tomorrow afternoon you'd care to have me drive into
the village you meet you.
Speaker 12 (12:13):
Oh, I'd like that very much.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
You you haven't a car yourself?
Speaker 12 (12:19):
No, No, I haven't.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Well, I'll drive in about two where you're.
Speaker 12 (12:23):
Staying at the Short Cottages number five.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Short Cottages, number five. I'll be there.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Eva.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
You're not quite sure of this, Eva Williams, are you?
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Paul?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
You have the strangest feeling when you first saw her
through the porthole of Kurt's boat that she was the one,
the missing woman who was with Mario Lavetti a short
while before he died. Later, talking with Kurt, you find
that he has little concern over the missing woman theory.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
It's ridiculous, Paul. Are you worried too much?
Speaker 7 (13:03):
But one of the villagers sallow that he was a woman, Kurt.
She was riding in a car with him, and she
might know as much as he did. I know who
gave that, because Ole Captain Dave. He's got the usual
imagination of the old sort. A few weeks back, he
reported a flying sauce.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Well, I thought you should know.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
I'm pleased you.
Speaker 10 (13:21):
Told me, Paul Cruse.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
You're aware of the situation that we're together in this.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Perhaps he's right about the mystery woman, Paul. Perhaps she
exists only in old Captain Dave's imagination. You meet Eia
the next day, and in the days that follow you'll
find yourself spending more and more time with her. She's
an attractive girl, isn't she, Paul, And you're becoming quite
fond of her, and sent somehow she's interested in you too. Then,
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late one evening, after dinner, the two of you sit
alone before the great fire place at the Inn, sipping
your drinks, listening to the storm outside.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
You've been kind of quiet all even. There's something on
your mind.
Speaker 12 (14:18):
Yes you want to talk about it, Yes, yes, I
guess I do.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
You know.
Speaker 12 (14:25):
It's funny sometimes the way things work out just the
way you expected. I knew a long time ago, Paul,
it would happen this week, and it has. What do
you mean, when the real thing came along? I know
it an instance. I knew it the day we met
at the boot.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Heeva, are you telling me.
Speaker 12 (14:49):
I'm in love with you? Paul, oh Eva, Paul, There's
something I've got to tell you. It's very important. My
name isn't Williams.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
It's Lovetti, Lovetti.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
That man found at the bottom.
Speaker 12 (15:13):
Of the cliffs my brother, I see. Yes, I was
with him that night. He'd asked me to drive him
down here. He got out of the car not far
from your house and told me to wait for him
in a village. And I waited all night, and next
morning I heard he'd been found at the cliffs.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
An accident. Of course, you know that path is rather treachius.
Speaker 12 (15:35):
I think it was an accident, Paul.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Oh, Mario was up to something.
Speaker 12 (15:41):
He wouldn't tell me what, but I had an idea
that whatever it was, it wasn't very honest. One thing
I do know he was to meet a man named Galvin.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
He told you that, yes, And.
Speaker 12 (15:54):
Then when I heard someone named Paul Galvin had found.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Him, I began to wonder, I'll see here he ye.
Speaker 12 (16:03):
That same morning, I drove back to town to Mario's apartment.
I didn't know what I was looking for, but well,
it was a hunch, and that's when I found the
letter letter addressed to Mariel. The letter indicated the writer
was willing to pay a certain sum of money that
a meeting was to be arranged. Mario was obviously blackmailing
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this man who signed the letter with a an initial k.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
K.
Speaker 12 (16:30):
That could be Kurt, couldn't it, Paul.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
My uncle?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Really? But you can't mean that, you think?
Speaker 12 (16:36):
Yes, that's why I came back here to see him instead.
I ran into you first, and it happened to.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Him, just like that book. Eva.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
I'm sure Kurt had nothing to do with your brother's death,
but that letter could make it look like you. Oh, darling, please,
you've got to destroy it.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
I'm afraid it's too late for that.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Paul, what do you mean?
Speaker 12 (16:59):
I mailed the letter to the Sheriff's office this morning.
Speaker 13 (17:04):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You know, this sudden turn and the tide of events
is the beginning of the end, don't you, Paul. You
sit there staring into the fire. Had had all gone
well until now happened it?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Paul.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
But now that Eva's mailed that letter to the sheriff,
you know it's only a matter of time before Kurt
is arrested. And when he is, you're certain he'll expose
you as an impostor. The Gallvant fortune will slip from
your grasp. You can't risk losing that fortune, can you, Paul?
You know now you'll do anything to say that.
Speaker 12 (17:39):
I'm sorry, Paul. I had to do it, as much
as I love you, knowing it could mean the end
of everything for.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Us, I had to do it.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You stalk out of the inn, leaving Eva without explanation,
get in your car and drive up the narrow to
the house on the cliffs. Suddenly you realize it's a
slim chance the sheriff hasn't yet received the letter. As
you reached the house and skid to a stop, you
find another car parked in the driveway, the Sheriff's car, Paul,
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and you know you're too late. Get out of the car,
look up to see the sheriff coming down the steps,
but he's alone.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Paul, PAULA, have you any idea of where Kurt is?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Kurt isn't he home?
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Hope your housekeepers had he left this afternoon?
Speaker 7 (18:30):
Oh, that's right, he did.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Did you say where he was going?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
No, he didn't say why, sheriffs is something important? It's
very important.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
Well, look, if you want to leave a message, i'd
I'll take care of it personally.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Good night.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
You remember, now, don't you?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Paul?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Kurt told you he was driving into the city having
dinner with an old friend tonight, but you couldn't tell
the sheriff. You hurry into the house the Kurt's desk
in the study. You're looking for the small black book
of telephone numbers when your hand closes over the gun
Kurt's gun, pick it up, stare at it, and suddenly
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a thought strikes you. You see your way out, don't you, Paul.
You slip the gun into your pocket and a moment
later put in your call to the city. Finally, Kurt's voice,
What is it, Paul, you'd better get back here as
soon as you can.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
Something's happened. Oh, the sheriff was here asking for you want.
I can't tell you now? How Look, I'll be waiting
for you at the boat. You'd better hurry. Oh, and Kurt,
don't let anyone see you.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
A quarter of an hour later, you step aboard Kurt's boat,
tied up along the end of the pier, and settled
down in the darkened cabin to wait. Time drags midnight,
there's still no sign of Kurt, and one o'clock two,
and the panic within you grows with each passing minute.
Finally you hurry off the boat, and if you start
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down the pier you see someone approaching.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Kurt.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
What kept you so long?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Fucked off?
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Five miles back Landslide had to take a detail.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Watch up that girl I told you about Eva.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
She's Lovetty's sister.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
She found a letter you'd written to Lovetty about the
young the blackmail and the.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Meeting with him.
Speaker 8 (20:38):
How does she know I wrote that letter? I always
signed my initial.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Yes. Well, she seems to figure that Kay stands for
Kurt and Lovetty told her he was meeting a man
named Galvin.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
That's not good, is it, Paul?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
He listen, You've got to get out of here right now.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
Yes, I suppose that would be the way I seem
to do. Of course, you understand, Paul, I'm there. It's
going to take money, a lot of money to run
and keep running. I'll expect you to send me whatever
amount I ask for from time to time.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Yes, yes, I'll take care of the curtain.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Be sure you do. You wouldn't want me to get caught,
would you? Come on, let's get aboard.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
You watch Kurt as he steps aboard the boat and
disappears into the cabin, and you know that, as long
as he's alive, your secret is in danger. There's always
the possibility he'll be caught someday and reveal you as
an impostor. And you don't want that, do your Paul.
You pull the gun out of your pocket, and as
you do, a car comes to a stop under the
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street light at the far end of the pier, the
Sheriff's car. Paul, You drop to one knee behind a
large packing case on the pier, your mind spinning furiously.
You've got to stop him.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Your next move must be, a move you're sure will
solve all your problem and enable you to take over
the Galvan estate immediately.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
The sheriff is halfway down.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
The pier when you pull the trigger. As he crumbles
on the Peer. You whirl, jump aboard the boat and
rush into the cabin.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
What the devil was that?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Who?
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Paul?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
What are you doing with that gun?
Speaker 7 (22:19):
You've just killed the sheriff, Uncle Kurt, and now you're
going to commit suicide.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
What are you talking about, you fool?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
All very simple.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
The sheriff came to arrest you, and you kill them.
Then you turn the gun on yourself.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Oh wait a minute, Paul, don't.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
It's done, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Paul?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Kurt is dead. You step over his body, press the
gun into his right hand.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Then you hurry up on deck and race down the
pier to a telephone. Five minutes later, the Peer is alive,
with excited villagers gathered around the still form of the sheriff.
Two of his deputies are bending over him.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
He'll be all right, coming around now, a bullet, just
Christy skull Gaalvin. Yes, come on, let's step aside for
a moment. Oh you were a little excited over the phone.
How did this happen?
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Well, I guess I'd got to start at the beginning.
I found out tonight that Uncle Kurt was involved in
the Lovetti affair, and I came down here to the
boat to ask him about it.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I found him getting ready to sail.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Go on.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Well, he admitted to me that he killed Mary Olavetti.
He pushed him over the cliffs because Lovetti had been
black knailing him.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
I see, so he was getting ready to make a
run for him.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Yeah, and then we heard a car stop outside and
Uncle Kurt rushed to the porthole, saw the sheriff coming
down the pier, and well before I could stop at me,
pulled out a gun and fired right through the porthole.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Fortunately his aim was bad. Come on, let's get aboard
the boat all right.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Then what happened, Well, after Uncle Kurt shot the sheriff,
he turned around and I thought he was going to
shoot me and steadied. He put the gun to his
head killed himself.
Speaker 13 (24:21):
Uh yeah, this way there he is, just the way
he fell. I haven't touched a thing.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Dave down here.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
The doc just got here.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Good sheriff, have anything to say?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
This slug hit him, he blacked out.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Well, I guess that's that. Looks like that closes the
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Speaker 2 (26:33):
As you stand there in the cabin of Kurt's boat
looking down on his body, you're sure you're in the clear,
aren't you, Paul, Certain that the deputy sheriff believes your story? Yes,
Kurt first tried to kill the sheriff, then turned the
gun on himself, committed suicide. And the deputy's own words,
it looks like that closes the Lovetti case.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
You turn away now and look up at.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Him, If you don't mind, I'd like to run along.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
I'm not judg a minute, Paul. Afraid I'm going to
have to ask you to come down the headquarters.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Headquarters. What's paraffine test? Ever hear of it? I want
to see if there any traces a gunpowder on your hand.
I think there will be.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
What are you driving there?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I'm pretty certain now that Kurt didn't fire that shot
at the sheriff, and that he didn't commit suicide.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Oh that's crazy, I tell you, hears.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
A pretty solid story you gave me, Paul, except for
one thing. You tell me. Your uncle was standing at
the porthole, fired a shot through it at the sheriff. Yes,
step over here, will you look? I don't know what
you're trying to pull. According to you, this all happened
not more than ten minutes ago.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Take a look out of the porthole.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Well, sure, but I don't understand what.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah, you're looking right at the pilings of the pier.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Now, oh no, it can't be.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
This porthole is at least two feet below the surface
of the pier. You didn't figure on the sea when
you dreamed up your story, did you, Paul. The tide's
been going.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Out for the last three hours.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
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The Cliffs at wayream.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
The early morning fog moved in and about the scene,
and swirling misty patches beneath it, adding its own lonely
rhythm of sound, was the sea. The cliffs rose high above,
dominating at all. But Paul Galvin and the sheriff were
oblivious to the cliffs, the weather, and the sound of
the sea. Their attentions were focused on the still limp
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form of the man who had been mari Olavetti. Paul
Galvin had made the discovery and sent for the sheriff.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Hmm, Marie Olivetti ever heard the name Bull?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
No, he's a complete me.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I'm sure he's a complete stranger to the village. You
wear him too. I know it's odd that he'd come
here to kill himself. Well, it could have been an accident.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I suppose.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
It looks like you've heel from a spot very close
to your place, Paul. Was mister Galvin expecting anyone last
night and he visited uncle Kurt?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
No, not that I know of.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Sheriff.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Of course, you can't come up to the house. We'll
ask him.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It might be a good idea, and anyway I can
call from up there have the body removed.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
Yeah, come on, we can take the path up the cliffs.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Struggling up the path, you smile to yourself, Paul, the
fact of Mariola that his strange death is going to
make a difference in your life.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Isn't it?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Yes, a big difference.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You're disappointed that your uncle Kurt Galvan is not in
the house when you arrive with the sheriff, but it
doesn't really matter. You let the sheriff use the telephone
for his cause. Finally bid him goodbye, and then hurry
down to the village. The cabin cruiser is tied up
alongside a small dock, just as you expected, and also
as you expected, Kurt is on board. You can hear
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him whistling as you approach. He's happily polishing the brass
work on the starboard rail.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Kurt, Uncle Kurt, Thanks, what brings you down here? There's
been an accident, Kurt, accident. Yeah, a man fell from
the cliffs. Happened during the night.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
It's a It's too bad.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Yeah, isn't it not only for mister Lovetti.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (03:40):
You know, Uncle Kurt. Things are going to be run
a little differently around the old homestead from now on,
very differently.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I should say, Oh, yes, you.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
See, I've I've wanted to take over the management of
the Galvin interest for some time. Now handle my own money.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
I think you're big enough to handle the do you.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
I was out on the cliff path last night. I
saw who pushed Mary Olivetti over. Well, the sheriff wants
to talk to you. I'll talk to him, but so
will I unless.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
Unless I let you start running things.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Forget it.
Speaker 9 (04:17):
Paul Mario Olivetti had the idea that he could change
things too for.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Both of us.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I don't understand.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Sit down, Paul. I think I've got a bit of
a shock for you. They're wasting your time, Kurt. We're
going to have an understanding, or I'll go to the police.
Speaker 8 (04:32):
Sit down, You have an understanding, A good.
Speaker 10 (04:37):
One, my pipe here. This is quite a story.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You know this.
Speaker 9 (04:48):
Mario Lavetti has spent some time in Italy, so he
ran into something very interesting over there. I never thought
i'd have to tell you, But you're not, Paul Galvin.
What no need to get excited, Paul. It's pretty simple.
When my brother and his wife were killed in that
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auto accident.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Over the well, that was twenty years ago, what that
got to do with it?
Speaker 8 (05:13):
Listen, will you?
Speaker 9 (05:14):
I went over to bring young Paul home. I was
to manage the estate till I thought he was old.
I know all about that, but you don't know, and
neither does anyone else. Young Paul died the fever at
the tender age of Paul.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
This is ridiculous. It's something you're inventing.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Oh no, I proof, don't worry. Proof that I picked
you up and passed you off as my nephew.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I don't believe it is he.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
I'd never had much money of my own.
Speaker 9 (05:46):
And well, I didn't want to lose control of the estate.
It's been a mighty comfortable arrangement for both us.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I'm not Paul Galvin.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
Your real name, if you're interested, is Angelo Quote. I
believe your father was a well digger or something like that,
old Geldon. That's why I had to get rid of
Mario Lavetti.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
That's why you killed him, shoved him off the cliff.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
Yes, you would have tried to change things too. You
were a wealthy man, Paul, but only is my nephew.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Otherwise you're nothing.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
You get the idea.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I give you enough, my.
Speaker 9 (06:27):
Boy, more than you could acquire any other way, unless,
of course, you want.
Speaker 11 (06:33):
To try working Skip that Kurt uncle. Now you're seeing
the light, eh. And you won't go running to the
police hardly, of course not.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
And I'll go right on.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
Running things, won't I.
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Speaker 2 (08:41):
Well, Paul, you're back in your same position. Your uncle
Kurtz told you that you're not Paul Galvin at all,
that he brought you from Italy as a child and
passed you off these many years, and now you can't
say or do anything about it. It doesn't seem possible,
does it, Paul, Especially as you stay in the great
hall of the house on the cliffs, stare up at
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a pair of oil paintings, which until now you believe
to be portraits of your own parents. And as you
stand there, one of the servants provides you with another
shot as he mentions what he thinks is simply a
bit of news to you.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yes, mister Paul, that's what I heard.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
That the Mario'lavetti wasn't alone in the village the other evening.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
And Nick, you say someone saw him driving in a car, Yes,
with a woman.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
The sheriff is trying to find it.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
He believes she might shed some light in the mystery.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Oh well, it's no mystery. A man falls or jumps
from a high place. Happens every day.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Oh yes, sir, I just thought you'd want to know
about it, sir.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yes, Paul, you do want to know about it.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
And Kurt must be informed right away, must be told
that there's someone else, a woman, who might have shared
the information that brought on mariolavetti sudden death. And then
you remember the Kurt is away on one of the
many trips he takes, and you curse his irresistible love
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for the sea. As long as you can remember, he
has come and gone with the tide, But his wanderings
might make such a difference At the moment, you wait
impatiently for the end of the week and Kurt's return,
and then hurry to the pier. Kurt's cruiser is tied
up there, but when you get aboard you find he's
already gone ashore. And then, from inside the cabin you
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happen to glance out a porthole stare puzzle at a
girl who's advancing along the pier towards you. You hurry
up on the deck and wait.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Looking for somebody.
Speaker 12 (10:47):
Oh no, I just saw this boat. She looks pretty.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
I like.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Oh, oh, step aboard if you like, sure, thank you.
Speaker 12 (11:00):
Oh my, she is a trim little craft.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (11:04):
I'm vacationing down here, right at the cottage.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
In the village. Oh, I'm a Paul Galvin.
Speaker 12 (11:12):
I'm either williams.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (11:15):
You have that big house on the cliffs, don't you. Why, Yes,
it's beautiful and this is your boat.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Oh it's my uncle's Kirk Galvin. But how did you
know I lived up there?
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (11:28):
The Galvin estate? You pointed out to me. There was
an accident several days ago. Wasn't there a man fell
off the cliffs?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yes, he was a stranger.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
You.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Uh, you didn't know him, know me?
Speaker 8 (11:43):
Why should I?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Oh, no reason.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
It's just that we don't have many visitors down here.
Speaker 12 (11:49):
I don't understand that. I like it here very much.
People are friendly. Ask other people aboard the booths.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I could be friendlier than that, Miss Williams.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Heva, Eva, Yeah, I'd like to show you about the place,
such as it is.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Perhaps tomorrow afternoon you'd care to have me drive into
the village you meet you.
Speaker 12 (12:13):
Oh, I'd like that very much.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
You you haven't a car yourself?
Speaker 12 (12:19):
No, No, I haven't.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Well, I'll drive in about two where you're.
Speaker 12 (12:23):
Staying at the Short Cottages number five.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Short Cottages, number five. I'll be there.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Eva.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
You're not quite sure of this, Eva Williams, are you?
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Paul?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
You have the strangest feeling when you first saw her
through the porthole of Kurt's boat that she was the one,
the missing woman who was with Mario Lavetti a short
while before he died. Later, talking with Kurt, you find
that he has little concern over the missing woman theory.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
It's ridiculous, Paul. Are you worried too much?
Speaker 7 (13:03):
But one of the villagers sallow that he was a woman, Kurt.
She was riding in a car with him, and she
might know as much as he did. I know who
gave that, because Ole Captain Dave. He's got the usual
imagination of the old sort. A few weeks back, he
reported a flying sauce.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Well, I thought you should know.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
I'm pleased you.
Speaker 10 (13:21):
Told me, Paul Cruse.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
You're aware of the situation that we're together in this.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Perhaps he's right about the mystery woman, Paul. Perhaps she
exists only in old Captain Dave's imagination. You meet Eia
the next day, and in the days that follow you'll
find yourself spending more and more time with her. She's
an attractive girl, isn't she, Paul, And you're becoming quite
fond of her, and sent somehow she's interested in you too. Then,
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late one evening, after dinner, the two of you sit
alone before the great fire place at the Inn, sipping
your drinks, listening to the storm outside.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
You've been kind of quiet all even. There's something on
your mind.
Speaker 12 (14:18):
Yes you want to talk about it, Yes, yes, I
guess I do.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
You know.
Speaker 12 (14:25):
It's funny sometimes the way things work out just the
way you expected. I knew a long time ago, Paul,
it would happen this week, and it has. What do
you mean, when the real thing came along? I know
it an instance. I knew it the day we met
at the boot.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Heeva, are you telling me.
Speaker 12 (14:49):
I'm in love with you? Paul, oh Eva, Paul, There's
something I've got to tell you. It's very important. My
name isn't Williams.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
It's Lovetti, Lovetti.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
That man found at the bottom.
Speaker 12 (15:13):
Of the cliffs my brother, I see. Yes, I was
with him that night. He'd asked me to drive him
down here. He got out of the car not far
from your house and told me to wait for him
in a village. And I waited all night, and next
morning I heard he'd been found at the cliffs.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
An accident. Of course, you know that path is rather treachius.
Speaker 12 (15:35):
I think it was an accident, Paul.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Oh, Mario was up to something.
Speaker 12 (15:41):
He wouldn't tell me what, but I had an idea
that whatever it was, it wasn't very honest. One thing
I do know he was to meet a man named Galvin.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
He told you that, yes, And.
Speaker 12 (15:54):
Then when I heard someone named Paul Galvin had found.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Him, I began to wonder, I'll see here he ye.
Speaker 12 (16:03):
That same morning, I drove back to town to Mario's apartment.
I didn't know what I was looking for, but well,
it was a hunch, and that's when I found the
letter letter addressed to Mariel. The letter indicated the writer
was willing to pay a certain sum of money that
a meeting was to be arranged. Mario was obviously blackmailing
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this man who signed the letter with a an initial k.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
K.
Speaker 12 (16:30):
That could be Kurt, couldn't it, Paul.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
My uncle?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Really? But you can't mean that, you think?
Speaker 12 (16:36):
Yes, that's why I came back here to see him instead.
I ran into you first, and it happened to.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Him, just like that book. Eva.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
I'm sure Kurt had nothing to do with your brother's death,
but that letter could make it look like you. Oh, darling, please,
you've got to destroy it.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
I'm afraid it's too late for that.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Paul, what do you mean?
Speaker 12 (16:59):
I mailed the letter to the Sheriff's office this morning.
Speaker 13 (17:04):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You know, this sudden turn and the tide of events
is the beginning of the end, don't you, Paul. You
sit there staring into the fire. Had had all gone
well until now happened it?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Paul.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
But now that Eva's mailed that letter to the sheriff,
you know it's only a matter of time before Kurt
is arrested. And when he is, you're certain he'll expose
you as an impostor. The Gallvant fortune will slip from
your grasp. You can't risk losing that fortune, can you, Paul?
You know now you'll do anything to say that.
Speaker 12 (17:39):
I'm sorry, Paul. I had to do it, as much
as I love you, knowing it could mean the end
of everything for.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Us, I had to do it.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You stalk out of the inn, leaving Eva without explanation,
get in your car and drive up the narrow to
the house on the cliffs. Suddenly you realize it's a
slim chance the sheriff hasn't yet received the letter. As
you reached the house and skid to a stop, you
find another car parked in the driveway, the Sheriff's car, Paul,
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and you know you're too late. Get out of the car,
look up to see the sheriff coming down the steps,
but he's alone.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Paul, PAULA, have you any idea of where Kurt is?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Kurt isn't he home?
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Hope your housekeepers had he left this afternoon?
Speaker 7 (18:30):
Oh, that's right, he did.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Did you say where he was going?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
No, he didn't say why, sheriffs is something important? It's
very important.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
Well, look, if you want to leave a message, i'd
I'll take care of it personally.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Good night.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
You remember, now, don't you?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Paul?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Kurt told you he was driving into the city having
dinner with an old friend tonight, but you couldn't tell
the sheriff. You hurry into the house the Kurt's desk
in the study. You're looking for the small black book
of telephone numbers when your hand closes over the gun
Kurt's gun, pick it up, stare at it, and suddenly
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a thought strikes you. You see your way out, don't you, Paul.
You slip the gun into your pocket and a moment
later put in your call to the city. Finally, Kurt's voice,
What is it, Paul, you'd better get back here as
soon as you can.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
Something's happened. Oh, the sheriff was here asking for you want.
I can't tell you now? How Look, I'll be waiting
for you at the boat. You'd better hurry. Oh, and Kurt,
don't let anyone see you.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
A quarter of an hour later, you step aboard Kurt's boat,
tied up along the end of the pier, and settled
down in the darkened cabin to wait. Time drags midnight,
there's still no sign of Kurt, and one o'clock two,
and the panic within you grows with each passing minute.
Finally you hurry off the boat, and if you start
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down the pier you see someone approaching.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Kurt.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
What kept you so long?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Fucked off?
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Five miles back Landslide had to take a detail.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Watch up that girl I told you about Eva.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
She's Lovetty's sister.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
She found a letter you'd written to Lovetty about the
young the blackmail and the.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Meeting with him.
Speaker 8 (20:38):
How does she know I wrote that letter? I always
signed my initial.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Yes. Well, she seems to figure that Kay stands for
Kurt and Lovetty told her he was meeting a man
named Galvin.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
That's not good, is it, Paul?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
He listen, You've got to get out of here right now.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
Yes, I suppose that would be the way I seem
to do. Of course, you understand, Paul, I'm there. It's
going to take money, a lot of money to run
and keep running. I'll expect you to send me whatever
amount I ask for from time to time.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Yes, yes, I'll take care of the curtain.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Be sure you do. You wouldn't want me to get caught,
would you? Come on, let's get aboard.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
You watch Kurt as he steps aboard the boat and
disappears into the cabin, and you know that, as long
as he's alive, your secret is in danger. There's always
the possibility he'll be caught someday and reveal you as
an impostor. And you don't want that, do your Paul.
You pull the gun out of your pocket, and as
you do, a car comes to a stop under the
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street light at the far end of the pier, the
Sheriff's car. Paul, You drop to one knee behind a
large packing case on the pier, your mind spinning furiously.
You've got to stop him.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Your next move must be, a move you're sure will
solve all your problem and enable you to take over
the Galvan estate immediately.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
The sheriff is halfway down.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
The pier when you pull the trigger. As he crumbles
on the Peer. You whirl, jump aboard the boat and
rush into the cabin.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
What the devil was that?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Who?
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Paul?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
What are you doing with that gun?
Speaker 7 (22:19):
You've just killed the sheriff, Uncle Kurt, and now you're
going to commit suicide.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
What are you talking about, you fool?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
All very simple.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
The sheriff came to arrest you, and you kill them.
Then you turn the gun on yourself.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Oh wait a minute, Paul, don't.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
It's done, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Paul?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Kurt is dead. You step over his body, press the
gun into his right hand.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Then you hurry up on deck and race down the
pier to a telephone. Five minutes later, the Peer is alive,
with excited villagers gathered around the still form of the sheriff.
Two of his deputies are bending over him.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
He'll be all right, coming around now, a bullet, just
Christy skull Gaalvin. Yes, come on, let's step aside for
a moment. Oh you were a little excited over the phone.
How did this happen?
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Well, I guess I'd got to start at the beginning.
I found out tonight that Uncle Kurt was involved in
the Lovetti affair, and I came down here to the
boat to ask him about it.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I found him getting ready to sail.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Go on.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Well, he admitted to me that he killed Mary Olavetti.
He pushed him over the cliffs because Lovetti had been
black knailing him.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
I see, so he was getting ready to make a
run for him.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Yeah, and then we heard a car stop outside and
Uncle Kurt rushed to the porthole, saw the sheriff coming
down the pier, and well before I could stop at me,
pulled out a gun and fired right through the porthole.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Fortunately his aim was bad. Come on, let's get aboard
the boat all right.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Then what happened, Well, after Uncle Kurt shot the sheriff,
he turned around and I thought he was going to
shoot me and steadied. He put the gun to his
head killed himself.
Speaker 13 (24:21):
Uh yeah, this way there he is, just the way
he fell. I haven't touched a thing.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Dave down here.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
The doc just got here.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Good sheriff, have anything to say?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
This slug hit him, he blacked out.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Well, I guess that's that. Looks like that closes the
Lovetti case. Here's some hot weather mathematics for drivers. Take
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the temperature of the day, add twenty eight hundred degrees
the temperature inside the cylinder head of the average motor.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
That adds up to a lot of heat. Good reason
why your motor needs the protection of the improved type
signal oil. It's engineered to stand up under heat. Signal
premium compounded motor oil. You see, in addition to its
one hundred percent pure paraffin base, signal premium contains scientific
compounds that do things which oil alone cannot do. One
(25:41):
of these compounds, for instance, keeps signal premium from breaking
down at high temperatures and forming harmful gum or vornish.
Another compound prevents bearing corrosion, and still another compound actually
removes carbon. That's why we call signal premium the oil
that does so much more than just loose brickade. So
(26:01):
if you want your motor to stay young, get your
next oil. Change at a signal station. Change to the
improved type signal oil that stands up under heat signal
premium compounded motor oil.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
As you stand there in the cabin of Kurt's boat
looking down on his body, you're sure you're in the clear,
aren't you, Paul, Certain that the deputy sheriff believes your story? Yes,
Kurt first tried to kill the sheriff, then turned the
gun on himself, committed suicide. And the deputy's own words,
it looks like that closes the Lovetti case.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
You turn away now and look up at.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Him, If you don't mind, I'd like to run along.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
I'm not judg a minute, Paul. Afraid I'm going to
have to ask you to come down the headquarters.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Headquarters. What's paraffine test? Ever hear of it? I want
to see if there any traces a gunpowder on your hand.
I think there will be.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
What are you driving there?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I'm pretty certain now that Kurt didn't fire that shot
at the sheriff, and that he didn't commit suicide.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Oh that's crazy, I tell you, hears.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
A pretty solid story you gave me, Paul, except for
one thing. You tell me. Your uncle was standing at
the porthole, fired a shot through it at the sheriff. Yes,
step over here, will you look? I don't know what
you're trying to pull. According to you, this all happened
not more than ten minutes ago.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Take a look out of the porthole.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Well, sure, but I don't understand what.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah, you're looking right at the pilings of the pier.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Now, oh no, it can't be.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
This porthole is at least two feet below the surface
of the pier. You didn't figure on the sea when
you dreamed up your story, did you, Paul. The tide's
been going.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Out for the last three hours.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil program.
The Whistler each Sunday night at the same time, brought
to you by the Signal Oil Company, marketers of Signal
Gasoline and motor oil and fine quality automotive accessories. Many drivers,
when buying gasoline forget what a big part of the
price goes for tax. In fact, in the average Western city,
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for every dollar you pay for gasoline itself, you pay
an additional thirty three cents in tax. So figure it up.
The tax you pay on three would buy you another
gallon free. Featured in Tonight's story were Bill Foreman, Jack Edwards,
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Joe Gilbert, and Leo Clearing. The Whistler was produced and
directed by George w Allen, with story by Adrian Jondeau,
music by Wilbur Hatch, and was transmitted to our troops
overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. The Whistler is
entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on the Whistler are
also fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance to persons
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living are dead is purely coincidental. Remember, at this same time,
next Sunday, another strange tale by the Whistler, Marvin Miller
speaking for the Signal Oil Company. This is the CBS,
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