September 22, 2025 • 29 mins
The Whistler was a suspenseful mystery anthology that ran from 1942-1955. A character known only as the Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate and had a suspenseful and eerie tone, always ending with a twist. The Whistler was later adapted to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now stay tuned for the mystery program that is
unique among all mystery programs, because even when you know
who is guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at
the final curtain. In the Signal Oil Program, the Whistler signal,
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the famous go Farther gasoline invite you to sit back
and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things. For
I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
in the high arts of men and women who have
stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors
of which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's Strange story.
Crippled Cross.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Ted Lucas stopped walking as the lights over the entrance
of a small apartment building highlighted on the words El Congo.
The expression on his tight drawn face seemed to relax
a little. He drew in his breath, then walked rapidly
to the doorway and inside, paused at the directory. There,
he ran his finger down the posted list of names until.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Claire Henderson, apartment to fourteen. Well, baby, I've finally found you.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yes, Ted, you found her. After six months of running hiding.
You've decided to do the one thing Claire wouldn't expect
you to do. Come out of hiding and find her
and make her pay for what she's done to you.
You take the stairs to the second floor, follow the
hall to apartment two fourteen and ring the bell. Jeff,
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the door's gone off, very darling, I'm just making a drink.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
You are early, Jeff.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I thought you said wrong on two counts. Baby, I'm
not Jeff, and I'm not early. I'm about six months late.
Ted Lucas, it's a meta, Claire. Aren't you glad to
see me? Ted? Oh? Are you're just disappointed because I'm
not Jeff? I find you. I just looked. Yeah. Thanks,
I think I will sit down. That's a nice little
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farm you have here. You must grow a lot of berries. Huh.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Why have a pretty good job?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I bet you do. Claire Henderson, working girl. Where do
you work? Oh? I should say who?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I'm secretary to Charles Seaton of the Diamond Importer.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
That's right, Well, it was very clever of you. I
wonder you gotta lay out like this. The old man
probably gives you a sack of old diamonds every now
and then, huh, Or maybe my thirty grand brought all
this fancy stuff.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
You think I'd be stupid enough to spend your money.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It had occurred to me, but I didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Really, I've been worried about you ever since you lost.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Oh you sounded worried when I got here. Come in, Jeff,
the door's unlocked. I'm just mixing drinks.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
But I have been worried.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Oh so worried. You couldn't even get in touch with me. Huh.
So concerned about me. You wouldn't even send me my
share of that payroll job we pulled. Come on, ond Claire.
That was a sixty thousand dollars knockoff. Where's my hat?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I was afraid to see it. The police were looking.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
For very smooth baby. That's why I didn't take my
cut that night. Remember, So if the law caught up
with me, I wouldn't have the money on me. You,
miss Mastermind, had it the whole sixty grand you were
supposed to send me. Half man, What a chump?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I was, said, You're all wrong.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
You had three months to send me that thirty thousand. Well,
I was in that little spot near the border you
had my address, you didn't send it. I know I'd
figured I couldn't stay in one place very long, and
you figured I'd be afraid to come back here. Well,
I want my thirty grand I want it fast, of
course you do.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
And I've kept it for you. What I said, I've
kept your half of the money for you.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, when do I get it?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Tomorrow morning, as soon as the bank.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Opens, tomorrow morning, as soon as the bank open.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And there's just one thing about it.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh, I thought that, what's the catch?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
No cat with my connections working for mister s.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I had a chance to make a good investment in
diamonds a couple of months back, about thirty thousand dollars
worth for you.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
They're in my safety deposit box.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Now, wasn't that thoughtful?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
More thoughtful than you realized. I'm in markets jumped a
little since then. You will make a little profit when
you cash them in.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You know there's something wrong with this, Claire. I don't
know what it is yet, but but.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
You still don't trust me. It's not hard to understand.
Ted you decided months ago I double crossed you. You thought
about nothing.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Else since then. Now you've found out I haven't. And
you just can't believe that's all.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I don't get this sudden interest in my welfare.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You were very.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Short memory, Dad, I know, different than I was when
you left. Can't you remember how I was then?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I was so sure you'd run out of me. I
still don't get you.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
You won't have to wait much longer to not Ted.
Just meet me at the bank tomorrow morning at ten.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I won't have to meet you, Claire, I'll be with you.
What do you mean I'm staying here tonight on that couch,
stay in the living room. Yeah, Oh, it isn't that
I don't trust you. It's just that, well, it took
me so long to find you. I just can't stand
to let you out of my sight.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Jem.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
And that's five straight games you won. Looks like you
can beat me at any game, Manhett, I don't let
me keep you up. Anytime you feel like turning in
for the night, you go right ahead. But you I
told you, I told you. I'm staying after the places
I've been sleeping. The couch looks like the Governor's sweet
to me, say Claire, I'm still wondering what happened to
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your boyfriend Jeff. Yeah, sort of stood, yet tonight looks
like it doesn't.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
He's nobody did, just a guy. You're all a boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I mean, go on hit the Hey, Claire, this is
a business called pure business.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Okay, Dad, that's the way you want it. I'll see
you in the morning.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
You sure will.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Oh oh. You stare at the front door of the
apartment and startle silence. Your first impulse is to answer
the door. Isn't it ten, but you quickly realize you
can't be seen. Could be only Jeff, Claire's date for
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the evening, but it might be someone else.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Ted.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You realize you might have been followed. The police could
have picked up your trail and want to talk about
the payroll robbery. You move quickly through the apartment to
the kitchen. There you find a service entrance into the
main hall. Silently, you open the door peer out at
the figure standing with his back to you at Claire's
front door. Just a man in a dark suit, ted.
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Nothing distinguishing about him, but you take a good long
look at him. Then close the door noiselessly, and in
a short time you hear his footsteps fading down the hall.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Then say, where are you?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
In the kitchen, Claire, you got any milk?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Did I hear a knock on the door?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
No? No, I hit a table on the way to
the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You wait in the kitchen until you hear Claire go
into the bedroom and close the door. You're still not
sure of her, are you ted? The man at the
door was probably Jeff, Claire's friend, but you don't know.
You return to the living room systematically turn off all
the lights, then move for the front window, which overlooks
the street. It's almost deserted, isn't it ted? And then
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your eye catches the figure of a man standing across
the street, leaning against the lamp post and looking up
toward Claire's apartment.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Same guy, same guy was here.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
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Speaker 2 (10:56):
You're puzzle, don't you, ted strangely puzzle, Yes too, You've
learned to be wary in the six months you've been
hiding after the payroll robbery which you and Claire Henderson
planned and carried out. But it's more than that, now,
isn't it tied? Everything about your return seems strange ominous. First,
it was Claire calmly announcing that she hadn't spent your
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thirty thousand dollars cut at all, that she'd invested it
in diamonds for you, and that you'd even make a profit.
Then that knock on the door, the man in the
dark suit who later took up a post across the
street and watch Claire's apartment. You don't know who he is,
do you, Ted?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
What he wants? All through the long night you sit
there in the darkness of Claire's living room, turning the
whole situation over in your mind. Shortly before morning you
doze off. It's nearly ten o'clock when you awake with
a start.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Te wake out.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Oh oh to you, Claire. It must have fallen.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Asleep, but wisely sitting up in a chair. I thought
the couch impressed you.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
It changed my mind. Hey, hey, wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
What on earth is the matter with you?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Jed?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
What do you expect to see out of the window?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I don't know, Never mind, no one's out there now anyway.
It's funny, what nothing? You're ready? Yeah? Well, and come on,
I s do that bit at the bank where you
deliver my thirty thousand in diamonds.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Still don't trust me, do you?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
No?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Not yet.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
All the way downtown in the taxi, you divide your
time between studying Claire and trying to determine whether or
not you're being followed. Finally, satisfied that no one is
trailing you, you try to reconcile Claire's smiling confidence with
the fact that she's about to deliver to you thirty
thousand dollars in diamonds. It doesn't make sense, does it.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Tip.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Even as the two of you enter the bank and
walk to the safe deposit box section, you are still
goaded with the fishing and distrust.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Stop looking so intense to it.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
If I didn't know better, I think you had plans
to blow the bank.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
The buzz over the vault make me nervous and quit
ed living. Let's get this thing over with me.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I help you. Oh ho lo, Miss Henderson.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Oh, I'd like to get into my safety deposit box.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Please. We're just to sign a card, Miss Anderson.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Then I and this way, please, you don't mind waiting.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
For me out here?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Why should I? You've got to come out this way.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You look up with a sense of relief as Claire
walks toward you smilingly takes your arm. The two of
you walk from the bank and hail a taxi. After
the cabs underway, Claire silently hands you a packet. You
open it find an impressive collection of diamonds inside.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Trust me not, mister Seton must be very proud of you.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
What kind of a crack is that?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
If my trained eye is still in training, you have
excellent taste in diamonds.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I have excellent taste period.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah, I'm not sure, but this calls for a drink,
maybe just maybe before noon? Eh, time is relative? You
gotta particular hang out these days? Or will the soothsayer
through the trick?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I haven't been there six months?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, by an odd coincidence, neither of I. Hey, driver,
drop us at the sooth sayers? What in.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I keep waiting for it, but I.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Never hear it, waiting for and never hear what your apology?
Apology just for thinking you devil cross me?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
M hey.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Don't get carried away though, because I buy you a
drink and flashy one of my bettert smiles, it doesn't
mean I like.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
What's the matter.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It's that guy m the same guy I saw last night.
I listen, listen, don't act like anything's wrong. Keep sipping
your drink when I give you a cue. Take a
look at the guy in the docks suit at the
end of the bar. Tell me if you recognize him. Okay,
could be your boy Jeff. You know wherever he is.
I'm pretty sure he's following me there. See he's looked
away from a minute quickly.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Annoy No, No, I don't did.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You'd better be sure, baby, because if that is your boyfriend,
and this is some kind of a trick.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Out, no trick to get honestly.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
We'll see anyway. You better be rambling along, but you'll
see me later, baby, that's a promise.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
As Claire gets up walks from the bar, you keep
your eyes fastened on the man. You feel certain it's trailing.
You're certain this is the same man who knocked at
Claire's door last night, and you're determined now to sell
the diamonds before they cause you any more trouble. He's
still standing with his back to you as you get up,
quickly hurry unnoticed through the door behind you to the
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back hall, which leads to the rear entrance on an alleyway.
Once there, you into a dead run to the next
corner and hurriedly hail a passing taxi. After a few blocks,
you're certain you've lost the man you're sure was trailing.
You're driven to the office of an old friend, just a.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Moment, hurried up? Markal Okay, okay, Well well Ted Lucas,
long time no see look away alone like lovers? Where
you've been?
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Ted?
Speaker 7 (16:40):
I haven't seen you.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Since the last time.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Markall.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
We really must get together and have a nice long
chat reel soon. Right now, I want you to wrap
your good eye around that jeweler's glass and tell me
a nice story about these.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
You've been heisting. Precious stones.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
They're a gift. Come on, marcle, hurry it up.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Okay, okay, let's see now. Hm ah, you know what
tend These are diamonds, real fine diamonds they are.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Now that much is good. Now, how about you got
another friend like me?
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Ted?
Speaker 7 (17:21):
What do you mean, where's the rest of the load,
I'll come You're just trying to dump this mutch on me.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Well this is all I've got. Come on, how much margam? Now?
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Look, don't try to chump me, Ted, because if I
unload these for you, I'll be doing you a big favor.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Big.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
What do you mean? What's wrong with them? You said
they were fine stones?
Speaker 7 (17:40):
They are fine and uh hot too, the hot plenty hot.
This is only part of that seatan job a couple
of nights ago.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Seatan Seatan the diamond importers.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Yeah yeah, seatans Ah, very smooth job, Teddy boy, you've
got the cops baffled.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Eh, listen, Marcle. How much are they worth? These here?
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Well, as they stand right now, about thirty five grand.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
But to fence them, I'll have to cut.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Them, and then they don't bring so much, maybe only
twenty or so. I see you better level with me, Ted,
haul out the rest of that seat and load and
then maybe we can do business. But I won't handle
any of it unless I handle it all. It's too dangerous.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, yeah, well, I guess you're right, Marchael. Okay, I'll
take these along and get the rest of the diamonds
for you. Didn't expect to find you in Claire or
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are you just in the middle of packing packing?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
I don't know what you're talking about. I just got home.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Well, so did I sit down?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Sit down?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You know, I really admire you. You've really got talent.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
I don't know what you're talking.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Took me a while, baby, but I finally caught on
for good this time telling me you worked its seatons man,
how you worked there?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
But I did, Ted, I did I quit a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Ago and maybe got sixty seventy five thousand bucks and
diamonds for severance pay? Sure you did. That's where your
boy Jeff came in, isn't it. You probably did the
dirty work for you, just like I did on the
payroll job. I showed up. He's been dogging my trail.
He was gonna put me away for you. It wasn't he.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Brighter, No, Ted, nothing like that. Would you let me
tell you?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Tell me and be quick?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Right? All right? We did do the Seaton job, Jeff
and I. But the rest of it isn't true. I
had no idea you were anywhere around beside. You got
your old cut. Those diamonds I gave you away at
these thirty five.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Thousand, I'd won. They're cut, and they gotta be cut.
A marker won't fence him. Aware of the rest.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I don't have them, Ted, Jeff has not.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
If I know you, he hasn't. You don't work that way.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
No, Ted, I don't. This is I work.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Oh you play with guns too?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Oh when I have to? And now get out, or
I'll give you your real cut, sure.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Baby, I'll I will play my way where do I
find Jeff talk fast.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Claire, okay, okay? At the dead Knoms apartment one.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
O seven one O seven, dead Narms.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Eh.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I hope you're telling the truth for you you better be.
If not, I'll be back and pay you off, really
pay you off.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
You take Claire's gun, leave the apartment, and then hurriedly
double back to the service entrance to the kitchen and
silently try the door. It opens. You slipped noiselessly into
the kitchen just in time to hear Claire on the
phone giving out all the information you need.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Now, please don't ask any more questions. There isn't time.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I tell you. We just left.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Yes, he's on his way there right now. Hurry.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I thought you weren't going anywhere, baby, wanting your boyfriend.
I was coming to see him, figuring on making a
quick getaway. Why don't you pack everything and run for it?
Last chance? Baby? I want the rest of those diamonds.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Oh do you?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
I don't have them?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Okay, baby, have it your own way.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Not dead please, no.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I will see your boyfriend at the Dent and Arms.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
After shooting Claire, you slip her gun into your pocket
and hurry out the back way of the apartment. The
dent and Arms is less than three blocks away, and
you decide it's safer to walk the distance swallowed up
in the late afternoon traffic. Your confidence grows with each step.
You'll get the diamonds now ted, all of them, just
one more obstacle in your way, Jeff, and you're certain
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that won't take long. Then you'll make a quick deal
with Markle and leave town. You'll enter the side of
the Denton Arms, blink at the late afternoon darkness of
the halls, make your way to apartment one oh seven.
You listen at the door, no sound, and then hearing
a sound down the hall, you step quickly into a
recess in the wall by the door. A man walks
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toward Apartment one oh seven, slows his pace just before
he reaches it. It's the same man, isn't it, Tip,
the man in the dark suit who has been following.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Okay, you covered, Hey, what is it? We'll talk inside.
It's cozier and I'll give you a clue. We'll talk
about diamonds. Okay, you say so, come on, open up? Hi, Yes,
I forgot my Keith in that very bright are you
try the knob? Maybe you left it unlocked inside a
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smart boy. We're going to talk business, you and me.
It looks like you've got me. You bet I, I've
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Speaker 2 (24:38):
Well, Ted, you're beginning to track down and overcome all
the obstacles, aren't you. With Claire out of the way,
shot with her own gun, you have now only to
deal with Jeff for accomplice, get the rest of the
diamonds from him, and get out of town before anyone
knows you've returned. You're certain you'll be able to contact
Mark later and dispose of it. Now, you usher the
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man who's been trailing you into Apartment one oh seven
of the Denton Arms at the point of Claire's gun.
It's nearly dusk now, and you fumble with your free
hand to turn on a lamp.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Okay, I haven't got much time. Let's have the diamonds.
What diamond as Satan diamonds to match these have got
with me?
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Okay just a minute, Hey, wait a minute, Look at this?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
What is this?
Speaker 6 (25:30):
You don't know?
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Looks very much like a corpse to me. Let's see
now the paper's on him, say Jeff, Jeff.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Heally, and he's really dead shot Jeff, he's Jeff.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
As if you.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Didn't know, I didn't I thought you were.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
So this is where you came this afternoon when you
got away from me.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
No, I, who are you?
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Lenton's the name, Detective Robbie Division. I had better hand
over that, Don Locas. Thanks, that's better, But I don't
get it.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
You've been following me around it ever since.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
I happened to see you go into the old Congo
apartments the other night, though, i'd see what you were
up to before I talk to you about that payroll
job here. We think you pull it about six months ago.
Looks like you've branched out since then. Huh into diamonds
and murders.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (26:22):
The seat and diamond job?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
You're wrong.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I didn't do that seating job. It was a Dame
Claire Henderson and this guy Jeff Healy. She double crossed
me before. Now she's double crossed him permanently.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Could be, but you were pretty sure, Jeff. It's some
more diamonds Locus. Well, there's none on them now. Maybe
I better take a look around the apartment.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Won't do any good. Claire Henderson, she had them even
when I how did you happen to come here? You
said i'd shaken you off.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
A woman called headquarters. A woman.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
Yeah, she said, have we come to the D and
MS Apartment one or seven with I'm a seating faith
and the murderer looks like she was right.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
She was phoning the cops the little I didn't do
what I tell you?
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Maybe not.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
But if you've got the diamonds on you like you said,
and if this gun is the one that killed Jeff here,
you've got an awful lot of explaining it is.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
I tell you it was Claire Henderson. She was planning
on skipping town and framing me.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Maybe she wasn't that. Look, I'll give you a break, Locus.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
Suppose you take me over the sea and we'll find
out what she has to say.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
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Speaker 2 (00:52):
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Crippled Cross.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Ted Lucas stopped walking as the lights over the entrance
of a small apartment building highlighted on the words El Congo.
The expression on his tight drawn face seemed to relax
a little. He drew in his breath, then walked rapidly
to the doorway and inside, paused at the directory. There,
he ran his finger down the posted list of names until.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Claire Henderson, apartment to fourteen. Well, baby, I've finally found you.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yes, Ted, you found her. After six months of running hiding.
You've decided to do the one thing Claire wouldn't expect
you to do. Come out of hiding and find her
and make her pay for what she's done to you.
You take the stairs to the second floor, follow the
hall to apartment two fourteen and ring the bell. Jeff,
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the door's gone off, very darling, I'm just making a drink.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
You are early, Jeff.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I thought you said wrong on two counts. Baby, I'm
not Jeff, and I'm not early. I'm about six months late.
Ted Lucas, it's a meta, Claire. Aren't you glad to
see me? Ted? Oh? Are you're just disappointed because I'm
not Jeff? I find you. I just looked. Yeah. Thanks,
I think I will sit down. That's a nice little
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farm you have here. You must grow a lot of berries. Huh.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Why have a pretty good job?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I bet you do. Claire Henderson, working girl. Where do
you work? Oh? I should say who?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I'm secretary to Charles Seaton of the Diamond Importer.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
That's right, Well, it was very clever of you. I
wonder you gotta lay out like this. The old man
probably gives you a sack of old diamonds every now
and then, huh, Or maybe my thirty grand brought all
this fancy stuff.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
You think I'd be stupid enough to spend your money.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It had occurred to me, but I didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Really, I've been worried about you ever since you lost.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Oh you sounded worried when I got here. Come in, Jeff,
the door's unlocked. I'm just mixing drinks.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
But I have been worried.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Oh so worried. You couldn't even get in touch with me. Huh.
So concerned about me. You wouldn't even send me my
share of that payroll job we pulled. Come on, ond Claire.
That was a sixty thousand dollars knockoff. Where's my hat?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I was afraid to see it. The police were looking.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
For very smooth baby. That's why I didn't take my
cut that night. Remember, So if the law caught up
with me, I wouldn't have the money on me. You,
miss Mastermind, had it the whole sixty grand you were
supposed to send me. Half man, What a chump?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I was, said, You're all wrong.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
You had three months to send me that thirty thousand. Well,
I was in that little spot near the border you
had my address, you didn't send it. I know I'd
figured I couldn't stay in one place very long, and
you figured I'd be afraid to come back here. Well,
I want my thirty grand I want it fast, of
course you do.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
And I've kept it for you. What I said, I've
kept your half of the money for you.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, when do I get it?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Tomorrow morning, as soon as the bank.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Opens, tomorrow morning, as soon as the bank open.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And there's just one thing about it.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh, I thought that, what's the catch?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
No cat with my connections working for mister s.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I had a chance to make a good investment in
diamonds a couple of months back, about thirty thousand dollars
worth for you.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
They're in my safety deposit box.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Now, wasn't that thoughtful?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
More thoughtful than you realized. I'm in markets jumped a
little since then. You will make a little profit when
you cash them in.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You know there's something wrong with this, Claire. I don't
know what it is yet, but but.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
You still don't trust me. It's not hard to understand.
Ted you decided months ago I double crossed you. You thought
about nothing.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Else since then. Now you've found out I haven't. And
you just can't believe that's all.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I don't get this sudden interest in my welfare.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You were very.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Short memory, Dad, I know, different than I was when
you left. Can't you remember how I was then?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I was so sure you'd run out of me. I
still don't get you.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
You won't have to wait much longer to not Ted.
Just meet me at the bank tomorrow morning at ten.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I won't have to meet you, Claire, I'll be with you.
What do you mean I'm staying here tonight on that couch,
stay in the living room. Yeah, Oh, it isn't that
I don't trust you. It's just that, well, it took
me so long to find you. I just can't stand
to let you out of my sight.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Jem.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
And that's five straight games you won. Looks like you
can beat me at any game, Manhett, I don't let
me keep you up. Anytime you feel like turning in
for the night, you go right ahead. But you I
told you, I told you. I'm staying after the places
I've been sleeping. The couch looks like the Governor's sweet
to me, say Claire, I'm still wondering what happened to
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your boyfriend Jeff. Yeah, sort of stood, yet tonight looks
like it doesn't.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
He's nobody did, just a guy. You're all a boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I mean, go on hit the Hey, Claire, this is
a business called pure business.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Okay, Dad, that's the way you want it. I'll see
you in the morning.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
You sure will.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Oh oh. You stare at the front door of the
apartment and startle silence. Your first impulse is to answer
the door. Isn't it ten, but you quickly realize you
can't be seen. Could be only Jeff, Claire's date for
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the evening, but it might be someone else.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Ted.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You realize you might have been followed. The police could
have picked up your trail and want to talk about
the payroll robbery. You move quickly through the apartment to
the kitchen. There you find a service entrance into the
main hall. Silently, you open the door peer out at
the figure standing with his back to you at Claire's
front door. Just a man in a dark suit, ted.
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Nothing distinguishing about him, but you take a good long
look at him. Then close the door noiselessly, and in
a short time you hear his footsteps fading down the hall.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Then say, where are you?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
In the kitchen, Claire, you got any milk?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Did I hear a knock on the door?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
No? No, I hit a table on the way to
the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You wait in the kitchen until you hear Claire go
into the bedroom and close the door. You're still not
sure of her, are you ted? The man at the
door was probably Jeff, Claire's friend, but you don't know.
You return to the living room systematically turn off all
the lights, then move for the front window, which overlooks
the street. It's almost deserted, isn't it ted? And then
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your eye catches the figure of a man standing across
the street, leaning against the lamp post and looking up
toward Claire's apartment.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Same guy, same guy was here.
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Speaker 2 (10:56):
You're puzzle, don't you, ted strangely puzzle, Yes too, You've
learned to be wary in the six months you've been
hiding after the payroll robbery which you and Claire Henderson
planned and carried out. But it's more than that, now,
isn't it tied? Everything about your return seems strange ominous. First,
it was Claire calmly announcing that she hadn't spent your
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thirty thousand dollars cut at all, that she'd invested it
in diamonds for you, and that you'd even make a profit.
Then that knock on the door, the man in the
dark suit who later took up a post across the
street and watch Claire's apartment. You don't know who he is,
do you, Ted?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
What he wants? All through the long night you sit
there in the darkness of Claire's living room, turning the
whole situation over in your mind. Shortly before morning you
doze off. It's nearly ten o'clock when you awake with
a start.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Te wake out.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Oh oh to you, Claire. It must have fallen.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Asleep, but wisely sitting up in a chair. I thought
the couch impressed you.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
It changed my mind. Hey, hey, wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
What on earth is the matter with you?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Jed?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
What do you expect to see out of the window?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I don't know, Never mind, no one's out there now anyway.
It's funny, what nothing? You're ready? Yeah? Well, and come on,
I s do that bit at the bank where you
deliver my thirty thousand in diamonds.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Still don't trust me, do you?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
No?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Not yet.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
All the way downtown in the taxi, you divide your
time between studying Claire and trying to determine whether or
not you're being followed. Finally, satisfied that no one is
trailing you, you try to reconcile Claire's smiling confidence with
the fact that she's about to deliver to you thirty
thousand dollars in diamonds. It doesn't make sense, does it.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Tip.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Even as the two of you enter the bank and
walk to the safe deposit box section, you are still
goaded with the fishing and distrust.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Stop looking so intense to it.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
If I didn't know better, I think you had plans
to blow the bank.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
The buzz over the vault make me nervous and quit
ed living. Let's get this thing over with me.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I help you. Oh ho lo, Miss Henderson.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Oh, I'd like to get into my safety deposit box.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Please. We're just to sign a card, Miss Anderson.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Then I and this way, please, you don't mind waiting.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
For me out here?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Why should I? You've got to come out this way.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You look up with a sense of relief as Claire
walks toward you smilingly takes your arm. The two of
you walk from the bank and hail a taxi. After
the cabs underway, Claire silently hands you a packet. You
open it find an impressive collection of diamonds inside.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Trust me not, mister Seton must be very proud of you.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
What kind of a crack is that?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
If my trained eye is still in training, you have
excellent taste in diamonds.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I have excellent taste period.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah, I'm not sure, but this calls for a drink,
maybe just maybe before noon? Eh, time is relative? You
gotta particular hang out these days? Or will the soothsayer
through the trick?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I haven't been there six months?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, by an odd coincidence, neither of I. Hey, driver,
drop us at the sooth sayers? What in.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I keep waiting for it, but I.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Never hear it, waiting for and never hear what your apology?
Apology just for thinking you devil cross me?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
M hey.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Don't get carried away though, because I buy you a
drink and flashy one of my bettert smiles, it doesn't
mean I like.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
What's the matter.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It's that guy m the same guy I saw last night.
I listen, listen, don't act like anything's wrong. Keep sipping
your drink when I give you a cue. Take a
look at the guy in the docks suit at the
end of the bar. Tell me if you recognize him. Okay,
could be your boy Jeff. You know wherever he is.
I'm pretty sure he's following me there. See he's looked
away from a minute quickly.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Annoy No, No, I don't did.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You'd better be sure, baby, because if that is your boyfriend,
and this is some kind of a trick.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Out, no trick to get honestly.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
We'll see anyway. You better be rambling along, but you'll
see me later, baby, that's a promise.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
As Claire gets up walks from the bar, you keep
your eyes fastened on the man. You feel certain it's trailing.
You're certain this is the same man who knocked at
Claire's door last night, and you're determined now to sell
the diamonds before they cause you any more trouble. He's
still standing with his back to you as you get up,
quickly hurry unnoticed through the door behind you to the
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back hall, which leads to the rear entrance on an alleyway.
Once there, you into a dead run to the next
corner and hurriedly hail a passing taxi. After a few blocks,
you're certain you've lost the man you're sure was trailing.
You're driven to the office of an old friend, just a.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Moment, hurried up? Markal Okay, okay, Well well Ted Lucas,
long time no see look away alone like lovers? Where
you've been?
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Ted?
Speaker 7 (16:40):
I haven't seen you.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Since the last time.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Markall.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
We really must get together and have a nice long
chat reel soon. Right now, I want you to wrap
your good eye around that jeweler's glass and tell me
a nice story about these.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
You've been heisting. Precious stones.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
They're a gift. Come on, marcle, hurry it up.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Okay, okay, let's see now. Hm ah, you know what
tend These are diamonds, real fine diamonds they are.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Now that much is good. Now, how about you got
another friend like me?
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Ted?
Speaker 7 (17:21):
What do you mean, where's the rest of the load,
I'll come You're just trying to dump this mutch on me.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Well this is all I've got. Come on, how much margam? Now?
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Look, don't try to chump me, Ted, because if I
unload these for you, I'll be doing you a big favor.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Big.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
What do you mean? What's wrong with them? You said
they were fine stones?
Speaker 7 (17:40):
They are fine and uh hot too, the hot plenty hot.
This is only part of that seatan job a couple
of nights ago.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Seatan Seatan the diamond importers.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Yeah yeah, seatans Ah, very smooth job, Teddy boy, you've
got the cops baffled.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Eh, listen, Marcle. How much are they worth? These here?
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Well, as they stand right now, about thirty five grand.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
But to fence them, I'll have to cut.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Them, and then they don't bring so much, maybe only
twenty or so. I see you better level with me, Ted,
haul out the rest of that seat and load and
then maybe we can do business. But I won't handle
any of it unless I handle it all. It's too dangerous.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, yeah, well, I guess you're right, Marchael. Okay, I'll
take these along and get the rest of the diamonds
for you. Didn't expect to find you in Claire or
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are you just in the middle of packing packing?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
I don't know what you're talking about. I just got home.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Well, so did I sit down?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Sit down?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You know, I really admire you. You've really got talent.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
I don't know what you're talking.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Took me a while, baby, but I finally caught on
for good this time telling me you worked its seatons man,
how you worked there?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
But I did, Ted, I did I quit a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Ago and maybe got sixty seventy five thousand bucks and
diamonds for severance pay? Sure you did. That's where your
boy Jeff came in, isn't it. You probably did the
dirty work for you, just like I did on the
payroll job. I showed up. He's been dogging my trail.
He was gonna put me away for you. It wasn't he.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Brighter, No, Ted, nothing like that. Would you let me
tell you?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Tell me and be quick?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Right? All right? We did do the Seaton job, Jeff
and I. But the rest of it isn't true. I
had no idea you were anywhere around beside. You got
your old cut. Those diamonds I gave you away at
these thirty five.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Thousand, I'd won. They're cut, and they gotta be cut.
A marker won't fence him. Aware of the rest.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I don't have them, Ted, Jeff has not.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
If I know you, he hasn't. You don't work that way.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
No, Ted, I don't. This is I work.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Oh you play with guns too?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Oh when I have to? And now get out, or
I'll give you your real cut, sure.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Baby, I'll I will play my way where do I
find Jeff talk fast.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Claire, okay, okay? At the dead Knoms apartment one.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
O seven one O seven, dead Narms.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Eh.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I hope you're telling the truth for you you better be.
If not, I'll be back and pay you off, really
pay you off.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
You take Claire's gun, leave the apartment, and then hurriedly
double back to the service entrance to the kitchen and
silently try the door. It opens. You slipped noiselessly into
the kitchen just in time to hear Claire on the
phone giving out all the information you need.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Now, please don't ask any more questions. There isn't time.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I tell you. We just left.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Yes, he's on his way there right now. Hurry.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I thought you weren't going anywhere, baby, wanting your boyfriend.
I was coming to see him, figuring on making a
quick getaway. Why don't you pack everything and run for it?
Last chance? Baby? I want the rest of those diamonds.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Oh do you?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
I don't have them?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Okay, baby, have it your own way.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Not dead please, no.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I will see your boyfriend at the Dent and Arms.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
After shooting Claire, you slip her gun into your pocket
and hurry out the back way of the apartment. The
dent and Arms is less than three blocks away, and
you decide it's safer to walk the distance swallowed up
in the late afternoon traffic. Your confidence grows with each step.
You'll get the diamonds now ted, all of them, just
one more obstacle in your way, Jeff, and you're certain
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that won't take long. Then you'll make a quick deal
with Markle and leave town. You'll enter the side of
the Denton Arms, blink at the late afternoon darkness of
the halls, make your way to apartment one oh seven.
You listen at the door, no sound, and then hearing
a sound down the hall, you step quickly into a
recess in the wall by the door. A man walks
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toward Apartment one oh seven, slows his pace just before
he reaches it. It's the same man, isn't it, Tip,
the man in the dark suit who has been following.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Okay, you covered, Hey, what is it? We'll talk inside.
It's cozier and I'll give you a clue. We'll talk
about diamonds. Okay, you say so, come on, open up? Hi, Yes,
I forgot my Keith in that very bright are you
try the knob? Maybe you left it unlocked inside a
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smart boy. We're going to talk business, you and me.
It looks like you've got me. You bet I, I've
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Speaker 2 (24:38):
Well, Ted, you're beginning to track down and overcome all
the obstacles, aren't you. With Claire out of the way,
shot with her own gun, you have now only to
deal with Jeff for accomplice, get the rest of the
diamonds from him, and get out of town before anyone
knows you've returned. You're certain you'll be able to contact
Mark later and dispose of it. Now, you usher the
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man who's been trailing you into Apartment one oh seven
of the Denton Arms at the point of Claire's gun.
It's nearly dusk now, and you fumble with your free
hand to turn on a lamp.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Okay, I haven't got much time. Let's have the diamonds.
What diamond as Satan diamonds to match these have got
with me?
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Okay just a minute, Hey, wait a minute, Look at this?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
What is this?
Speaker 6 (25:30):
You don't know?
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Looks very much like a corpse to me. Let's see
now the paper's on him, say Jeff, Jeff.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Heally, and he's really dead shot Jeff, he's Jeff.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
As if you.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Didn't know, I didn't I thought you were.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
So this is where you came this afternoon when you
got away from me.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
No, I, who are you?
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Lenton's the name, Detective Robbie Division. I had better hand
over that, Don Locas. Thanks, that's better, But I don't
get it.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
You've been following me around it ever since.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
I happened to see you go into the old Congo
apartments the other night, though, i'd see what you were
up to before I talk to you about that payroll
job here. We think you pull it about six months ago.
Looks like you've branched out since then. Huh into diamonds
and murders.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (26:22):
The seat and diamond job?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
You're wrong.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I didn't do that seating job. It was a Dame
Claire Henderson and this guy Jeff Healy. She double crossed
me before. Now she's double crossed him permanently.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Could be, but you were pretty sure, Jeff. It's some
more diamonds Locus. Well, there's none on them now. Maybe
I better take a look around the apartment.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Won't do any good. Claire Henderson, she had them even
when I how did you happen to come here? You
said i'd shaken you off.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
A woman called headquarters. A woman.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
Yeah, she said, have we come to the D and
MS Apartment one or seven with I'm a seating faith
and the murderer looks like she was right.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
She was phoning the cops the little I didn't do
what I tell you?
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Maybe not.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
But if you've got the diamonds on you like you said,
and if this gun is the one that killed Jeff here,
you've got an awful lot of explaining it is.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
I tell you it was Claire Henderson. She was planning
on skipping town and framing me.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Maybe she wasn't that. Look, I'll give you a break, Locus.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
Suppose you take me over the sea and we'll find
out what she has to say.
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