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The Whistler - ”Borrowed Future” (Old Time Radio, 1954) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: A whistler.
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: I am the whistler, and I know many things. Or
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: in the hearts of men and women who have stepped
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: which they dare not speak.
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: And now the whistler's strange story borrowed future.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: The late afternoons, a red ball of fire lingered on
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: the rim of the distant mountain, and long shadows were
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: creeping across the valley floor. As Phil Hodges stood at
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: the window of the construction company office watched the approach
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: of the car along the narrow, dusty roadway leading up
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: to the newly erected, almost completed dam. He had no
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: way of knowing, of course, that because of that car
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: it's occupant, a new and never to be forgotten chapter
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: in his life was about to be written.
• 1:34
  Speaker 3: Hi a fella, Well what do you know, Jim, Jim Welch,
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: Why say this is a surprise?
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: What brings you around business?
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: My boy?
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: Stop by your rooming house over at Willow's Pass, as
• 1:48
  Speaker 3: Dal told me I'd find you here, And.
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, what a doll. Yeah, that'll be Claudia.
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: Say what she's doing in a hecktwn like willow Pass.
• 1:54
  Speaker 3: Don't tell me she runs a boarding house. Her mother does.
• 1:57
  Speaker 3: Missus Hackett wouldn't care to put in a good word
• 2:00
  Speaker 3: for old Powell, would.
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: You with Missus Hackett? Sure? The doll busing? Never mind?
• 2:05
  Speaker 3: Missus Hackett, Hey, lay off, that's my territory.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: All So that's it. That figure is you want to
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: look around see some of the old gang? Yeah? Yeah, later,
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: Pop done again? Study your night watchman? Yeah?
• 2:18
  Speaker 3: Sure is that bars of years around? No, mister Grayson's
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: up in Portland on business. Won't be back for another week.
• 2:25
  Speaker 3: Speaking of business, sim can we go inside?
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: Talk? Sure?
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: Come on? How you been doing? Jim? So?
• 2:32
  Speaker 3: So, I know they're going to be a little rough
• 2:35
  Speaker 3: When I left this out. It started in business for myself,
• 2:37
  Speaker 3: but I've managed. I'm glad to hear it made a
• 2:40
  Speaker 3: lot of contexts too, Phil.
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: One of them is about to pay off, big good, good. Yeah.
• 2:46
  Speaker 3: I got a bid in on a job in Nevada,
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: a big one chance I've been waiting for. I'm sure
• 2:52
  Speaker 3: I can land it, only I'm gonna have to get
• 2:54
  Speaker 3: some heavy equipment as well.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: Remember all Man Faraday, Yeah, sure, he's still in business.
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the old warhouse is going to retire on I
• 3:02
  Speaker 3: can pick up a lot of this stuff for a song.
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: How much twenty thousand? You're whistling quite a tune, bell,
• 3:10
  Speaker 3: I can manage about half of it. I am looking
• 3:11
  Speaker 3: for a guy who can put up the rest. That's
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: why I came to see you.
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: So me. You're kiddy.
• 3:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sure I can get the financing elsewhere, but
• 3:22
  Speaker 3: I wanted to give you a crack at it first.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: Well, thanks, Jim.
• 3:25
  Speaker 3: I know you thought for a long time wanting to
• 3:27
  Speaker 3: get out on your own.
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: Remember always talk about it in the old days.
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just pipe stream for me, at least it doesn't
• 3:33
  Speaker 3: have to be. I'm offering you a chance to come
• 3:36
  Speaker 3: in with me, a partnership. A partnership, Yeah, be your
• 3:40
  Speaker 3: own boss. I'm gonna set up an office in San Francisco.
• 3:43
  Speaker 3: Want you to take over. Look Phil, No more along
• 3:46
  Speaker 3: road trip, staying in crummy hotels, cheap food. Hick Tom, Stop,
• 3:50
  Speaker 3: you're killing me. Listen, Jim. You know I'd go for
• 3:52
  Speaker 3: it in a minute only. I just don't have the money.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: Wold Jaborrow. How about that uncle of yours.
• 3:59
  Speaker 3: Your old uncle Fred, Remember the last time I hit
• 4:02
  Speaker 3: him for a few bucks, was sure, but that was
• 4:05
  Speaker 3: to pay off a gambling debt. You've been a pretty
• 4:08
  Speaker 3: steady boy since then. This time it's different. It's a
• 4:11
  Speaker 3: chance for you to go into business for yourself. Yeah,
• 4:15
  Speaker 3: you know, Jim, Maybe you're right, he might come through.
• 4:18
  Speaker 3: How soon would you need the money? While I'm on
• 4:20
  Speaker 3: my way over to the coast. Should be passing back
• 4:22
  Speaker 3: this way in a couple of days. All right, Jim,
• 4:25
  Speaker 3: I'll see what I can do.
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: It's the opportunity you've long been waiting for, isn't it fair?
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  Speaker 2: And more important, it would mean the end of the dull,
• 4:38
  Speaker 2: boring field trip. Instead, you'd have a comfortable, air cooled
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: office in the city, a fine apartment, good food, and
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: good time. It's what you've always wanted, isn't it? That
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: evening you're at the b pacing back and forth along
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: the front porch.
• 5:04
  Speaker 4: Look still, it's getting late.
• 5:07
  Speaker 5: What are we going to the dance?
• 5:08
  Speaker 4: Everybody's there by now.
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: I told your Claudia as soon as I get that
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  Speaker 1: phone call.
• 5:14
  Speaker 4: Fine thing. Maybe I should have gone with Johnny when
• 5:17
  Speaker 4: he asked.
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: Me, okay, maybe you should have or with Ralph or Frank.
• 5:22
  Speaker 5: Or darling, I really didn't mean that.
• 5:25
  Speaker 3: I know there are a dozen guys in this town
• 5:27
  Speaker 3: who'd fall all over themselves for a chance to take you.
• 5:29
  Speaker 4: Out from all time.
• 5:30
  Speaker 5: Romeo is not the movie, you see what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sorry, and I barked at you like that.
• 5:43
  Speaker 4: Baby, You're just jittery about selling that doll.
• 5:47
  Speaker 5: Phone call has anything to do with it.
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: Has everything to do with it. Look, I was going
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: to keep this as a surprise, but.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the call I'm expecting is from my uncle in
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  Speaker 3: San Francisco. I phoned him earlier today, offered him a proposition.
• 6:00
  Speaker 3: He said he'd think it over and let me know tonight.
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  Speaker 4: So that's it.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to mean a lot to both of us. Baby,
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  Speaker 3: you'd like to get out of his hick town, wouldn't you?
• 6:07
  Speaker 3: Would I you can have all the things you've always wanted.
• 6:09
  Speaker 3: An apartment in the city, smart clothes, nightclubs. Oh, I
• 6:13
  Speaker 3: could be Uncle Fred. Now wait here, baby, and keep
• 6:16
  Speaker 3: your fingers crossed.
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  Speaker 4: We're darling what it is we're written.
• 6:29
  Speaker 6: Baby.
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: The old boy is gonna let me have the money.
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: He's sending me a check in the morning.
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: You're on your way now, aren't you, Phil, Yes, the
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: realization of a dream and the future looks fright for it.
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: For two days you wait eagerly for your uncle's check,
• 6:46
  Speaker 2: but it doesn't come. And then on the morning of
• 6:48
  Speaker 2: the third day, Jim Welch returns from his trip to
• 6:51
  Speaker 2: the coast and stops at the boarding house.
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: What film. Maybe the old GM changed his mind.
• 6:57
  Speaker 3: No, no, he gave me his word, Jim, I know
• 6:59
  Speaker 3: Uncle Fred'll send it, okay, but I've got to get
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: up to Metford and close that deal with Faraday. Look,
• 7:04
  Speaker 3: I've been trying to get my uncle on the phone, but.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: There's no answer. Can you give me till this afternoon? Sure?
• 7:09
  Speaker 3: Sure, Phil, I'll check it at the hotel. I could
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: use some shut I tripped to the coast. Push me
• 7:15
  Speaker 3: call me when you get some word.
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: Huh, I will Jim Uren.
• 7:23
  Speaker 5: God, Hello, baby, I thought I heard you talking to somebody.
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, fellow, I was telling you about Jim Welch.
• 7:30
  Speaker 5: Oh he asked for the money.
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, may o, man's been here and gone.
• 7:35
  Speaker 5: No check, Oh, Phil, I was it a wonderful chance
• 7:40
  Speaker 5: for both of us.
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but there's nothing to do now but forget about it.
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: But you can't.
• 7:44
  Speaker 5: Forget about it. You can't let an opportunity like this
• 7:48
  Speaker 5: slip by check spend de lay. That's all probably over
• 7:53
  Speaker 5: the main post office in Twin Falls right now.
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought of that.
• 7:57
  Speaker 3: I got to roll over there anyway, I'll ask, Well.
• 8:01
  Speaker 4: That's right, you have to drive over to the bank there,
• 8:05
  Speaker 4: don't you.
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, pick up the company payroll. Phil.
• 8:09
  Speaker 4: When are you leaving for Twin Falls in a few minutes?
• 8:12
  Speaker 5: Why thought i'd ride over with you?
• 8:16
  Speaker 2: Sure?
• 8:17
  Speaker 4: I just feel like going.
• 8:18
  Speaker 5: For a drive, And besides, I have an idea.
• 8:22
  Speaker 4: I'd like to talk over with you.
• 8:33
  Speaker 3: Hello, Jim, this is Phil. Look, I'm falling from Twin Falls,
• 8:37
  Speaker 3: leaving right away. I should be back in Willow Pass
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: by two this afternoon.
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: Wait for me.
• 8:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you'll get the check for me.
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: No, no, but I've made some other arrangements. I have
• 8:47
  Speaker 3: the money for you, Jim, all.
• 8:48
  Speaker 7: Of it ten grand in cash.
• 9:10
  Speaker 2: It's done, isn't it. Bill. You've borrowed ten thousand dollars
• 9:14
  Speaker 2: at the company payroll money turned it over to your
• 9:17
  Speaker 2: new partner, Jim Wells. It was a risky move, but
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: you're certain everything will work out. As soon as your
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: uncle's check arrived and you're certainly. Will You'll replace the
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: money you took from the Grace and Construction Company and
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: be in the clear. But that evening, as you're having
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: dinner with Claudia.
• 9:37
  Speaker 5: Look, Bill, I thought this was supposed to be a celebration.
• 9:41
  Speaker 4: Why so gone?
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry?
• 9:45
  Speaker 4: Something on your mind?
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: The payroll money, that said, isn't it?
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: I've been thinking about it all day. I wish I
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: hadn't used it. I started regretting at the moment Jim left. Tom,
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't have touched it as.
• 9:59
  Speaker 5: Wrong easy, you want the whole world to know. What
• 10:04
  Speaker 5: are you worried about? You're gonna pay it back, aren't
• 10:07
  Speaker 5: you will? Your uncle's check arrived. Yes, so you've only
• 10:11
  Speaker 5: borrowed Grayson's ten thousand for a little while.
• 10:14
  Speaker 4: That's all.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: It still isn't right?
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  Speaker 4: Well maybe not, but it's done.
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's done.
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  Speaker 4: Oh love, darling.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe if I told Grayson explain why I did it?
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  Speaker 5: What's wrong with you? Out of your mind?
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: What good would that do?
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: I could make him understand? Oh?
• 10:31
  Speaker 4: Sure, get a great big laugh over it. Now you've
• 10:34
  Speaker 4: been dipping into the kill. I'll tut my boy. I
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: help yourself anytime.
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: Feel free?
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 10:40
  Speaker 5: Come off at Phil. Anyway, you can't tell Grayson he's
• 10:44
  Speaker 5: in Portland free.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: You'll be back in a few days.
• 10:46
  Speaker 4: And by that time this whole thing will be cleared up.
• 10:49
  Speaker 4: Your uncle's check will surely arrive tomorrow.
• 10:52
  Speaker 5: You will replace Grayson's money, and that'll be the end
• 10:55
  Speaker 5: of it.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: I hope it will be.
• 10:57
  Speaker 5: Oh, come on, Phil, snap out of the things work out.
• 11:03
  Speaker 5: As soon as you get your uncle's check, you'll feel different,
• 11:06
  Speaker 5: a bottle all of it.
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, perhaps Claudy is right again, Phil, But the following
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: morning you're shocked to discover there's still no check in
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: the mail. Something's wrong, Phil, very wrong, And when you
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: reach the construction company office you're in for another shock.
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: Hello Phil, mister mister, I thought you were still up
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: in Portland.
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: Ah, well, I finished my affairs a little earlier than
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: I expected. Hey, I phoned you yesterday, but the boys
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: said that you've gone over to Twin Falls. They got
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: the fare Oel money.
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's right. Well, how's everything going fine? Just fine? Sir?
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: Oh good.
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: I think we will be out of here by the
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: end of this week. Phil, I'm sure that excellent. Right
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: on scheduling. You really know how to run it out,
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: said my boy. Thanks, well, I think I'll run up
• 12:05
  Speaker 3: to the dam have a look around. See you later, Apol. Sure,
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: Miss Grayson, sure? Uh uh.
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: You're stand there trembling, don't you.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: Phil.
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: Watch Grayson as he walks out of the office starts
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: up toward the dam. Only the two of you have
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: access to the company's safe, and if for some reason
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: or other he has occasion to look into the safe
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: find the ten thousand dollars missing. You're going to be
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: in for real trouble, aren't you. Quickly you reach for
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: the telephone put in another call to your uncle in
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: San Francisco. You're relieved when finally you hear his housekeeper's
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: voice at the other end of the line.
• 12:47
  Speaker 5: Hello, mister Hodge's residence.
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: Miss Kelly, this is Phil.
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: Oh, mister stillup.
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: I'm so glad you called.
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: Look, I've been trying to reach out with Thread for days.
• 12:56
  Speaker 3: There's been no answer.
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 12:57
  Speaker 5: I've been away for a few days using my sister
• 13:00
  Speaker 5: rush back as soon as I heard about the accident.
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: Accident your uncle, mister Phillips.
• 13:05
  Speaker 5: He was an an automobile crash three nights ago.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: What happened the same.
• 13:10
  Speaker 5: Night he talked with you on the telesphone about an
• 13:12
  Speaker 5: hour later.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: Oh no, no.
• 13:16
  Speaker 5: Now you needn't worry, mister Phillips. So it's condition serious.
• 13:19
  Speaker 5: The doctor say you're pulled through. Of course they're not
• 13:22
  Speaker 5: allowing visitors yet.
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: All right, you know, all right, So it's my fault.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: I didn't say that, Claudia. I just wish I hadn't
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: listened to you. That's all. I'm in a real jam.
• 13:41
  Speaker 5: I would have sidically use a payroll money. Oh you
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: were so certain your uncle would send that check?
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: Sure? Sure, but how was I don't know. He get
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: himself banged up on a car crash.
• 13:51
  Speaker 5: I don't suppose there's a chance he did nail that
• 13:53
  Speaker 5: check before the accident.
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: I mean he had, i'd have gotten it by now. No,
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: that's basic, Claudia. The check isn't coming.
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: Well, what are you gonna do?
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: He don't know.
• 14:03
  Speaker 6: I just don't know.
• 14:04
  Speaker 5: But we just can't spend the rest of the night
• 14:05
  Speaker 5: driving around going nowhere.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe we should be going somewhere.
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: Do you mean?
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: Just keep going as far away from Willow Pass as possible?
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: Run away?
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: What else can I do? Tomorrow is payday? What's grace?
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say, until when he else has to
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: say and find ten thousand dollars missing, I've got to leave.
• 14:21
  Speaker 5: Well, then you'll have to leave alone till you're a nice, great,
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: big handsome boy. I like you, but no running from
• 14:29
  Speaker 5: the law for me. He read me to fill this
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: pall of yours. Kim welch he has the money.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: He gave him has and he sure, but he's up
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: in Medford.
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: Well call him up, kill him.
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: The whole deal's off.
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: You want the money back. We can drive up there
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: in a few hours and pick it up.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: Don't you think I follow that. I don't know where
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: he's staying. Besides, he's probably closed the deal by now.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe not.
• 14:52
  Speaker 6: Doesn't you have any friends around there people he might.
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: Be staying with.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Oh god, I don't know. We were on a job
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: there a couple of years ago and he ain't Wait
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: a minute.
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the boys in a are fit married
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: a gall in Midford stayed on when we finished the job.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: Ben Adams. Yeah, Jim, sure to look him up.
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: Okay, so it's with a dry but there's a signal
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: station up ahead.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: You can calm from there. Hello, Jim, missus Phil.
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: Well, hi boy, and I did know why to reach
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: me and.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: Just talked with Ben Adams. He told me where you
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: were staying. Look, did you close the deal with Faraday?
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: Yep? An hour ago, all signed and sealed.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: We'll get it unfiled. I want out, Jim, I've changed
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: my mind.
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: Wait a minute, what's wrong.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: I can't explain it all. I want that money back, Jim,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: all of it.
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: Hold on, Phil, it's too late. I told you I
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: closed the deal with Faraday, and.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: I told you I got to have the money back.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: Impossible. I can't do that.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: You got to tell Faraday the deal's off, tell him anything.
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: But I don't know what this is all about. But
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, Phil. But if the deal is set closed
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: and there is nothing I can do? Uh well, hello,
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: oh fella, do you hear me?
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 16:05
  Speaker 8: Do what's on your mind to You've been pretty quiet
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: since we left that gas station back there.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I've been thinking things out, Clodia.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: I gotta find a way to gain time to get
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: that money from my uncle, and I think i'd figured
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: it out.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: It's funny hasn't occurred to me before.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: You better tell me all about it.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you all the details later. Your mother is
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: still up. You run on in the house like a
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: good girl.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Keep a company.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: Huh aren't you coming in?
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Oh? I have an errand to do?
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: It's still what are you up to?
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Never mind?
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: He'll tell me.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: All right, it's very simple. Somebody who's gonna rob the
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: safe at the office. I'll set the whole thing up,
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: make it look like a robber took that money.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: What about them?
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: You'll be around Morty, probably in the office.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: So how do you handle him?
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Oh? I have to get him out of the way.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Don't worry. I'm not gonna hurt him. I'll slip up
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: and behind tap him easy, Just knock him out for
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: a little while.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: You get away with it.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: I gotta take the chance. It'll give me the time
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: I need to repay that money.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: I don't follow in a week or so while drive
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: down to San Francisco, get the check.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: From Uncle Fred. I'll catch it there and bring the
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: money back.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: And then what you and kend to simply return the
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: money to the safe look out.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: I'll figure something else, arrange for the money to be
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: found somewhere.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: A locker at the bus depot.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Maybe an anonymous phone call to the police didn't work.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Claudia that sounds crazy enough to.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: You're really worried about what you've done.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: That you feel taking Grayson's money.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Yes, I wish I hadn't done it, but he'll get
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: it back every cent and I'll be out of this mess.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: Okay, I hope you know what you're doing.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Ten minutes later, you park your car in the shadows
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: not far from the construction company office and hurry toward
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: the small building. He pressed back against the walls, tip
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: over a gas to him. You attract Pop's attention. There's
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: only one thing that worries you, say, Pop done again
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: as an old man, and you must be careful not
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: to hit him too hard. A thousand confused thoughts race
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: through your mind. Your knees are trembling, your heart palms furiously.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: As Pop comes out of the office.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Who's that?
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Your hand tightens around the wrench, but suddenly you're unable
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: to move, to think, to do anything but stare. And
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: then Pop turns towards you.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Hello, Pop, Oh, Hello, mister Hodgens. What you doing around
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: here this time of night?
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: I is I have an important letter to attend to.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Forgot it this sid to Loon when I left? What
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: you got me in for this a wrench.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I found it on the ground over there.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Somebody's getting kind of careless.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I'll take it, mister Hajji.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, here you are. You couldn't do it, could you fill?
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: At the last bit second you discovered you couldn't bring
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: the wrench down on the back of the old man's head.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Inside the office, you sit at your desk, pretend to work,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: cast sidelong glances at Pop hitting across the room reading
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: his paper. You'll still time to carry out your plan,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: but it would mean hitting old Pop and you just
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: can't do it. Can you fill?
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: You're really putting in some overtime, miss Jji? What time
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: is it? Almost two thirty? All through? Yeah, Pop, I'm
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: all through? Finished, good night? Not a film, mister yeah, yeah, sure,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I'm sure glad you dropped in.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Don't get many customers this time. And I you're heading
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: on a trip, no coming back. Maybe I've just sort
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: of been driving around.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: That's all.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Problems a problem, Well, things have a way of working
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: themselves out.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: This problem a woman, maybe she's part of it. Just
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: walk away from a poll. There's some other things you
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: can walk away from. You just have to face the music.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: That what you're gonna do.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that's that's what I'm gonna do. Face the music.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: It's all over, isn't it.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Phil.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: You've made up your mind to that you've decided to
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: return to Willow Pass. Tell mister Grayson everything. How you
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: borrowed the ten thousand dollars from the company's safe and
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: gave it to Jim Welch. It's early morning when you
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: arrive at the construction office. The work crews are making
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: ready to move on up the hill to the dam.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: All your morning, Phil. Morning.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Hey, there was a phone call for you a few
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: minutes ago. Woman runs the boarding house, missus Hackett. Oh,
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you were here. She seemed concerned
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: because you hadn't been to the boarding house all night. Well,
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: I guess you better get the money out of the safe.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Phil, start in the pay older.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Mister Grayson Knight, I'd like to talk to you. Yeah, sure, sure,
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: but today, Look, can it wait five or ten minut
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: I want to catch Orgerson screw before they've gone up to.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Day, But mister Grayson know I won't be long. Yes, Hello,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: that you fell Jim.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: I'm on my way back to San Francisco. Just wanted
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: to make sure you got the package I left for you.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: The package.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I stopped at.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Your rooming house around six this morning, but you hadn't
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: been in all night, so I took it up to
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: your office gave it to Pop. Done again, he said,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: he put it in your test.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a package here.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: But you sounded so right on the phone last night,
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: and wow, I got to thinking.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: So I went back to Fataday and made another deal.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, Philly, old war horse isn't retiring after all,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: he's my new partner.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: You mean, wait a minute, the money.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you're ten grand. You wanted it back, didn't you.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I sure did.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Hey, what was all the panic about.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you some other time, Jim. Right now, I
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: have to make up the payroll.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Featured in Tonight's story where Bill Foreman as the Whistler,
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Les Tremaine, Gene Bates, hi Aberbach, Bill Bouchet, and Britt Wood.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: The Whistler, directed by George w Allen with music by
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Wilbur Hatch, is produced under the supervision of Ed Bloodworth
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: and transmitted overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. This
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: evening story was by Adrian John Doe. The Whistler was
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on the Whistler are
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: also fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance to persons
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: The Whistler has just brought to another of this strange tale.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: This is the United States Armed Forces Radio Service.