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The Whistler - "Still Death" (1948) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A mysterious woman commissions a portrait from an artist. Soon afterward,
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  Speaker 1: her husband suffers a stroke that leaves him paralyzed while
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  Speaker 1: she loses the ability to walk. From September 22nd, 1948,
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  Speaker 1: this is The Whistler, Still Death, episode 328. This half-hour
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  Speaker 1: CBS Pacific Network broadcast was sponsored by Signal Oil, with
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  Speaker 1: William Conrad among the cast. The Portrait Commission and its
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  Speaker 1: connection to the couple's sudden incapacitation set the situation for
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  Speaker 1: this mystery. And now, the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: And now for the Signal Oil program, The Whistler, the
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  Speaker 2: mystery program that is unique among all mystery programs.
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  Speaker 3: Because you know who's guilty.
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  Speaker 4: You see his every move.
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  Speaker 3: You know his complete plans, even his innermost thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Yet the final curtain always brings a startling surprise. In
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  Speaker 2: the Signal Oil program... the whistler.
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  Speaker 5: Whistling That whistle is your signal for the Signal Oil program,
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  Speaker 5: the whistler.
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  Speaker 6: Whistling I am the whistler, and I know many things,
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  Speaker 6: for I walk by night. I know many strange tales,
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  Speaker 6: hidden in the hearts of men and women who have
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  Speaker 6: stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors
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  Speaker 6: of which they dare not speak.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, friends, it's the whistler for the tops in entertainment,
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  Speaker 2: friendly independent signal stations from Canada to Mexico. And now
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  Speaker 2: the whistler's strange story.
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  Speaker 7: Still Death. Still Death.
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  Speaker 6: Even with the moonlight through the big window, the studio
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  Speaker 6: room seemed dark to him as he let himself in
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  Speaker 6: quickly and leaned back against the door. It was like
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  Speaker 6: moving in a nightmare somehow. Everything vague, out of focus.
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  Speaker 6: He didn't know how long he'd been standing there when
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  Speaker 6: it came. That soft knock on the door. He didn't
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  Speaker 6: even hear it at first.
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  Speaker 7: Didn't respond.
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  Speaker 6: Until it was repeated urgently, demandingly. Then he came out
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  Speaker 6: of his day sufficiently to hurry across the studio to
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  Speaker 6: the easel by the window. Quickly, he removed the painting,
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  Speaker 6: slipped it behind the desk. Then he turned to answer
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  Speaker 6: the door. The man facing him was a total stranger,
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  Speaker 6: but he called him by name.
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  Speaker 4: Leonard Miles? That's right. You're standing in the dark, Mr. Miles. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 4: I was just leaving.
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  Speaker 8: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: You mind if I come in? What do you want?
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to take a look around. Now, look, it's late.
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  Speaker 4: My studio's closed. I... Do you know Ann Hamilton, Mr. Miles?
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  Speaker 4: Ann Hamilton? Uh, no. No, I don't.
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  Speaker 5: Funny.
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  Speaker 4: That's about the only answer I get out of this neighborhood. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Mr. Miles. I'm Lieutenant Meaghan. Homicide. Homicide? You
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  Speaker 4: mind putting on the lights?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, that's better. Well, you've worked on some interesting subjects, Mr. Miles.
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  Speaker 4: What is it, Lieutenant? What's on your mind? Your work, Mr. Miles.
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  Speaker 9: Your paintings.
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to look at them.
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  Speaker 9: They're all that I've had on my mind since learning
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  Speaker 9: about Anne Hamilton. In case you didn't know, she's dead.
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  Speaker 6: You just stand there, don't you, Leonard, facing the police lieutenant,
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  Speaker 6: not even hearing your own voice as you tell him
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  Speaker 6: to go ahead and examine the canvases. You're almost not
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  Speaker 6: aware of him as he moves about the room because
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  Speaker 6: your mind is spinning rapidly, going over it all again,
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  Speaker 6: reliving each week, day, and hour that you spent with
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  Speaker 6: Ann Hamilton, the girl he's asking about. You'd like to
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  Speaker 6: tell him about it, tell him the kind of person
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  Speaker 6: she was, but you don't.
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  Speaker 7: Because there's still Mary to think about. There's always been Mary.
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  Speaker 6: Before Anne, before everything, there's always been Mary, your wife.
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  Speaker 6: How well you remember the day you and Mary discussed
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  Speaker 6: the exhibition.
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  Speaker 10: Feel better now?
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  Speaker 3: Delicious tea, Mary. Thanks so much. Oh, not at all, Connie.
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  Speaker 3: So good of you to pose for Lynette. Oh, I
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  Speaker 3: love it.
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  Speaker 10: He's taught me more in these past weeks than a
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  Speaker 10: semester of art school.
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  Speaker 3: You going to work any more this afternoon, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Miles?
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  Speaker 4: No, Connie, that'll be all for the day.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'll be running on then. I've got a class tonight.
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  Speaker 4: You'll pay heed to this young lady, Mary. She'll graduate
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  Speaker 4: from that art school in a year or so and
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  Speaker 4: run me.
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  Speaker 6: Out of business.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, in a year you'll be so famous no one
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  Speaker 10: will buy from anyone else.
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  Speaker 3: Good night, Mary.
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  Speaker 7: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Miles.
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  Speaker 3: Good night, Connie.
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  Speaker 11: Good night, Connie.
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  Speaker 3: She's a wonderful girl.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: You know, Lennox, Sometimes I wonder why you stay with me.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, please, Mary.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 10: I'm not a help to you. It's a struggle for
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  Speaker 10: an artist anyway. With an invalid wife.
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  Speaker 4: Now, stop it, Mary. You help me more than you'll
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  Speaker 4: ever know. It's just that... Well, I wish I could
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  Speaker 4: do more for you. Take you away somewhere.
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  Speaker 12: Let you live in the kind of place that you should.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy with you, Leonard.
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  Speaker 4: Mary, I was offered that job again.
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  Speaker 7: No, Leonard.
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  Speaker 4: There's really nothing wrong with doing magazine illustrations, and it
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  Speaker 4: means money. We could try to save.
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  Speaker 3: It's what you want to do. You know that. What
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  Speaker 3: about the exhibit? You haven't completed your work.
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  Speaker 4: The exhibit isn't going to mean anything. Never has.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps it will this time.
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  Speaker 10: Let's wait and see. I have a feeling about it, Leonard.
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  Speaker 10: Promise me you'll wait until after the exhibit.
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  Speaker 3: Please, Leonard?
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  Speaker 4: All right, Mary, darling.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Leonard, your wife Mary had a feeling that the
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  Speaker 6: art exhibit was going to make a difference. But it
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  Speaker 6: wasn't really different from the others before it. You still
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  Speaker 6: heard the same remarks as you moved about among the
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  Speaker 6: little group of onlookers. Then they were gone, the curious,
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  Speaker 6: the mocking, and the few real patrons. You're alone now,
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  Speaker 6: standing there, looking around at a room full of paintings.
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  Speaker 6: Paintings that no one wanted to buy. You stare at
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  Speaker 6: one you were certain they would like. A girl's face
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  Speaker 6: with that curious light across it. Then you're startled suddenly
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  Speaker 6: at the sound of a girl's voice. Hello. You almost
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  Speaker 6: believe your mind is playing tricks and then she speaks again.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 4: Why, hello.
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  Speaker 10: I didn't mean to startle you.
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  Speaker 4: I thought everyone had gone.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: I waited until they had. I liked your work, Mr. Miles.
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: I like it very much.
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  Speaker 10: I may like it well enough to buy.
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  Speaker 4: Well, everything you see is for sale, Miss... Hamilton.
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  Speaker 10: Ann Hamilton.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Well, was there something in particular?
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  Speaker 10: I'd like some time to study them.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, the exhibit's over, but these will all be brought
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  Speaker 4: back to my studio.
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  Speaker 10: I suppose I could come over there. That is, if
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  Speaker 10: the transaction can be kept Private.
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  Speaker 4: Private?
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  Speaker 10: I wouldn't want any talk, Mr. Miles.
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  Speaker 11: Well, I'm sure the mere fact of your buying a
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  Speaker 11: picture wouldn't concern... It might concern some people. You're a
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  Speaker 11: very attractive man, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Miles.
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  Speaker 4: I trust my wife finds me so.
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  Speaker 10: I'm sure she does. My car is across the street.
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  Speaker 10: I wonder if we could continue this over a cocktail.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 10: You're expected home. Couldn't you make a call?
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  Speaker 3: It's business, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Miles. Yes, I can call. I'll do it right away.
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  Speaker 12: Look, Miss Hamilton, about the paintings.
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  Speaker 4: You said you'd call me Ann. All right, Ann.
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  Speaker 7: Ann?
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  Speaker 4: What about the.
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  Speaker 3: The painting.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Is it the girl, the one I was looking at
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  Speaker 4: when you.
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  Speaker 3: The girl?
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  Speaker 10: No, Leonard, I wouldn't want that. Someone else posed for you.
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  Speaker 13: No.
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  Speaker 11: Leonard, I.
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  Speaker 10: I want you to paint me.
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  Speaker 13: Oh?
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  Speaker 10: Will you do it?
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  Speaker 4: Naturally. Portrait painting is my business.
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  Speaker 10: Good. But I should warn you, I'm going to want
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  Speaker 10: something unusual. I'd like a painting of myself just as
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  Speaker 10: I am, Leonard. No pretty lights or shadows. No painting
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  Speaker 10: out the lines.
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  Speaker 4: That should be easy. And there aren't any lines.
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  Speaker 3: You noticed, didn't you?
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  Speaker 10: You've noticed a lot about me.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yes, of course. I make a habit of studying subjects.
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  Speaker 10: You're perfect for what I want, Leonard. You'll paint me
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  Speaker 10: exactly as I am.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll try, Anne. And it isn't such an unusual request.
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  Speaker 10: No. Leonard, someone once told me that I should be
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  Speaker 10: painted killing someone. Or something. You don't believe that, do you?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know, Anne. But you'll paint me. Yes.
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  Speaker 10: Just as I am. We'll work together until it's exactly
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  Speaker 10: like me.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Anne. Until it's exactly like you.
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  Speaker 2: With the prologue of Still Death, the Signal Oil Company
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  Speaker 2: brings you another strange story by the Whistler. But now
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  Speaker 2: two announcements of unusual importance to all Contract Bridge players. One,
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  Speaker 2: the first changes in the rules of Contract Bridge since
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  Speaker 2: 1941 were just made on the first of this month
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  Speaker 2: at the Culbertson Teachers' Convention. And two, a copy of
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  Speaker 2: here is an important announcement for Whistler fans in California only.
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  Speaker 2: Next Wednesday, the Whistler will be heard in California one
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  Speaker 2: hour later at 8.30 p.m. Remember, this is in California only.
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  Speaker 2: And now back to the Whistler.
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  Speaker 6: It was like a nightmare, wasn't it, Leonard? From the
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  Speaker 6: moment you met Ann Hamilton there in the empty art gallery.
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  Speaker 6: The way she seemed to step out of the shadows
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  Speaker 6: into your life. From the first, there was something that
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  Speaker 6: told you to stay away from her. To turn and run.
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  Speaker 7: But you didn't.
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  Speaker 6: And the following evening, you made excuses to marry. Left
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  Speaker 6: her in the apartment. walked down the long corridor and
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  Speaker 6: across the patio to the room that served as your studio,
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  Speaker 6: stood in the half-darkness smoking a cigarette while you waited.
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  Speaker 7: That deep urge to call it all off is there
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  Speaker 7: again for an instant, isn't it, Leonard?
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  Speaker 6: And then it's all swept away, and you're over the
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  Speaker 6: brink as you find yourself with Anne.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, Leonard. It's just as I thought it would be,
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  Speaker 10: your studio. It's as if I'd been here many times before.
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  Speaker 7: Leonard.
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 10: Did your wife like to come here?
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, my wife can't come here. She's an invalid.
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: She was in an accident.
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  Speaker 3: That's too bad.
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  Speaker 12: She used to come here all the time before she
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  Speaker 12: was hurt, but she's still very interested in my work.
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  Speaker 10: So am I. Can we start our painting tonight?
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  Speaker 4: Well, Ann, you wanted to come here to see the studio,
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  Speaker 4: but I wouldn't recommend working this way. At night, I mean.
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  Speaker 4: The light's all wrong.
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  Speaker 10: You'd rather I came in the daytime? Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't get all this secrecy.
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  Speaker 12: There's no reason that you shouldn't come here any time.
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  Speaker 12: I'm a professional artist. Many women have their portraits painted.
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  Speaker 7: But that's just it.
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  Speaker 10: You see, I want this painting to be a surprise.
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  Speaker 10: If anyone knew I was seeing you, it might get
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  Speaker 10: into the papers.
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  Speaker 4: The papers?
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  Speaker 10: You don't understand, do you? Then I don't think you're
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  Speaker 10: really trying to. Oh, nothing to worry about. I'm not
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  Speaker 10: front page copy. But I am a society column item.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, look, Ann, now that you've seen the place.
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  Speaker 10: You're nervous, aren't you? I make you nervous.
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  Speaker 7: Well, then.
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  Speaker 10: It's all right.
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  Speaker 3: We'll go.
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  Speaker 10: I don't want to rush things, you know. I don't
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  Speaker 10: ever want you to do anything with me that you
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  Speaker 10: don't want to do.
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  Speaker 13: Lower your left arm a little, will you?
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  Speaker 10: Like this?
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  Speaker 4: No, a little more.
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  Speaker 3: Now, that's it.
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  Speaker 10: Why don't you let me talk?
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  Speaker 4: Not while you're posing.
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  Speaker 10: But, Leonard, I want to talk.
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  Speaker 4: Please, Ann, I can't concentrate on what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 3: Do I affect you that way? I want to.
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  Speaker 4: Please.
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  Speaker 10: It's been a week. When can I see what you've done?
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  Speaker 4: Well, when I'm finished. I want you to get the
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  Speaker 4: total effect.
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  Speaker 10: Oh. Well, I want to see you. Dinner tonight?
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  Speaker 4: I can't make it tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, but you must.
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  Speaker 10: It's about someone I know. A woman who wants a
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  Speaker 10: portrait of her daughter.
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, can't she see me here?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 10: No, I want to talk to you about it. Tell
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  Speaker 10: you what to say. Please?
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  Speaker 4: All right, Anne. Tonight, then. Dinner.
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  Speaker 7: Dinner.
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  Speaker 3: Why are you stopping?
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  Speaker 4: Anne, this whole thing has to stop somewhere. I want
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  Speaker 4: to talk to you.
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  Speaker 10: I know.
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  Speaker 3: It's about Mary.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 10: I was hoping you meant that everything is over between
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  Speaker 10: you two.
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  Speaker 3: And you've told her.
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  Speaker 4: That isn't what I mean.
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  Speaker 10: I've... Been giving it a lot of thought. You know,
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  Speaker 10: it isn't going to be easy, Leonard.
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  Speaker 3: So, divorce.
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  Speaker 10: Being an invalid will put the sympathy of the court
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  Speaker 10: on Mary's side. And... But we'll work it out, won't we, darling?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: A man just can't... You want us to be together,
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  Speaker 6: don't you?
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  Speaker 4: Well, when I'm with you, I do. But, Ann, I've
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  Speaker 4: got to have time to think.
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  Speaker 3: Certainly, dear.
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  Speaker 10: I love you. You know that. But I don't want
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  Speaker 10: to wait forever. And I know you don't either.
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  Speaker 4: Anne, if there was no one else to consider, if
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  Speaker 4: Mary wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: Kiss me, darling.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I.
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  Speaker 10: It's going to be all right.
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  Speaker 4: Connie. What are you doing in the studio?
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  Speaker 10: I just wanted to say hello. I stopped in on
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  Speaker 10: Mary this morning.
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  Speaker 12: Well, I'm sorry, Connie, but this work I'm doing is.
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  Speaker 3: I peeked under the cover.
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  Speaker 4: You what?
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  Speaker 3: You haven't finished the face.
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  Speaker 10: Is she very beautiful?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't want anybody to see it. Connie, you had
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  Speaker 4: no right.
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  Speaker 1: No, I suppose not.
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  Speaker 10: But it made me think of something.
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  Speaker 3: How beautiful Mary is.
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  Speaker 6: Even now.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Connie.
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  Speaker 4: What.
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  Speaker 7: Mary.
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  Speaker 3: Mary, you shouldn't be standing. I wanted to surprise you, Leonard.
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  Speaker 3: I walked by the way.
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  Speaker 7: Look.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, darling, you'll fall.
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  Speaker 4: Here. Bring the wheelchair, Connie. I.
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  Speaker 10: I'm sorry, Leonard.
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  Speaker 3: I tried anyway.
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  Speaker 4: Here now. Easy now.
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  Speaker 7: There.
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  Speaker 13: Thanks, darling.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Mary.
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  Speaker 7: Mary.
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  Speaker 10: I'll get it, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Miles. No. Connie, I'll get it. Take Mary back to
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  Speaker 4: the apartment, will you please?
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  Speaker 3: Whatever you say.
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  Speaker 4: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, darling.
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  Speaker 4: I can't talk to you now.
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  Speaker 3: What is it, darling?
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  Speaker 4: Never mind. You needn't come here today. It's all finished.
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  Speaker 10: The painting?
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  Speaker 7: Everything. Oh.
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  Speaker 12: Well.
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  Speaker 4: Whatever you want, darling.
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  Speaker 6: But I must see you once more.
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  Speaker 4: No, Anne, it's over. I know for the first time
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  Speaker 4: in weeks. I'm sure now.
• 18:47
  Speaker 10: Tonight at my home, you know the address.
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  Speaker 4: Anne, I'm not going.
• 18:50
  Speaker 10: Just this one.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: I'll be expecting you, darling.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Eight o'clock. Now, what is it, Anne? I told you
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: I didn't want to come here.
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: Please, darling, don't be upset. Come along. I want you
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: to meet someone. In here.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: What's that?
• 19:17
  Speaker 10: I'll put on the light.
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  Speaker 7: There.
• 19:21
  Speaker 10: And now let me introduce you to the man who
• 19:23
  Speaker 10: has given me everything money can buy. My dear, devoted husband.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: Your husband?
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: Now you know why I couldn't be seen with you.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Anne, he's in pain.
• 19:35
  Speaker 10: Yes, poor darling. He had a stroke just last month.
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: But he won't suffer long.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: You've talked like this in front of him?
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: He can hear me, yes. But he can't speak or move.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: I'm going to do something, Anne. I'm going to call
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: a doctor.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Don't bother.
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: He has the best doctors and a fine nurse. She'll
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: be back in a little while. Besides, darling, you wouldn't
• 20:00
  Speaker 10: want Mary to know about us, would you? She's an invalid, too,
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: and the shock.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: No, no, I never want Mary to know about us.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: All right, then. What do you want from me?
• 20:14
  Speaker 10: I want you to finish that painting. It was my
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: husband here who suggested I should be painted killing something.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: I see.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I thought you would.
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: Let's adjourn to the library, shall we?
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Good night, dear.
• 20:38
  Speaker 10: You are going to paint me now.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Aren't you? Yes, and I'm going to paint you now.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: My arm, let go.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Sit down. Now give me that purse. I'll paint you now.
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: Now.
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: My ear.
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: Rouge, lots of it smeared on both cheeks. A little
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: purple for the eyelids. Lots of purple. And red, deep
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: blood red for the lips. A straight red gash. This
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: is the painting for you.
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: Go on.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Look at yourself in the mirror.
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: Take a good look.
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: All right, Leonard. Do it this way. I'll still be
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: at your studio tomorrow.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: You can finish it.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: And then.
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: Then I'll finish with you.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: You wait anxiously all the next day.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: Near evening, you go to the uncompleted painting.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: Stare at it.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: Suddenly take a brush and start to work. Slowly at first,
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: and then rapidly until you complete it. Yes, this is Anne,
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: isn't it? The way you see her. Then as you
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: set aside your brush, you're aware of her presence.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: It's beautiful, Leonard.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: It's the way you are, Anne. Oh, Anne, you're hurt. Yes.
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: I've been shot.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Shot?
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Funny. Very funny.
• 22:24
  Speaker 10: I didn't think it would be this way. But I
• 22:28
  Speaker 10: told you I'd finish things for us, Leonard.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: And I will.
• 22:34
  Speaker 10: When the police arrive, you'll find me here, dying in
• 22:39
  Speaker 10: your arms.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: The Whistler will return in just a moment with a
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: strange ending to tonight's story. Meantime, a special word to
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: you folks who did some traveling throughout the Pacific Coast
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: states this summer. In addition to interesting scenery, you no
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: doubt noticed two other things. One, that wherever you drove,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: you found friendly signal dealers. And two, that from Canada
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: to Mexico, signal gasoline is known as the go farther gasoline. Now, naturally,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: we're plenty proud of signal's good mileage. But even more so,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: we're proud of what makes that mileage possible... I'm talking
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: about the extra efficiency today's signal gasoline coaxes from your motor,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: which naturally means more thrilling pickup, more silent responsive.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Power for your car.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Extra performance, you see, goes hand in hand with mileage,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: the very thing signal gasoline is famous for. That's why
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: we say, to be sure of the tops in gasoline quality,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: there are just two things to remember. One, it takes
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: extra quality to go farther. And two, Signal is the
• 23:57
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• 24:16
  Speaker 7: It's a terrible moment, isn't it, Leonard?
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: The climax of a nightmare as you hold the dying
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: Ann Hamilton in your arms.
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: A thousand confused thoughts crowd into your mind. You can't
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: understand what's happening.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: And who did this? Who shot... Where did you get
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: that gun? I.
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: I guess my husband wasn't as much of an invalid
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: as I thought.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: Your husband?
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Yes. I... I shot him.
• 24:46
  Speaker 10: Then when I put the gun in his hand, make
• 24:52
  Speaker 10: it look like suicide....
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: He shot me.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, Ann.
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: And I saw the suicide angle wouldn't work. I brought
• 25:02
  Speaker 10: the gun up here to pin the whole thing on you, darling.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: Quickly, you pick her up, carry her down the back way,
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: and then bring her car around. Moments later, you're racing
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: toward the nearest hospital. Ann, slumped in the seat beside you,
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: continues to mumble incoherently. Then she's silent. On a darkened
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: side street, you stop the car, walk around the corner
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: to a drugstore and slip into a phone booth.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Police Department.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Sergeant Donald.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Hello?
• 25:40
  Speaker 12: There's a blue convertible parked on Shell Street, off Kelton.
• 25:44
  Speaker 12: You'll find a woman in the front seat.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: She's dead. Who is this?
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: Hello?
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: Who is this?
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: Ten minutes later, you're back at the studio, alone, exhausted,
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: leaning weakly against the door. You're in the clear now,
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: aren't you, Leonard? Certain the police won't be able to
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: connect you with the deaths of Ann Hamilton and her husband.
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: And most important, your wife Mary will never know about Ann. Yes,
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: that's the most important thing in your life, isn't it?
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: Mary.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: Her happiness now and always. For a long while, you
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: stood there in the dark studio. Then the knock came in.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: The soft knock on the door that brought Lieutenant Meehan
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: of homicide. The quiet questions about Anne that sent your
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: mind spinning... as you watched the lieutenant move about the
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: studio examining each can.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: We traced her to this building.
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: Officer Farrell gave her a ticket earlier this evening for
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: going through a red light. Her car was weaving, so
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: he followed her here.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Then when he heard over the police radio that we
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: were looking for Anne Hamilton... He called us. You were
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: looking for her? Yeah. You see, she called headquarters an
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: hour or so ago. Said someone had killed her husband.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Said she thought the.
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: Killer might be a man who had been painting her portrait.
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: Didn't say who he was. But then when she came
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: to this building.
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: Well, you're the only artist around here... See what I mean?
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: I don't know any Ann Hamilton, Lieutenant.
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: Uh-huh.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: So you said before. Have you finished looking around, Lieutenant? Huh? Yeah. Yeah,
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: I guess so. Nice pictures. Well, thanks.
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: I'll be on my way.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: What's the matter?
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: I almost overlooked one of your paintings, Mr. Miles.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: This one behind the desk. Interesting work, Mr.
• 28:04
  Speaker 10: Miles.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: You like it?
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: I said it was interesting.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: You know, Miles, it's.
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: Lucky for you I didn't find a portrait of Ann
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: Hamilton here.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: I never can figure out you guys. Now take this canvasser.
• 28:23
  Speaker 9: You paint a beautiful dame with a figure like that.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: Then instead of a face, you top it off with
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: a death's head.
• 28:51
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• 28:56
  Speaker 7: Friends, let me repeat.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Here is an important announcement for Whistler fans in California only.
• 29:01
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• 29:04
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• 29:12
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• 29:28
  Speaker 2: your own. Featured in tonight's story were William Conrad and
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Lorette Philbrand. The Whistler was produced and directed by.
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: George W.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Allen with story by Gilbert Thomas and music by Wilbur
• 29:44
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• 29:47
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• 29:52
  Speaker 2: another strange tale by The Whistler. Marvin Miller speaking. This
• 30:00
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• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Our visit with the Whistler concludes with Still Death. Thank
• 30:13
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