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The Whistler - "Design for Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1955) · The Whistler | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Charles Gilbert sees his wife Edna off on a vacation
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: while making plans to spend time with another woman. But
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Edna's friend, Myrene Walker, has noticed more than Charles suspects,
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: and her resolve to protect Edna carries the matter from
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: a railroad station cocktail lounge to Charles's newly acquired beach
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: house on Lido Isle. From CBS, this is The Whistler.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Design for Murder, Episode 690. First broadcast September 8th, 1955.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Bill Foreman is the whistler, with Lorraine Tuttle, Jack Edwards,
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: Lois Corbett, and Jack Moyles, in a script by Joel Malone,
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  Speaker 1: who also produced, directed by Gordon T.
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  Speaker 2: Hughes.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: Wilbur Hatch provides the music. Here is the original broadcast.
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: I am the Whistler, and I know many things, for
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  Speaker 3: I walk by night. I know many.
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  Speaker 4: Strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women
• 1:12
  Speaker 4: who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the
• 1:16
  Speaker 4: nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.
• 1:22
  Speaker 5: Tonight, it's the Whistler's strange story designed for murder.
• 1:38
  Speaker 4: The trio in the railroad station cocktail lounge seemed typical
• 1:42
  Speaker 4: of many groups awaiting the departures of their train. They
• 1:46
  Speaker 4: were Charles Gilbert, his wife Edna, and her close friend
• 1:49
  Speaker 4: Myrene Walker, who chatted ceaselessly, voicing her envy at not
• 1:53
  Speaker 4: being able to join Edna on the trip. Myrene loved trains,
• 1:58
  Speaker 4: loved desert vacation resorts.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, she seemed to love everything.
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  Speaker 4: Charles, on the other hand, seemed lost in thought or
• 2:06
  Speaker 4: patient resignation until.
• 2:08
  Speaker 3: I.
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  Speaker 6: Wish you weren't so anxious to have me out of town, Charles.
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: Now, what do you mean by that?
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: Well, you seem very insistent.
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  Speaker 6: Another time when the business.
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  Speaker 3: Needs me so.
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  Speaker 2: How do you like that, Myrene?
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  Speaker 7: She doesn't want to go.
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  Speaker 2: Thinks the jewelry business will go to pot.
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  Speaker 7: Thinks her husband plans a rendezvous with another woman.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, for heaven's sake.
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  Speaker 3: Drink your drink, Edna. You too, Charles.
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  Speaker 6: We'll all feel better. I'd feel better if I knew
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  Speaker 6: why you can't go alone, Charles.
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  Speaker 2: I told you I'll be busy.
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  Speaker 7: Also, I want you to go alone. You'll rest more.
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  Speaker 2: And you do need it.
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  Speaker 7: Look at her, Myrene.
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  Speaker 2: Not able to keep her hands still.
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  Speaker 6: Doodling on the menu.
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  Speaker 3: Give me that pen. Oh, sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I'm always doodling.
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  Speaker 6: It's a design I was thinking of.
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  Speaker 3: A piece of costume jewelry.
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  Speaker 7: Well, stop thinking of anything like that. And since it's
• 2:59
  Speaker 7: going to bother you, I'll tell you exactly what I'm
• 3:01
  Speaker 7: going to be doing, dear. It was to be a surprise.
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  Speaker 6: A surprise?
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 7: We talked about a beach house, remember?
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  Speaker 2: On Lido Isle?
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  Speaker 6: I remember talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I bought one. A beautiful place. I'm having it
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  Speaker 2: all remodeled inside.
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  Speaker 7: I have to be there.
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  Speaker 6: Charles, you didn't.
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  Speaker 7: I did.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, don't be too grateful because, well, it's mostly your money.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I don't care the thought. Charles, I feel much
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  Speaker 6: better about the trip now.
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  Speaker 2: You do? Well, then give me your handkerchief. Look at it, Myrene.
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  Speaker 6: Torn to shreds by Edna.
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  Speaker 7: When she's not doodling, she's tearing up her handkerchief. She's
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  Speaker 7: got to be doing something every minute. And she wonders
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  Speaker 7: why I want her to rest.
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  Speaker 3: My dear, you're going.
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  Speaker 7: To relax or I'll know the reason why.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Finally, she leaves on the train, doesn't she, Charles? And
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  Speaker 3: you're free.
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  Speaker 4: You see Myrene to a cab. Hurry back to the
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  Speaker 4: cocktail lounge. Go directly to a corner booth. Flip in
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  Speaker 4: beside someone who's been waiting for you. Not too patiently.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Helen.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, darling, I am too. Sorry that we have to
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  Speaker 3: practice this reception. Kiss me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, dear, we really shouldn't be here. I.
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  Speaker 3: Here, I ordered you a drink. I can use that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, at least we'll have some time together. Uninterrupted.
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  Speaker 3: You're sure Edna will stay away for a while? Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: She's gone for a month.
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  Speaker 6: It wasn't fun watching you kiss her goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I knew it.
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  Speaker 3: For some day.
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  Speaker 5: I hope it's soon, Charlie. Look.
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  Speaker 2: I'll pick you up tomorrow.
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  Speaker 7: We'll drive down to the place and leave a while.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you'll love it.
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  Speaker 7: I've been using quite a few of your ideas in
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  Speaker 7: redecorating the place.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds wonderful. It is.
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  Speaker 3: Well, come on. I'll drive you home.
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  Speaker 4: She's an exciting girl, isn't she, Charles? You have difficulty
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  Speaker 4: getting around to saying goodnight to Helen. And only the
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  Speaker 4: thought of seeing her again the next day finally makes
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  Speaker 4: it possible. It's quite late when you arrive back home
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  Speaker 4: and let yourself into the house. You're scarcely inside when.
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  Speaker 2: That's odd. Who could that.
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  Speaker 6: Be? Myrene. Yes, little Myrene. I'd like to come in, Charles.
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  Speaker 3: I want to talk to you. Why, of course.
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  Speaker 6: I'll come straight to the point. It wasn't a very
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  Speaker 6: pretty sight, Charles, seeing you kiss that girl right after
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  Speaker 6: bidding Edna goodbye.
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  Speaker 7: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Why.
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  Speaker 6: Go on. Make it good.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you wouldn't say anything to her about this, would you?
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  Speaker 3: That depends on you.
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  Speaker 6: I don't suppose you've made any dates.
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  Speaker 3: For the future with her?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, certainly not.
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  Speaker 8: Hmm.
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  Speaker 6: You know, Charles, you weren't kidding when you made that
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  Speaker 6: remark about Edna's money. You've had it pretty easy since
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  Speaker 6: becoming her business manager.
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  Speaker 3: And now, her husband.
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  Speaker 2: Myrene, this girl means nothing. I swear it.
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  Speaker 3: I won't see her again.
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  Speaker 2: Look, in a few days, you.
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  Speaker 7: And Arthur drop down to the place that lead a while.
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  Speaker 7: You'll see all that I'm doing for Edna. I'll take
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  Speaker 7: you around the place. We can relax, go for a swim.
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  Speaker 6: I don't swim, Charles. And when my best friend's husband
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  Speaker 6: starts two-timing her, I don't feel like relaxing either.
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  Speaker 2: Irene, I've told you, I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard you.
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  Speaker 6: And I've told you, Charles, you stay away from that girl.
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  Speaker 6: THE END.
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  Speaker 5: In just 30 seconds, the whistler will continue tonight's story.
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  Speaker 9: Don't be half right.
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  Speaker 3: Use you, Safi.
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  Speaker 9: For example, how many amendments in our United States Constitution
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  Speaker 9: make up the Bill of Rights?
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  Speaker 3: Would you say five?
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  Speaker 2: No, that's only half right.
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  Speaker 3: Brush up on your American government.
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  Speaker 9: Tell your I and E officer you want to study
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  Speaker 9: with the United States Armed Forces Institute, USAFI.
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  Speaker 2: It's easy.
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  Speaker 3: It's simple.
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  Speaker 9: If you don't want to be half right, use USAFI.
• 7:41
  Speaker 2: And now, back to the whistler.
• 8:03
  Speaker 4: It's going badly, isn't it, Charles? Myrene knows about your girlfriend, Helen.
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  Speaker 4: She knows that it was more than husbandly concern that
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  Speaker 4: prompted you to encourage your wife, Edna, to leave town
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  Speaker 4: on a vacation.
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  Speaker 3: A rest cure for her nervousness.
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  Speaker 4: Myrene has always been Edna's best friend. And she'll tell
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  Speaker 4: her the truth if you don't do something to reassure
• 8:26
  Speaker 4: her that you don't intend to see Helen again. You
• 8:29
  Speaker 4: wish you could contact Helen. Prevent her from keeping her
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  Speaker 4: date with you the following day at the house on
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  Speaker 4: Lido Island.
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  Speaker 3: And you're terribly nervous all the time she's there with you.
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  Speaker 6: What is it, Charlie?
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  Speaker 3: You haven't heard anything I've said.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, I have, Helen. It's just that, well, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a little jumpy.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I thought with your wife out of town.
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  Speaker 7: Helen, we've got to talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: It, uh... It isn't as perfect as it seems. Oh?
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  Speaker 7: A friend of Edna's, Myrene Walker.
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  Speaker 2: She knows about us.
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  Speaker 3: Knows what about us?
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  Speaker 2: Well, not everything, of course.
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  Speaker 7: She thinks it's a casual thing that we're old friends
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  Speaker 7: happen to run into one another.
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  Speaker 3: But... But if she continues to see us together... That's right.
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  Speaker 2: She'll go to Edna.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Helen, we, uh....
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  Speaker 2: We've got to forget about it for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Forget about it? Well, you know I don't mean that exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I guess not.
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  Speaker 6: You promised me you were going to talk to Edna
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  Speaker 6: after the ball.
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  Speaker 7: I know, and I intend to, but it can't be
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  Speaker 7: right away, Helen.
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  Speaker 2: I have my reasons. Right now, it's important that you leave.
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  Speaker 2: We're not seen together.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Charlie. I won't need a second invitation.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, now, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 6: I've waited long enough as it is.
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  Speaker 3: Quite long enough. Goodbye. But, Helen, I... Goodbye, Charles. She's gone,
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  Speaker 3: isn't she, Charles? And only a few moments later, you
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  Speaker 3: hear her car start up and roar away. And you're alone.
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  Speaker 3: Alone in the house that you were supposed to.
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  Speaker 4: Be remodeling for your wife, Edna. And as the hours
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  Speaker 4: of the afternoon drag by into the night, you find
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  Speaker 4: yourself feeding the place And you'll always hate it. Unless somehow, soon,
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  Speaker 4: the house can be yours and Helen's.
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  Speaker 3: Just how you're going to bring that about isn't quite
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  Speaker 3: clear to you yet, is it? How you'll get rid
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  Speaker 3: of your wife, Edna.
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  Speaker 4: It's on your mind all the next day. And that
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  Speaker 4: evening as you sit alone at the beach home, you're
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  Speaker 4: still thinking about it. When suddenly you're aware of a
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  Speaker 4: noise outside.
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  Speaker 2: Myrene.
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  Speaker 7: Well, well.
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  Speaker 2: This is a surprise.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Charles.
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  Speaker 2: Snooping around, were you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, all right.
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  Speaker 6: Call it that if you want.
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  Speaker 2: You're wasting your time, really. I'm quite alone.
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  Speaker 3: Are you?
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  Speaker 7: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: Come on in, Myrene. I'd like to show you around
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  Speaker 2: the place.
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  Speaker 4: Like a child caught at the cookie jar, Myrene follows
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  Speaker 4: you inside.
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  Speaker 3: She's nervous, ill at ease.
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  Speaker 4: Avoid your gaze as you show her about the house.
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  Speaker 4: And then finally, the two of you end up at
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  Speaker 4: the boat land.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what do you think of it, Myrene?
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  Speaker 3: Tell her.
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  Speaker 6: It's very nice, Charles.
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  Speaker 7: You think Edna will like it?
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  Speaker 9: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 6: This isn't the sort of house Edna would like at all.
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  Speaker 3: It just doesn't suit her personality, let's say.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure there isn't a thing here that would interest her.
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  Speaker 6: Outside of that unusual painting.
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  Speaker 3: In the living room.
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  Speaker 7: That's rather nice, isn't it? Impressionistic, I believe they call
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  Speaker 7: that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 6: To me, it looked almost like a dragon about to
• 12:12
  Speaker 6: devour something.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Edna likes offbeat things like that. I bought it
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  Speaker 2: especially for her.
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  Speaker 3: A surprise. Oh, really, Charles?
• 12:21
  Speaker 7: Just what does that mean?
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: May I be blunt?
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: Please, feel free.
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  Speaker 6: You didn't buy this house for Edna. When does Helen
• 12:29
  Speaker 6: move in?
• 12:30
  Speaker 7: Now, see here, Myrene.
• 12:31
  Speaker 3: You see here.
• 12:33
  Speaker 6: It's a glamorous place, Charles.
• 12:34
  Speaker 3: Exciting. To just match her baby blue eyes.
• 12:37
  Speaker 7: Irene, you're going to.
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: You're not fooling me for one minute.
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  Speaker 6: You won't fool Edna either. She's going to know all
• 12:42
  Speaker 6: about this.
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  Speaker 7: You're not going to tell her about Helen.
• 12:44
  Speaker 6: Edna's my best friend.
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  Speaker 7: Irene, I think I've had just about enough of your meddling.
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  Speaker 6: Sir Charles, wait.
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  Speaker 3: Just about enough.
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  Speaker 6: You stay away from me.
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  Speaker 2: I ought to wring your neck, you little snoop.
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  Speaker 6: No, Charles.
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  Speaker 4: As she turns and starts to run, Myrene trips.
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  Speaker 3: You reach out to grab her, but you're too late.
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  Speaker 3: And she plunges off the end of the boat landing. Charles!
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  Speaker 6: Help me! Help me! I can't swim! Charles!
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  Speaker 3: You stand there staring down at her, struggling in the water.
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  Speaker 4: She can't swim, Charles. She'll drown if you don't help her.
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  Speaker 4: And you don't help.
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  Speaker 3: Her, do you, Charles? Two hours later, you're back in
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  Speaker 3: your house in town. where you await the inevitable call.
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  Speaker 2: Hello?
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: Gilbert?
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 10: This is Frank Stanley over on East Shore. One of
• 13:45
  Speaker 10: your neighbors?
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. Yes, Mr. Stanley. Good morning.
• 13:48
  Speaker 10: Would have called you sooner, except to have the devil's
• 13:50
  Speaker 10: own time getting a hold of your phone number up
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  Speaker 10: there in town.
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  Speaker 2: What is it? Something wrong? Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 10: A woman drowned off the island last night.
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Pitched her out of the water a couple hours ago.
• 14:02
  Speaker 10: Tom Jenkins, you know, he runs a gas station, said
• 14:05
  Speaker 10: this woman asked directions to your place last night.
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  Speaker 2: To my place?
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  Speaker 10: I thought you'd probably know her. Police found a purse
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  Speaker 10: on your boat landing. Identified her as Myrene Walker.
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  Speaker 3: Myrene... Good Lord, Myrene. You do know her?
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she's a very dear friend of my wife.
• 14:24
  Speaker 10: I'm terribly sorry, Mr. Gilbert.
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, look.
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  Speaker 7: This probably wouldn't have happened if I'd been out there
• 14:30
  Speaker 7: last night. I'd planned to, but business kept me here
• 14:33
  Speaker 7: in town. Myrene must have come out to visit us,
• 14:36
  Speaker 7: wandered around in the dark.
• 14:37
  Speaker 10: Yeah, that's the way I figured too.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. Thank you for calling, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Stanley.
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  Speaker 7: I'll get in touch with my wife right away.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: You smile, don't you, Charles, as you hang up the receiver.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: It's all over now. Myrene is dead.
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: You could have saved her, but you didn't. You couldn't
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: have her telling your wife about Helen, could you? Later
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: that day, you send a wire to Edna at the resort.
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: Inform her that you have some bad news. Ask her
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: to return immediately.
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  Speaker 3: And that evening, you're back at the house on Lido Isle.
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: As you hurry up the path, you're startled to see
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: a light burning in the living room.
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  Speaker 3: Helen.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: She's probably paid you a surprise visit.
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  Speaker 6: Good evening, Charles.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: Edna.
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  Speaker 6: Found the key under the mat, so I came on in.
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: I've been waiting hours for you.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: But I don't understand.
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: I sent the telegram only a few hours ago.
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: Telegram? You must have missed me. I left the resort
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: this morning.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: But why?
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Here.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: Perhaps this will explain.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: A letter?
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: Myrene sent it to me.
• 15:52
  Speaker 7: Myrene?
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: Yes, Myrene. She told me all about your little.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: Friend, Helen.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, now, Edna, surely you don't believe.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Irene wouldn't lie.
• 16:02
  Speaker 7: But, Edna, listen, I.
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: You do bother to deny it, Charles.
• 16:04
  Speaker 7: But you've got to let me explain.
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: Let's drop the matter here and now. You see, Charles,
• 16:11
  Speaker 6: I've thought it over very carefully. I've decided to forgive you.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Forgive me?
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: I'm really much more to blame for Helen than you are.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: I don't understand.
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: Perhaps I drove you to her. I haven't been a
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: very good wife, Charles. More than a little neglectful. Thinking
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: too much about business and not enough about us. Our home.
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: Our marriage.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Well, we haven't been as close in the past few
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: years as we.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: Used to be, have we?
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: I know, I know. It's my fault. I'm willing to
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: forget all this, Charles. But, of course, you must forget Helen.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, of course.
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: Fix me a drink, will you? I have to get one.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: I could use one myself.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: Charles?
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: You said something about a telegram.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Bad news, I'm afraid. It's about Myrene.
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: What's happened?
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  Speaker 2: Well, apparently she came out here last night while I
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: was in town.
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: While she was wandering around outside in the dark, she
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: fell off the boat landing.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: She... What?
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: She drowned, Edna.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: The police recovered her body this morning.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: My, Edna.
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  Speaker 6: Drowned?
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Easy now, darling. Oh, it's a terrible shock, I know. Here,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: this will help you.
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: Oh, Charles.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Poor dear.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, if I'd been here, I don't suppose it would
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: have happened. At least the lights at the boat landing
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: would have been on. And.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Wait a moment.
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  Speaker 6: You said you were in town.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, at the house all evening.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: But you weren't. What?
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: You weren't at the house in town. I know because
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: I called you from the resort half a dozen times.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: There was no answer.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: But I tell you, Edna, I wasn't... Where were you
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: last night?
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: Charles, where were you when Myrene had her... Accident. Answer me. Listen, Edna,
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: I wasn't... You were here when Myrene came. She knew
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: about Helen and you were afraid she'd tell me. You
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: didn't know she'd already sent me this letter, did you?
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Did you?
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: So I was here.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: And Myrene's death wasn't so accidental, was it?
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute. Where are you going?
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: To the sheriff's office.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Edna, listen.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: Let go.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: I didn't have a thing to do with Myrene's death.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: You've got to believe me. It was an accident.
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: Let the police decide that.
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: No.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Listen.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Let go, I said. No, Edna. You're not going to
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: the police.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Charles. Charles.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: Don't look at me like that.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: What do I do?
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: Edna.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: She's fainted, hasn't she, Charles?
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: And looking down at Edna lying unconscious before you, a
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: thought suddenly occurs to you.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: It's a way out, isn't it? A way out for
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: you and Helen.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Quickly, you pick up the folded sheet of paper, the
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: letter Myrene wrote to Edna, and stuff it into your pocket.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Then you carry Edna outside, place her in the car
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: that she drove down, drive it into the garage. close
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: the garage doors, leaving the motor running, and wait. Later
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: that same night, she'd drive Edna's body back to town
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: in her car, put it in the garage, again leave
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: the motor running.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: As you closed the garage doors.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Sorry, Edna.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: So long.
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: All of us are proud of our hometowns, and rightly so.
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: In this brief moment before we continue with our program,
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: we'd like to offer a salute to one of our
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: hometowns in America, Indianapolis, Indiana. Capital of the state and
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: a great transportation center, Indianapolis extensive trade is based on
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: the rich territory which surrounds it. Large coal fields, tremendous
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: deposits of building stone, and one of the richest sections
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: of corn and wheat in the world. But perhaps one
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: of the best-known features of the city to the world
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: at large is the Indianapolis Speedway. It was built in
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: 1909 as a proving ground for automobiles, and each Memorial Day,
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: the famous 500-mile race is held there. From the experience
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: gained in this annual event have come many improvements in automobiles.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Every time you used your.
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: Rear-vision mirror, every time you filled your tank with ethyl gasoline,
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: every time you appreciated the comfort of your improved tires,
• 21:06
  Speaker 8: you were giving credit to something that was first used.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: On that speedway.
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: Indianapolis has its famous citizens, too. Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: President of the United States, called it his hometown. So
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: did James Whitcomb Riley, the great Hoosier poet. And it
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: was the birthplace of General Walter Beadle Smith, chief of
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: staff of the American forces.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: In Europe during World War II. Nearly half a.
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: Million people live in Indianapolis today, and they're proud of
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: the part their hometown has played in the building of America.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: And now, back to The Whistler.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: You've carried it off very well, haven't you, Charles? The
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: role of the worried husband, concerned over his wife's whereabouts.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: And your phone call to the police brings quick results.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: An hour later, the sheriff calls on you at the
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: house on Lido Isles. Quietly informs you of your wife's death.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Carbon monoxide in the garage of your home in town.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: You continue to play the part now of the grief-stricken husband.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: And inwardly, you're pleased. Certain your performance has more than
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: convinced the sheriff. And then, Mr. Gilbert, you said you
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: were alone.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Down here last night.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. I.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I waited all night for my wife to show up.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: You sure she didn't?
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: No, of course not. She's never set foot in this house.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I bought it only a few days ago, shortly before
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: she went on her vacation.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: I see. Why?
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Why did you ask me that? I was just looking
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: at the painting of that dragon.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Impressionistic stuff, isn't it? Yes, that's right. I understand your
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: wife was always drawing.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Quite a doodler.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: It was just a nervous habit, though.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I was sort of wondering about that dragon design. Looks
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: kind of familiar.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: It's an original.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Sure is different.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: It was a present for my wife.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: She....
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: She didn't even get to see it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Maybe you better have a look at this. A letter?
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: No letter.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Just an envelope.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: It's addressed to your wife from someone named Myrene Walker.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: We found it in your wife's coat pocket. Well, what
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: about it?
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Turn it over.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: All right, but I don't see.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: I'd say that drawing was the work of a nervous doodler,
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: wouldn't you, Mr.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Gilbert?
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: And if your wife never set foot in this house,
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: how is it the sketch on the back of that
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: envelope is a doodler's.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Copy of that weird dragon painting on the wall?
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Well, Mr.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Gilbert.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: Featured in tonight's story were Bill Foreman as the Whistler,
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Lorene Tuttle, Jack Edwards, Lois Corbett, and Jack Moyles. The Whistler,
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: directed by Gordon T. Hughes, with music by Wilbur Hatch,
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: is written and produced by Joel Malone and transmitted overseas.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: By the Armed Forces Radio Services.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: The Whistler was entirely fictional and all characters portrayed on
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: The Whistler are also fictional. Any similarities of names or
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: resemblance to persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Our time with The Whistler and Design for Murder is complete.
• 25:02
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