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The Whistler - ”Death Pays a Visit” (Old Time Radio, 1945) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Signal gasoline.
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  Speaker 2: Let every traffic signal remind you you do go farther
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: with signal gasoline. Yes, you do go farther with signal.
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: The signal oil company and your neighborhood signal dealer bring
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: you another curious story by the whistler Tonight, Death pays
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: a visit.
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: I am the whistler, and I know many things.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: For I walk by night.
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes,
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.
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  Speaker 3: The Crowleys are a typically young, married couple, the kind
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  Speaker 3: of people you have living on your block, a little
• 1:24
  Speaker 3: more prosperous than most, perhaps drive a better car, nicer clothes.
• 1:28
  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Funny too, because Jake Crowley only earns forty seven fifty
• 1:34
  Speaker 3: a week as assistant manager of a branch of Sellers
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  Speaker 3: National Bank, and the neighbors might be surprised to learn
• 1:41
  Speaker 3: that the Crowleys have only three hundred and twenty one
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: dollars and seventeen cents in their joint bank account. That's
• 1:48
  Speaker 3: not much a pittance, it seems to Trina Crowley, especially
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: when Jake tells her about how they came to have it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's all it's left, Trinough.
• 2:00
  Speaker 5: How much was it to begin with, Jake?
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  Speaker 4: Almost ten thousand.
• 2:03
  Speaker 5: Ten thousand dollars? Where's it gone?
• 2:06
  Speaker 4: Where do you think you wanted a new car? Didn't you?
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  Speaker 6: You insisted on that trip to Tahoe last summer or
• 2:11
  Speaker 6: asked for this house, didn't you?
• 2:12
  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: So I was the one at fold. I spent the money.
• 2:15
  Speaker 5: I suppose the next thing you'll be saying is that
• 2:17
  Speaker 5: I instigated the whole.
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  Speaker 6: We won't get anywhere this way. We've got to figure
• 2:21
  Speaker 6: a way out. I need your help, Jake.
• 2:24
  Speaker 5: I don't know anything about finance, and you told me before.
• 2:27
  Speaker 6: Yes, if post mortems aren't going to do any good,
• 2:30
  Speaker 6: the thing's done.
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  Speaker 4: Can't you get that through your head?
• 2:32
  Speaker 7: Yes?
• 2:32
  Speaker 5: I can get it through my head, and I won't
• 2:34
  Speaker 5: be talked to that way.
• 2:36
  Speaker 6: All right? All right, Trina, I'm sorry, I'm on edge.
• 2:40
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: One of the bank examiners you.
• 2:43
  Speaker 4: Next Tuesday, after the weekend.
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  Speaker 5: Can't you cover up somewhere? Isn't there something you can do?
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  Speaker 6: Nothing since that new manager's been in, I haven't had
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  Speaker 6: a chance to lay my hands on the accounts.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Jake, I don't know what to say.
• 2:54
  Speaker 6: It's it's the word is grand larceny, Trina.
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  Speaker 3: And that's how it began. Jake had stolen ten thousand
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  Speaker 3: dollars from the bank, and they had to do what
• 3:12
  Speaker 3: they did. They were desperate. They didn't seem to be
• 3:15
  Speaker 3: any way out, no way at all. Then there's no
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  Speaker 3: fate itself had planned it. The letter came, I don't
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  Speaker 3: like your precious cousin, Charlie. I wish he'd stay home
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  Speaker 3: where he belongs.
• 3:25
  Speaker 5: It's only for the weekend, Jake. He says in his letter,
• 3:28
  Speaker 5: he'd enjoy spending our wedding anniversary.
• 3:30
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm not going to enjoy having him. Oh stupid jokes,
• 3:33
  Speaker 6: he tells. I can hardly wait to hear that cheery
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  Speaker 6: laugh of his.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: And so the fella says, is this is the general store?
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: And the other guy says yes, And so he says, okay,
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: let me speak to the general Do you like that?
• 3:53
  Speaker 4: Not particularly?
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: Well, then there's the one about the two bookies who
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: went to heaven. And I told that to you.
• 4:00
  Speaker 6: Funny, it's sure is and you haven't told it, and
• 4:02
  Speaker 6: I haven't.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: Say that's good. That's real good.
• 4:07
  Speaker 5: Thanks cut Charlie. I've laid out some towels for you
• 4:10
  Speaker 5: if you want to fresh it up, and your room's
• 4:12
  Speaker 5: ready whenever you are.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: Oh he now, yes, I'll go upstairs. Eh, where's that
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: little traveling kit of mine?
• 4:20
  Speaker 5: So it's there with their suitcase. The head of the stairs.
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: Getting so I can't see a thing without my glasses.
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: Think i'll take my suitcase up too.
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  Speaker 5: I want to drop the i'll you seem to have.
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  Speaker 5: You seem to have a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the kid came up and didn't they it's in cash. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I just sold a piece of property of mine Missouri
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  Speaker 1: on the way out here. Funny old cod you brought in. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: inst I'm doing business in cash.
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  Speaker 4: Quite a lot of cash, by the way, the looks of.
• 4:50
  Speaker 5: It, it's an awful lot of money to carry around.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I haven't had a chance to deposit it yet.
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: You know the funny bible it is. I've been trying
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of that property for years and no
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  Speaker 1: one would touch And then suddenly this guy offers me
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars, just like a present. Yes, well, I
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: guess I'll go on that plan. Oh oh, happy anniversary. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'm a little too early for that. Well, anyway, happy.
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  Speaker 5: Anniversary, you know, Jake, I've been thinking as long as
• 5:19
  Speaker 5: Charlie has a guest tram.
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  Speaker 4: One thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 6: Did you say ten thousand dollars, Trina, it would more
• 5:26
  Speaker 6: than make up what I'm short at the bank.
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  Speaker 4: I know, but I don't ten thousand cheek.
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  Speaker 5: Good lord, Jakie.
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  Speaker 4: Charlie's got ten thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Whistler fans, many of you have been asking whether the
• 5:48
  Speaker 2: Whistler will follow the example of numerous popular programs in
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  Speaker 2: going off the air for the summer. Well, I'm happy
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  Speaker 2: to be able to tell you tonight that, in appreciation
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  Speaker 2: of your loyalty that has made the Whistler the most
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  Speaker 2: popular of all West Coast radio shows, Signal Oil Company
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: and the hundreds of neighborhood Signal Gasoline dealers who sponsor
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  Speaker 2: the Whistler will continue to broadcast this program without interruption
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  Speaker 2: throughout the summer. So for your Monday night radio entertainment,
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  Speaker 2: we of the cast hope you'll continue to make the
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  Speaker 2: Whistler a regular stop on your dial, and during the week,
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: we hope you'll stop at the friendly station's displaying signals
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  Speaker 2: yellow and black circle sign and get acquainted with the
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  Speaker 2: gasoline whose famous longer mileage formula helps each gas stamp
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  Speaker 2: go farther signal, go farther Gasoline. Yes, there never was
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  Speaker 2: a better time to join the ever increasing thousands of
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  Speaker 2: wise Western drivers who are discovering it's a fact you
• 6:44
  Speaker 2: do go farther with signal Gasoline. And now back to
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  Speaker 2: the Whistler. When Jake Crowley found out that cousin Charlie
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  Speaker 2: had ten thousand dollars in cash with him, his eyes
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  Speaker 2: went cold and hard. You've never seen him look like
• 7:19
  Speaker 2: that before, I had you, Trina. He stared intently, as
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  Speaker 2: though he were seeing something that no one else could see.
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  Speaker 2: For a moment you thought it was all in your mind,
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  Speaker 2: but you imagined.
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  Speaker 4: What Jake was thinking.
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  Speaker 3: But then you couldn't help but know Jake had plans.
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  Speaker 6: Would you rather see me go to prison?
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  Speaker 5: It might be better, Jake, better than this.
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  Speaker 6: You don't mean that, Trina, Oh, Jake, I don't know
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  Speaker 6: what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: I'm so confused.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing to be confused about, which can't afford to be
• 7:47
  Speaker 6: I thought the whole thing out last night.
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  Speaker 4: I think I know how it can be done.
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  Speaker 5: What do you intend to do?
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  Speaker 6: Do you remember Charlie saying he couldn't see very well
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  Speaker 6: without his glasses.
• 7:57
  Speaker 5: He's always been there sight.
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  Speaker 6: One of us has to get our hands on those glasses.
• 8:01
  Speaker 6: We break them, make it appear accidental. Of course, Nan,
• 8:05
  Speaker 6: I've typed this note here, look it over. We'll find
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  Speaker 6: some way to get him to sign it. He won't
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  Speaker 6: know what he's signing if he can't read it.
• 8:12
  Speaker 5: Looks all right? Are you sure this will leave us
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  Speaker 5: in the clear.
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  Speaker 6: Jake, Mistrena. All we have to do is get Charlie
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  Speaker 6: to sign it. What are you going to use for
• 8:22
  Speaker 6: the potassium cyanide? The encyclopedia says five grains are fatal.
• 8:28
  Speaker 6: I can buy it at a photography studio in town.
• 8:29
  Speaker 6: They use it for gilding pictures. That way I won't
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  Speaker 6: have to sign for Jake.
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  Speaker 5: I'm frightening, No you aren't.
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  Speaker 6: You aren't treating me. Understand when people get frightened, they
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  Speaker 6: get caught.
• 8:39
  Speaker 5: Remember that Charlie should suspect anything.
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: If Charlie should, Charlie should what Charlie, Warnie, my here's
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: a bernie. What were you saying about now?
• 8:49
  Speaker 5: Nothing? Nothing at all?
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: Oh? Yes, you were I heard you heard what well,
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: I heard you mention my name. I'll come on. What's
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: the secret?
• 8:56
  Speaker 5: Oh well, I was just telling Jake if you didn't
• 8:59
  Speaker 5: like upcakes for breakfast, I didn't know what I could
• 9:01
  Speaker 5: fix hotcakes?
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: Well, hotcakes in my every day Yes there.
• 9:06
  Speaker 5: Oh, wait a minute before you to sit down. This
• 9:09
  Speaker 5: this water face is stuck. What did you see? If
• 9:12
  Speaker 5: you can turn it for me? Please?
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: Why? Sure?
• 9:15
  Speaker 3: Thing?
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: Let me. I'm a regular happy man.
• 9:17
  Speaker 6: That's me.
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's you.
• 9:19
  Speaker 5: It's the hot water Force cold water works, all right, but.
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't seem to be anything the matter was. No,
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: it's just one of oyo that cold water.
• 9:31
  Speaker 5: Dear. I'm splattered your suit. I'm so sorry. Here, take
• 9:34
  Speaker 5: the stitch cloth, thank you. Let me have your glasses.
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: I'll drive right, I can do.
• 9:38
  Speaker 5: Let me do it.
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: I can okay, I don't know how.
• 9:43
  Speaker 5: Oh look what I've gone and done. I've broken your glasses.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was my only affair.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Charlie. I'm terribly sorry.
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: Well you've taken the first big step, Trina, and you're
• 10:05
  Speaker 3: hoping you won't be sorry for it. Jake goes on
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: to work and you and cousin Charlie lounge around the
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: house that afternoon, You're out on the sun porch trying
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: to read, but you can't concentrate. All you can think
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: of is how to get Charlie to sign that note. Then,
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: as if an answer to the question, an article in
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: the magazine caught your eye. There was the solution as
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: simple as that.
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  Speaker 1: What was it?
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: Jake said, People who get frightened get caught, Yes, become
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  Speaker 3: Trina and casual count Charlie.
• 10:41
  Speaker 5: Hmm. It's an interesting article. Have you seen it?
• 10:45
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 10:46
  Speaker 5: It's about the different specimens of handwriting. It says that
• 10:49
  Speaker 5: your entire character can be determined just by the way
• 10:52
  Speaker 5: you sign your name.
• 10:53
  Speaker 4: No.
• 10:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, It says if you circle your eyes instead of
• 10:57
  Speaker 5: dotting them, you're an extrovert. If you don't cross your t's,
• 11:01
  Speaker 5: you're an introvert. H What are you, Charlie? An extrovert
• 11:06
  Speaker 5: or an introvert?
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: Oh? I don't know anyway. I don't go in for
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: that handwriting stuff. It's a whole lot of bun Maybe
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: it's not.
• 11:15
  Speaker 5: They have a chart here that explains the whole thing. Charlie, Charlie,
• 11:22
  Speaker 5: write your name and let me see if I can
• 11:24
  Speaker 5: analyze your handwriting.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, I think I'd like to take a walk.
• 11:29
  Speaker 5: No, no, it'll take some other time. Huh. Can I
• 11:36
  Speaker 5: use my pants?
• 11:37
  Speaker 7: Go on?
• 11:38
  Speaker 5: Write your name on this piece of.
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Now are you satisfyed?
• 11:54
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I'm satisfied.
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: So far, so good, Trina. All you have to do
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: now is wait until Jake returns. Then the next step.
• 12:15
  Speaker 3: Jake's late getting home that night, Charlie, and you have
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: finished supper and he'd gone into the living room. You
• 12:21
  Speaker 3: were straightening up in the kitchen when you hid the
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: car turning in the driveway. Jake gave him the back door.
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: Jake, Jake and late?
• 12:32
  Speaker 6: Where'd you been stores with?
• 12:33
  Speaker 4: Jam?
• 12:33
  Speaker 6: I had to wait a long time at the photography studio,
• 12:37
  Speaker 6: and I got it. Did you get everything you're supposed to?
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: Yes? Here, Trina, you're.
• 12:43
  Speaker 5: Wonderful for the fate. For a while, I wouldn't he Charlie.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: Trina, I, Oh, Jake finally got home?
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: Eh?
• 12:50
  Speaker 4: Yes, Charlie, Well.
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: I uh, I had just come in to say good night.
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: Go to bed so early?
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: You gotta get my beauty wigs?
• 12:57
  Speaker 6: How good now, oh, cousin Charlie, we're just getting ready
• 13:01
  Speaker 6: to fix some tea won't.
• 13:02
  Speaker 5: Wait, Trina, Oh yes, yes, yes, Why.
• 13:06
  Speaker 6: Don't you join us in a cup before you turn in?
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: Well? No, thanks, I don't think so.
• 13:11
  Speaker 6: Good night, good night.
• 13:14
  Speaker 5: The idea of the tea?
• 13:16
  Speaker 4: This is it?
• 13:17
  Speaker 5: You mean? No?
• 13:18
  Speaker 4: Yes, this is perfect? Can't you see?
• 13:20
  Speaker 5: I'll put the water on it, Jake, let me see
• 13:26
  Speaker 5: that note again.
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: What's the matter with you?
• 13:27
  Speaker 5: You've seen it, but we might have left something out.
• 13:29
  Speaker 5: There might be some kind of a mistakes.
• 13:30
  Speaker 6: All right, Oh, it'll make you feel any better here.
• 13:35
  Speaker 5: They're treating Jake. I trust that you will forgive me
• 13:39
  Speaker 5: for what I've done. The one loses his desire to live.
• 13:42
  Speaker 5: This is the only way you'll find ten thousand dollars
• 13:45
  Speaker 5: in my traveling kid. I want you to have it.
• 13:48
  Speaker 5: Call up my anniversary present to the both of you.
• 13:51
  Speaker 5: I have no explanation to offer other than the fact
• 13:54
  Speaker 5: that I've grown weary and perhaps a little old. I've
• 13:58
  Speaker 5: lived my life now and I wish to take it
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: by my own hands. Please try to understand love from
• 14:05
  Speaker 5: your cousin, Charlie Button.
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: Is there anything wrong with that?
• 14:09
  Speaker 5: No? No, I guess not.
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: Put this in this cup. There's ten grains here.
• 14:12
  Speaker 6: All right, mate, Jake what's the matter.
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: Now the police will ask for he got the pusson Trina.
• 14:17
  Speaker 6: Trina, don't you think I've thought of that? Charlie must
• 14:20
  Speaker 6: have found it in the desk. I used it last
• 14:23
  Speaker 6: summer for developing pictures. No many, Please get a hold
• 14:26
  Speaker 6: of yourself.
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: Take the tea upstairs.
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: Oh, Jake, I'm afraid I'm going to be sick.
• 14:32
  Speaker 6: I'm not anything of the kind. You're all right, it's
• 14:34
  Speaker 6: all planned perfectly. I'll take the tea up to Charlie.
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: All right, go ahead up the stairs.
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: Yes, here's your tea, Cousin, Charlie.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Now it's done.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: You and Jake spend a sleepless night, don't you, Trina, listening, wondering, waiting,
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: And then in the morning.
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: I don't want to go up there, Jake, I just can't.
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: All right, you don't have to let me have the
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: suicide note. I'll take it up and put it on
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: the lampstand.
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: Do we have to call the police this morning, of course,
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: But there's nothing to worry about.
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: We simply tell them I went upstairs to call him
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: for breakfast and found them well that.
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: Way, Jake, Jake, are you sorry we've done it?
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: Listen Trina, I was thinking last night there may be
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: more than ten thousand in this for us. Charlie's a
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: rich man, isn't he. I think there is only living relative,
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: aren't you all right? He's almost certain to have mentioned you,
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: and as will. Do you realize what that means?
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: Trina? We'll be rich rich?
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: Check?
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: It must be wonderful to be rich.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: You bet, Trina, we're both alike. I think that's why I.
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: Love you so much and I love you check, I
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: always will.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: There's nothing she wasn't.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Oh you know I must have fallen right to sleep
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: last night that that cup of tea didn't get a
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: chance to drink it. But thanks anyway, Well, what are
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: you staring at me for it? And I forget something?
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: A lot? Have you got for breakfast?
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: Breakfast?
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: Yes, breakfast, Trina?
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Oh? Eggs? Fine? How about dishing me up a platter.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of in a hurry. You know, I thought
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: i'd go into town this morning get me a pair
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: of temporary.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: Glass I'll fix you something right away, we'll say.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: I meant to tell you I used your phone for
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: a long distance call yesterday. I hope you don't mind.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I have to call my foreman, one of my ranchers
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: were going in large. Yes, only gotten okay of some
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: building material, pig, and I'm going up to look it
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: over day after tomorrow.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: You told the foreman you'd be there day after tomorrow.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm, hell Domana, how about those eggs?
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm I'm sorry right away, cousin Charlie, Well, Jake,
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: and you are lucky, Trina.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: It was an almost miraculous stroke of luck. If Charlie
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: had drunk the tea after making that phone call to
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: his ranch, you would have been doomed. A man planning
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: suicide wouldn't be planning the enlargement of his ranch.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: At the same time.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: The police would have checked with the foreman and immediately
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: become suspicious. They would have questioned you, and from that
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: they wouldn't have found it difficult to piece it all together. Yes,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: you are lucky, but your problem isn't solved that evening, Trina.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Did Charlie get back.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: He's in the front room listening to the radio.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Did you get us glasses? Yes? Good, that solves the problem.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: Oh, Jake, not again.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: There's only two days left tree Listen.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: This is fool proof.
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: We asked him to go into town for some candles
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: for the anniversary cake. I loaned my car. Are off
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: and the roads are slippery with snow. I've loosened the
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: bolt and the master cylinder of the brakes. By the
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: time he starts back from town, all of the hydraulic
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: fluid will.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Have leaked out.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: The breaks won't hold.
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: Called Charlie, oh Ja, here are the keys, Charlie. And Charlie,
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: on your way back, take the highway along the river.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: You can make better time, ok, yes, be sure the hurry.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Charlie took the keys and started out of the front door.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: And as that door closed behind him, somehow you felt relieved.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Tree now almost exhilarated. Nothing further to worry about. Everything
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: accomplished and poured out. Charlie, who was the key to
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: that realization? You stood by the window, not bothering to
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: look out, not wanting to. You listened for the door
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: slam and for the motor to start, but you didn't
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: hear either. Instead, you heard a voice calling, cousin, Charlie.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: Sounds like it's on the porch. Open the door, Charlie.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: What's the matter?
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: I slipped on the steps. I don't seem to be
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: able to get up.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Hip me in a hand when you're here. Be careful.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: These all right, take it easy, Charlie, Come on, it
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: hits my ankle.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid I've sprained.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, he sprained his ankle, so you called a doctor
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: who came over and taped cousin Charlie's leg. He advised
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Charlie to stay in bed and rest up, and he
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: would pay him another.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Visit in the morning.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Jake is furious the thing is getting to be an
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: obsession with him.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: I don't care, Trina, I don't care what's gone wrong.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: We can't wait any longer.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: We can't, Jake, Jake, what's gotten into you? Why do
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: you look that?
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: Why do I look?
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: What way?
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: There's nothing wrong with me, just that this thing's getting maddening,
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: that's all.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: We won't be able to do it, Jake. You can
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: see that it just wasn't meant to be.
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: It was meant to be all right, and it's going
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: to be.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: No.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Don't you realize, Jake, there's something bigger than you or me.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: There's nothing bigger than you or me.
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: Not now. I planned this affair. I'll make it work.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: Oh yes, I say, listen to me. You've kept up
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: the insurance on the house. All right, this is the
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: last time.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: This is the time.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: We'll do it. There's plenty of kerosene in the basement.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: It'll work, it's got to you don't mean it. We'll
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: burn this infernal house to the ground, and cousin Charlie
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: with it shut up. We'll be in the garage looking
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: over the car breaks. We won't notice the fire until
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: too late. Charlie started with a cigarette accidentally, he was
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: smoking in bed.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: He's crippled. He'll never be able to get down the stairs.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Of course, that's the idea.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: You wouldn't do that.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: We can, We will, Trina. We've gone too far to
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: stop now. Hello, Charlie, how do you feel.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: A little better? Thanks? He's some I'm sort of spoiling
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: your anniversary.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: Oh no, of course you are, Charlie. You have our sympathy.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Oh no, there's no need to feel sorry for me.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: It's just a little spring.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: Say Charlie. That money of yours, don't you think Trina
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: and I had better put it away for you?
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Nobody's gonna rob.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Me, No, of course not.
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: I just thought, well, we have a wall safe downstairs,
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: and then as much as you're laid.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Up, well, come to think it might not be a
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: bad idea. Oh, there's my traveling kid over there. Take
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: it down with you. Fine, Hey, Trina, have you got
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: in the can there?
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's Kethine. We were just going down to the
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: fence and thought we'd eat your.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Room up a little for you. Oh oh, I've spilled it.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: I'll get a cloth and clean it up right away.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Oh no, don't you bother it, it'll dry up.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: You're sure you don't, mar?
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: Oh no, we'll say I was able to pick up
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: a pack cigarettes, Charlie, in case you'd like a smoke, Well.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you, but you'd better keep And you see I
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: don't smoke.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: You don't know.
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: Oh well, that's right, that's right. I forgot Come on, Trina,
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: we better go downstairs.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: What was it the poet said about the best laid plans?
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Jake seems that whatever you try, you're wrong. Perhaps Trina
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: was right. He just wasn't meant to be. But you
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: can't give it up now.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: But Jake, regardless, why can't we tell the police that
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: started with a cigarette.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: Don't be a fool. Don't you think they discovery didn't smoke.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: We gotta find something besides a cigarette.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: What true?
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: Oh, I'll get it. Hello speaking, Oh hello Evans, Yes, yes,
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: what they're on the way over here now. Yes, Yes,
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: I'm glad you called. Thanks, good bye?
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: What is it?
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: Cheeck?
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Jake? What's wrong?
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: They discovered the shortage at the bank. They must have.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: That was Evans, my police report a friend, He says.
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: The cops are on their way over here now. Evan
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: said he thought I'd like to know he's a nice guy.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Wow, I thought the bank examiners weren't.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Doing I don't know how, Trina.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: You said you loved me.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: I do check Heaven helped before it.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: But I do. We'll run away, you and I.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: If we're caught, we will be if we stay here.
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: We've got to leave, Trina. We got Charlie's ten thousand.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: Maybe we'll be able to start it again somewhere else.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: Not everybody gets caught, Trina. If we play it smart
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: and stick together, people forget about the whole thing in
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: a couple of years. Say will you come with me?
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Trina?
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Yes, Jake, you know I'll come.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: Are you afraid? No?
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Not anymore.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: They're probably at the house by now, jee, do you
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: have to drive so fast?
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: I'll be looking for us pretty soon.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: But you're doing almost seventy in the road.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, what is it? Yai?
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Good lord?
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Yes, you forgot good night.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: The whistler will return in just a moment with the
• 24:38
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• 24:53
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• 24:57
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• 25:00
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• 25:04
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• 25:11
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• 25:28
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• 25:34
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• 25:50
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• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Well.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: In their haste to get away with cousin Charlie's ten
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: thousand dollars, Jake and Trina I forgot one important little thing.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: The breaks Jacob drained the breake fluid in the attempt
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: to murder cousin Charlie. But now speeding along the icy
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: river road, it was too late. You can probably guess
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: what happened. It was pretty messy, and back home, Cousin
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Charlie had a caller.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, good evening, officer, good evening. Come here. I'm sorry
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I took so long.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Dancew I Crowley residents.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, as a matter of fact, it is, But
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: mister Crowley doesn't seem to be home. I'm Charlie Barton,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: missus Crowley's cousin.
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: Good you're the one I'm working for anyway.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, what can I do for you for the department?
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: Got a call from out west somewhere somebody trying to
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: get a hold of you, something about some property out there.
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: Didn't know where to reach you here in town, so
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: they ask us to track you down. Uh, here's the
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: name of address.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Yes, thank you. Excuse me the telephone?
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: Oh sure, sure, gohad thank you.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Hello. Mm yes, this is the Crowley resident. No, no,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: this is Charlie Barton, I miss Crawley's cousin. They hight
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: what oh oh oh.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: That's that's terrible.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it's two to identify the bodies.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Of course.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I have get something to drive me down immediately.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Uh do what.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Ten thousand dollars?
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: That's strange.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Well, I was going to give them ten thousand dollars
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: for an anniversary present.
• 28:21
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• 28:24
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