Speaker 1: Tired of the everyday routine. Ever dream of a life
Speaker 1: of romantic adventure, want to get away from it?
Speaker 2: We offer you Escape Escape Transcribe to free you from
Speaker 2: the four walls of today for a half hour of
Speaker 2: high adventure.
Speaker 1: You were searching frantically through the dark, empty rooms of
Speaker 1: an apartment, panic, gripping your heart, terror at your heels
Speaker 1: for the girl you loved, who was with you a
Speaker 1: moment before, has disappeared, vanished as if into thin air.
Speaker 2: Today we escape from reality with the gripping tale of
Speaker 2: a girl who vanished and the man who had to
Speaker 2: find her to save his life. As Cornell Woolwich told
Speaker 2: it in his great story Finger of.
Speaker 3: Doom, nothing unusual ever happens to you, huh in your
Speaker 3: comfortable American city? Nothing ever could could it? Let me
Speaker 3: tell you something, right on the common, everyday streets of
Speaker 3: a big city, I had the strangest, most fantastic adventure
Speaker 3: anyone could dream of it, and I've had my fill
Speaker 3: of adventure for the rest of my life. This happened
Speaker 3: several years ago before the war, on an ordinary or
Speaker 3: evening in early spring, well not so ordinary, because I
Speaker 3: had a couple of free tickets to a good show,
Speaker 3: and I was picking Stephie up at her office for dinner.
Speaker 3: See we were going to be married in less than
Speaker 3: two weeks, so naturally I was impatient as I waited
Speaker 3: there on the sidewalk in front of her office building.
Speaker 3: And of course she was late, last one to leave,
Speaker 3: as usual. It felt like a picket, pacing up and
Speaker 3: down in front of the door, but only there she
Speaker 3: was spun, gold piled on her head, blue eyes shining,
Speaker 3: and carry.
Speaker 4: Hi, darling?
Speaker 5: What's that?
Speaker 6: Have I kept you waiting long? I try to hurry
Speaker 6: all I could with this. Just a package, I promised
Speaker 6: his nibs. I deliver it on the way home.
Speaker 3: You're not going home, we're reading out and going to
Speaker 3: a show.
Speaker 6: But it's right on the way. I have to leave
Speaker 6: it at a flat in Martin Street. It won't take
Speaker 6: a minute.
Speaker 3: Why can't he get somebody else to run his errands
Speaker 3: for him? We're late now, this will cut our eating time.
Speaker 6: Oh so this is what the thirteenth does to you.
Speaker 3: Thirteenth You mean you've forgotten?
Speaker 6: You mean you aren't counting the days?
Speaker 3: Oh sure, thirteen days.
Speaker 6: Left, thirteen and a half. Don't forget that half of
Speaker 6: it's to be a noon waddy. I don't like the
Speaker 6: thirteen all by itself. I'll be glad when it's tomorrow
Speaker 6: when only twelve left.
Speaker 3: You know something, You're cute. The more I know you,
Speaker 3: you're the cute of you get.
Speaker 6: I bet you won't say that a year from now.
Speaker 6: I bet you'll be calling me your old lady. Then mind, well,
Speaker 6: not ride at first? Maybe?
Speaker 3: Okay, come on, let's make like delivery boys. Or what's
Speaker 3: the address, mister Miller.
Speaker 6: Four fifteen Martin Street, apartment for it.
Speaker 3: We're on our way. Sure's a frowsy neighborhood.
Speaker 6: Everybody can't be rich, you knowough for eleven four thirteen?
Speaker 6: Oh there it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, some clients your boss must have. I'll be glad
Speaker 3: when you aren't working for him anymore. Oh would you
Speaker 3: give him your notice?
Speaker 6: Yesterday? He gave me the funniest look good thing. He
Speaker 6: doesn't know you. He'd eat you alive.
Speaker 3: I wait, huh here it is?
Speaker 6: Oh? I was sailing right by. See how you affect me?
Speaker 3: Okay, give it to the hall man of the janitor
Speaker 3: somebody and let's get going.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I've got to take it up personally and
Speaker 6: get a receipt. Besides, there doesn't seem to be anybody here.
Speaker 6: It's one of those push button doors. What did I say?
Speaker 3: The name was again Muller or something, wasn't it? What
Speaker 3: would I do without you?
Speaker 6: For a four B fourteen? Oh? Here it is four
Speaker 6: F No wonder I couldn't find it. The name card's
Speaker 6: fallen out. Oh this must be the button. You wait
Speaker 6: down here for me. I won't be a minute.
Speaker 3: A minute's too long.
Speaker 6: Well this will hold you until I get back.
Speaker 7: M Oh, the.
Speaker 6: Door only a minute now.
Speaker 3: Bye bye. For a minute, I watched it through the glass.
Speaker 3: She got into the little self service elevator and closed
Speaker 3: the door. Then all I could see was the gleam
Speaker 3: from the elevator in use light. Then she was gone.
Speaker 3: I lit a cigarette and waited. How long does it
Speaker 3: take to smoke a cigarette? Five minutes? Ten? Anyway, I
Speaker 3: finished it. Nothing happened. I stood around, fidgeting, shifting from
Speaker 3: one foot to the oven, from one shoulder leaning against
Speaker 3: the wall to the other. Woman came by with the
Speaker 3: squalling kid, gave me a haughty look.
Speaker 4: And went on in.
Speaker 3: Tried to figure out what could be taking so long.
Speaker 3: Maybe they didn't have a pencil to sign the receipt.
Speaker 3: Maybe they had to find one. Let another cigarette. Took
Speaker 3: a couple of puffs, but now my patience was gone.
Speaker 4: What is this?
Speaker 3: Rattled the door first, and then I pushed the button
Speaker 3: for apartment for f I still didn't plan to go up.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to let her know that I was
Speaker 3: still alive. But I got no answering buzz I kept
Speaker 3: ringing it, holding my thumb down till it was white.
Speaker 3: Still no answer. Suddenly I wasn't angry anymore. Suddenly I
Speaker 3: was scared. I did the instinctive thing. I ran out
Speaker 3: into the street again and looked up the face of
Speaker 3: the building, searching the windows. But of course there was
Speaker 3: nothing to see, and that move cost me a chance
Speaker 3: to get in. While I was out on the sidewalk,
Speaker 3: seedy looking character came out of the door, letting it
Speaker 3: click shut. Before I could get back in, I tried
Speaker 3: the buzzer again. Couldn't be out of water. They'd answered
Speaker 3: it when Staffy pushed it. Now nothing dead to the
Speaker 3: world up there by. Now it was twenty minutes, twenty
Speaker 3: minutes since she left me. Now I was frightened. I
Speaker 3: knew I had to get up there. I pushed another
Speaker 3: button anyone at random. The door was released and I
Speaker 3: was in for f was at the back of the building.
Speaker 3: I stood out in the dark hallway and listened. It
Speaker 3: wasn't a sound. First, this was a relief. At least
Speaker 3: she wasn't in any difficulty. She'd be screaming. But then
Speaker 3: when I began to knock and kick the door, practically
Speaker 3: break it down, and still nobody made a sound, and
Speaker 3: began to get panicked. Heads poked out of doors all
Speaker 3: along the hall. Where will I find the janitor down
Speaker 3: in the basement, I suppose. I raced down to the basement,
Speaker 3: found the janitor eating his supper. I barged right in.
Speaker 3: You're looking for something, come up with me quick. Will
Speaker 3: you bring your past care? I want to hope one
Speaker 3: of the flats.
Speaker 7: What's the matter? What's wrong?
Speaker 3: I don't like the looks up at My girl took
Speaker 3: a package up. I've been waiting for it for over
Speaker 3: twenty minutes and she never came down again. Now they
Speaker 3: won't answer the bell. Come on, please hurry.
Speaker 7: Oh Wi, your apartment? Is it on the fourth floor?
Speaker 7: Come on, I'll show you what number fore aft. But
Speaker 7: wait a minute, couldn't before. If not that one, why
Speaker 7: not because there's nobody living there. But that apartment's been
Speaker 7: vacant for six months.
Speaker 3: He took me up and showed me he was right.
Speaker 3: It was an empty flat. I went through its rooms,
Speaker 3: calling Stephie's name, but she wasn't there. There was nobody there.
Speaker 3: Looked like there hadn't been anybody there for months. The
Speaker 3: dust was thick on the bare floor, on the sills
Speaker 3: of the locked windows. She couldn't have come in here,
Speaker 3: but I saw her ring the bell and go in
Speaker 3: the door, in this door, the downstairs door.
Speaker 7: Oh well, she could have gone to any apartment there.
Speaker 3: But she was coming here. She rang this bell and
Speaker 3: somebody answered.
Speaker 7: Nobody could have answered. Nobody's been here. She must have
Speaker 7: rung another bell.
Speaker 3: Is there somebody in this apartment named Muller?
Speaker 7: No, we never had anybody by that name, not in
Speaker 7: the whole twelve years have been here.
Speaker 3: Somebody must have gotten in and was waiting for her.
Speaker 7: Will you tell me how they could? It was locked.
Speaker 7: You saw me open it with me past key. Didn't
Speaker 7: you listen.
Speaker 3: We're gonna ask all the tenants on this floor. Maybe
Speaker 3: they heard something.
Speaker 7: Wait a minute, I don't like to disturb them. Maybe
Speaker 7: this girl just walked out on you. Maybe it had
Speaker 7: a corner. Oh no, there was nothing like that. I
Speaker 7: know she wouldn't just walk out. Besides, how could she?
Speaker 7: Is there a back way?
Speaker 3: Yes, but only through the basement. She would have had
Speaker 3: to pass right by me. And you didn't see her.
Speaker 3: And I was waiting downstairs at the front door and
Speaker 3: she didn't come out that way. Then obviously she's still
Speaker 3: in here.
Speaker 7: Well maybe or maybe what I are you sure she
Speaker 7: ever come in?
Speaker 3: Of course you mean?
Speaker 7: Am I sure there ever was a girl? Now, don't
Speaker 7: get excited, mister. All right, we'll look we alast take
Speaker 7: it easy, Take it easy, Okay, you were anythinking? For uf?
Speaker 8: How could I the places?
Speaker 4: And I know?
Speaker 7: But didn't you hear something?
Speaker 8: Yeah, the buzzer was going like crazy, like somebody was
Speaker 8: leaning on the button downstairs.
Speaker 3: But that was Yeah.
Speaker 8: Then a little later this guy banging on the door.
Speaker 8: He asked me where to find you have a mine?
Speaker 7: Thank you? Sorry to have disturbed kid. Well that's all
Speaker 7: of them, no trace at all. Maybe now you let
Speaker 7: me get back to my shupper. There's nothing more we
Speaker 7: can do. Maybe figure o where she lives at work.
Speaker 3: She might find wait here, I'm gonna call the police first.
Speaker 3: I got a patrolman from the corner. He asked a
Speaker 3: lot of questions, and then called his station. A few
Speaker 3: minutes later, a detective was dropped off a fellow by
Speaker 3: the name of Gilmen. I must admit he was thorough.
Speaker 3: He checked on every apartment in the building. The only
Speaker 3: thing he learned was about the false ring which let
Speaker 3: me in. But there was only one, not two, and
Speaker 3: that meant that whoever buzz for Stephy was expecting. Gilman
Speaker 3: checked apartment for f thoroughly, the windows with their undisturbed
Speaker 3: layer of dust, the door, the keyhole, everything, And then
Speaker 3: he said.
Speaker 4: There's nothing to show that she or anyone else ever
Speaker 4: came in here.
Speaker 3: But look, don't do this to me. You make it
Speaker 3: sound like she didn't come here with me at all.
Speaker 4: That's what it does sound like.
Speaker 3: But don't you see, Look, I was gonna take her
Speaker 3: to a show. Here here are the tickets.
Speaker 4: Don't mean a thing. We're gonna build this from the
Speaker 4: ground up and see if they've got you. Say. Her
Speaker 4: name is Stephanie Risker, Address.
Speaker 3: One twenty Farragut. What she looked like she's blonde, and
Speaker 3: she came up to about here.
Speaker 4: I mean, okay, okay, don't let it get you.
Speaker 3: I'm not scared because she's gone. It's because she's gone
Speaker 3: in such a fairy tale way. She just disappeared into
Speaker 3: thin air.
Speaker 4: All right, let's get about finding her. That you met
Speaker 4: her at six fifteen outside the Bailly Goodlin building with
Speaker 4: the packets to be delivered here who she worked for?
Speaker 3: A press clipping service called a Green Star. It's one
Speaker 3: man organization operated by a man named Hessen, one dinky
Speaker 3: little room on the ground floor of the building.
Speaker 4: What do they do.
Speaker 3: I don't know much about it. They have a list
Speaker 3: of clients and they go through the paper and clip
Speaker 3: out any story which mentions one of the clients. They
Speaker 3: get about a nickeola clipping.
Speaker 4: How is there any money in that?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Okay, we're going up there. We'll find out.
Speaker 3: The night watchman let us into the office after Gilman
Speaker 3: showed him his badge. It was a tiny room with
Speaker 3: only a desk, a telephone, and another table in a
Speaker 3: filing cabinet. Except for a lone can of Canadian ace brew.
Speaker 3: All of them were bear as bones.
Speaker 4: He says no offices. Is a telephone booth, not a
Speaker 4: big business. I guess, hm, this is their list of clients.
Speaker 4: They can't be making very much money. Those prices stuff
Speaker 4: he got paid every week. There's nobody named Mueller in
Speaker 4: the file.
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 4: I don't see anything here to indicate to eat And
Speaker 4: as a secretary, you could ask the night watchman I
Speaker 4: already have he's never seen her.
Speaker 3: Well, but that doesn't mean anything. He works at night
Speaker 3: and she works in the daytime.
Speaker 4: Okay, I only said he's never seen her, doesn't know
Speaker 4: anything about her.
Speaker 3: Hassan her boss. You can ask him.
Speaker 4: We're going there next, and I guess you'll have a chance.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, here's something. What what kind of gum
Speaker 4: does your girl too?
Speaker 3: She doesn't likes life savers, hates gum.
Speaker 4: I'll ever sit to this table, choose gum. Let's have it.
Speaker 4: It's all over the bottom, tuty fruity.
Speaker 3: Oh, that doesn't mean anything. Maybe somebody came in put
Speaker 3: it there. Maybe it's all maybe Hessen.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's go. We'll see what he has to say.
Speaker 3: Hessen lived in a swanky bungalow type home in the
Speaker 3: suburbs as Gilman and I left the police car and
Speaker 3: walked up the drive to the house. I got the
Speaker 3: strangest feeling of on reality, like this was all a
Speaker 3: horrible nightmare, couldn't be happening. My knees were sagging. But
Speaker 3: then Gilman was knocking on the door, and it was
Speaker 3: answered by an ugly foreign looking character. Went away and
Speaker 3: returned to Usherson to Hessen's presence. I'd seen him a
Speaker 3: time or two, but he didn't know me, so he
Speaker 3: gave no sign of recognition.
Speaker 4: Good evening, gentlemen, mister Hessen, I'm Sergeant Gilman, Police Force.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, I'm pleased to know you. I won't take
Speaker 4: up much of time, but I need a little help.
Speaker 8: And gladly if it is within my power.
Speaker 4: Do you ever see this young fellow before?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 4: What has he done? I'm not sure yet. Do you
Speaker 4: know anyone named Muller at four fifteen Martin Street.
Speaker 8: Mueller, No, I don't know anyone by that name. I
Speaker 8: think we have a Miller or missus Elsie Miller on
Speaker 8: our list all the time. Divorces and remarries. Will that doo?
Speaker 7: She owes us.
Speaker 4: Twenty nine dollars And you didn't send the package over
Speaker 4: the Muller apartment four f four fifteen Martin Street at
Speaker 4: six fifteen this evening.
Speaker 3: No, why you loll it?
Speaker 8: You keep quiet and I'm sure I didn't, sergeant. But wait,
Speaker 8: it's easy enough to confirm it or miss Risker. Yes, Stephanie,
Speaker 8: will you please come in a moment?
Speaker 4: What steady?
Speaker 8: My assistant happens to be right here at the house
Speaker 8: to night. I had some dictation to give her, and
Speaker 8: she's transcribing it. We usually mail out clippings only when
Speaker 8: there's some urgent request. Do I send them by personal messenger?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir. Suddenly the room was spinning in front of
Speaker 3: my eyes. I was looking at it, trying to see it,
Speaker 3: but lights kept streaking across the room like commets, and
Speaker 3: their voices came to me through a thick fase.
Speaker 8: Tipphany did we send a package to four point fifteen
Speaker 8: Martine Street this evening to a mister Murmuller.
Speaker 7: No, sir, not that I know of.
Speaker 4: I see and tell me, did you ever see this
Speaker 4: young man before? Do you know him?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 3: No, I don't believe I did.
Speaker 7: Wait.
Speaker 3: Wait, this isn't Stephanie. He's calling somebody else by her
Speaker 3: name this isn't Stephanie.
Speaker 8: I tell you the idea, sir, this is the only
Speaker 8: young lady I have working for me.
Speaker 2: In just a moment, we will return to Escape. But first,
Speaker 2: mister and Missus X thought they were pretty smart, smarter
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Speaker 2: Raymond Chandler, the noted mystery story writer. And now with
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Speaker 2: as Gilman. We returned to the second act of Escape
Speaker 2: and finger of doom.
Speaker 3: Essen stood there and blandly said it. This strange girl
Speaker 3: was my fiance was Stephanie Risker. He stood there looking
Speaker 3: surprised and hurt, and she stared at me with a
Speaker 3: just right puzzled expression on her face. Gilman was holding
Speaker 3: me with a sort of a half nelson and gritting
Speaker 3: had stop it, stop it. But I tell you this
Speaker 3: isn't Stephie. Steffie is blonde. This girl is brunette. Steffie
Speaker 3: short comes up up to here. This one's tall. I
Speaker 3: tie it up.
Speaker 8: You're asking for trouble. I'll calm down, sergeant. I don't believe.
Speaker 8: I understand.
Speaker 4: I'm just beginning to myself. Miss. How long have you
Speaker 4: been working for mister Hesson.
Speaker 7: Why since October of last year, about six months?
Speaker 4: And your name is Stephanie Risker.
Speaker 3: Why yes, of course she's lying. I tear you up.
Speaker 4: I don't mean to doubt your word, miss, but just
Speaker 4: for the record, I suppose you could show me some
Speaker 4: proof of your identity.
Speaker 3: Why yes, I right here in my bag.
Speaker 7: My driver's license.
Speaker 4: Wait, the bag has initials where s R.
Speaker 6: Of course s R.
Speaker 4: And the driver's license.
Speaker 3: Steffie doesn't drive. She has no car, but I do.
Speaker 3: It isn't a very good one.
Speaker 4: Anything else This letter addressed to me address one twenty Farragut.
Speaker 4: May I look why, yes, of course, huh, it's genuine
Speaker 4: all right, Here.
Speaker 3: You are and I don't know what else I have here,
Speaker 3: but oh I'll get it.
Speaker 4: Here you are.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 4: I see you carry a chewing gum in your purse.
Speaker 4: Why yes to the fruity. Not many people like that flavor.
Speaker 3: I never chew any other.
Speaker 4: Well, thanks, sorry to have bother at you both.
Speaker 8: Come on, cham, I hope you've been able to help
Speaker 8: such a lap.
Speaker 4: Thanks, good night, good night sage. Okay, what's your racket kit?
Speaker 4: Are you a pushover for the mental ward? Or are
Speaker 4: you working off a grudge against this guy? Or did
Speaker 4: you do something to some little blond, blue eyed number
Speaker 4: and you're trying to set up an alibi even before
Speaker 4: we find out about it.
Speaker 3: Things like this don't happen. They can't. One minute she's
Speaker 3: here and then she's on. No one will believe me.
Speaker 4: Why should we? You haven't produced a single person all
Speaker 4: night who actually saw this blonde of yours.
Speaker 3: Where'd I get her name and address?
Speaker 4: Then that's one thing I'm not sure, So I'll give
Speaker 4: you one more spin for your money. You stand or
Speaker 4: fall by the place you lived one twenty Varrakeet Street.
Speaker 4: Come on, let's go.
Speaker 5: Okay, this is Ape.
Speaker 4: Come on, what is it? The rooming house?
Speaker 3: Yeah, she lived alone, just a room. She only came
Speaker 3: here from Harrisburg six months ago. But the landlit.
Speaker 4: No, it's the matter.
Speaker 3: I just remembered. Hessen recommended this place to her.
Speaker 4: I look, you want to go in, or you want
Speaker 4: to go to headquarters. The tougher you get with me,
Speaker 4: the tougher I'll be on. You listen, you gotta listen.
Speaker 4: I was only up there once, but I remember it.
Speaker 4: Sticking in the mirror of the dresser is a litho
Speaker 4: of the Holy on the radiators, a rag doll I
Speaker 4: won for a Coney Island in a hiccock wallet I
Speaker 4: gave her last Christmas. And on a shelf against the
Speaker 4: wall is a gas ring, and from the light fixture
Speaker 4: to the gas jet is a string where she hangs
Speaker 4: stockings to dry.
Speaker 3: Will you remember those things? The bedspread's green, and there's
Speaker 3: a green and yellow upholster chair. Don't you see I
Speaker 3: couldn't make these things up. She must be real.
Speaker 4: You almost convince me. Come on, and when we get inside,
Speaker 4: you keep your mouth shut one people, and I'll split
Speaker 4: your lip. Yes, got a girl named Stephanie Riska living here, yep,
Speaker 4: fourth floor front. How long has she been here, Risker?
Speaker 9: Six months?
Speaker 4: What does she look like?
Speaker 9: Dark hair, dark skin, about as tall as as this
Speaker 9: young fella talks kind of husky.
Speaker 4: Why police, I want to see her room?
Speaker 5: Sure, sure, come right in.
Speaker 3: Gilman practically had to support me all the way up.
Speaker 3: My knees just weren't functioning. But that was nothing to
Speaker 3: the shock I got when the landlady opened Steffy's door.
Speaker 3: The room was all different, Not one thing was the
Speaker 3: same as I had told gilmant. He didn't even look
Speaker 3: at me.
Speaker 4: She always had it fixed up.
Speaker 9: This way, always since the first week she moved in.
Speaker 4: Does she drive a car, Yeah, a little old coupe.
Speaker 9: She's a real clean rumor. Only one thing I got
Speaker 9: to complain about. Oh there it is again, under the washtend.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, chewing gum. Yeah, let me see it. Uh
Speaker 4: huh to the fruity.
Speaker 9: You better watch your friend. He looks like he's gonna faint.
Speaker 4: Let him fold up. That isn't anything to the falls
Speaker 4: he'd be taking in a few minutes.
Speaker 9: What did he do murderer?
Speaker 1: Not her?
Speaker 4: But I got a good hunt. She murdered somebody and
Speaker 4: he picked the wrong name out of the hat.
Speaker 9: He don't look like it.
Speaker 3: I hit him and ran. I know I had to.
Speaker 3: He was going to take me to the police station.
Speaker 3: Then I wouldn't have any chance to find Stuffy, not
Speaker 3: for a long time, maybe too long a time, And
Speaker 3: I had to find her. I went back to the
Speaker 3: Martine Street flat. It was the only place to go
Speaker 3: back to where she disappeared. Start from there. I knew
Speaker 3: Gilman would catch up with me sooner or later, but
Speaker 3: I and might be able to turn up something. First.
Speaker 3: I told the janitor the cops had sent me back
Speaker 3: to take another look at the apartment, and got him
Speaker 3: to give me the pass key. He fell for it.
Speaker 3: I went up to the apartment alone, but once there
Speaker 3: I couldn't find a thing. I wandered through the empty rooms,
Speaker 3: calling her name helplessly. I tapped the walls, scraped the plaster,
Speaker 3: tested the windows. I'd been there about ten minutes when
Speaker 3: I heard a little sound out in the hall, like
Speaker 3: somebody coming up the stairs very quietly. I slipped out
Speaker 3: the door and stood at the top of the stairs.
Speaker 3: He said. It was the janitor with Gilman and two cops.
Speaker 3: They were coming up the stairs. There was only one
Speaker 3: way for me to go up, so up I went,
Speaker 3: and then they saw me. One flight up. I came
Speaker 3: to the top of stairs. The sort of skylight window
Speaker 3: open under the roof were standing loose, partly open. I
Speaker 3: ran out across the roof. I tried to hurdle the
Speaker 3: low wall of the next roof. I missed. Fell I
Speaker 3: got you.
Speaker 4: Let delivered when I get down the.
Speaker 3: Hill, all right, quietly, no use, no well, I'll be
Speaker 3: what's the matter, Hello, throw your light over here.
Speaker 4: It's a package package lying here on the roof, addressed
Speaker 4: to Muller Apartment four.
Speaker 3: It that's it, don't you see? That's what she brought.
Speaker 4: Okay, ken, somebody did bring a package here tonight. I'll
Speaker 4: give you that. When I give you that, I guess
Speaker 4: I give you all of it. She's a never choose gum,
Speaker 4: doesn't drive all of it. Somebody must have jumped or
Speaker 4: brought her up this way, across the roofs and down
Speaker 4: through some other house. They dropped the package on the way.
Speaker 4: Maybe didn't have time to come back and pick it up.
Speaker 4: What will we do, Calhoun? Yeah, call in, have a
Speaker 4: radio car. I keep Hessen's house a myrtle drive spotted
Speaker 4: until we get there. I want to stop off of
Speaker 4: that office again. First, do you think no, no, kid,
Speaker 4: not yet. They would have done it right here in
Speaker 4: the empty flat and let you take the rap. Come on,
Speaker 4: buck up. We got work to do.
Speaker 3: At Hessen's office. We found two things.
Speaker 4: This is files funny, but every third name is a
Speaker 4: foreign one with a foreign mailing address. Why would those
Speaker 4: people want local press clippings?
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 4: I mean this looks like a job for the FBI.
Speaker 4: Spy stuff. Maybe your girl had found something out and
Speaker 4: that's why they figured she was too dangerous. Did she
Speaker 4: ever say anything?
Speaker 3: No, but she told him she was quitting next week
Speaker 3: to get married.
Speaker 4: So she didn't suspect anything that they thought she did.
Speaker 4: Same thing. Come on, we'll stop off at that rooming house.
Speaker 4: I want that landlady picked up. Obviously she's one of them.
Speaker 4: Changed the room all around, stuck the gum in at
Speaker 4: the war stand everything.
Speaker 3: Hey wait, look on the floor next to the baseboard.
Speaker 4: H kiled hair pin so she was blind.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's go, But the rooming house with the landlady
Speaker 3: turned over to a cop downstairs. Gilman went over the
Speaker 3: room once more, fished into the washbasin train and came
Speaker 3: up with a couple of blonde hairs.
Speaker 4: Now, why didn't I think of that the first time?
Speaker 4: Girls shampoos her hair once in a while.
Speaker 3: Then we were on our way to Hessen's house on
Speaker 3: Myrtle Drive. All the way I was praying. When we arrived,
Speaker 3: it was dark, deserted. Even the police car Gilman adored
Speaker 3: wasn't there. We went in, shooting the lock off the door.
Speaker 3: We searched the ground floor, then upstairs, in an attic
Speaker 3: room we found a short wave radio, but not Steffy.
Speaker 3: Just as we got back downstairs, Calhoun came in with
Speaker 3: a report from the radio car.
Speaker 1: They told him to Pierot seven North three ver Three
Speaker 1: of them got on a tramp steamer that sailed immediately.
Speaker 3: Then they're gone. It's too late.
Speaker 4: They won't get out of the harbor. Well, haven't picked
Speaker 4: off at quarantine. Three of them? You say, Calhoun, a
Speaker 4: blonde girl?
Speaker 1: Now, they said, two men and a dark girl.
Speaker 3: Then where's Staffy still here?
Speaker 4: Probably? But where we assume Wait, do you smell something smoke. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and gas only the basement.
Speaker 3: Come on, hurry, smoked, the basement's filled with smoke.
Speaker 4: Here over this way, stuffy staff, Hey, hurry, this place
Speaker 4: will be a massive flames in a minute.
Speaker 3: I can't see Steffi here here, give me a hand.
Speaker 3: Here she is, Hurry, Steffy, Steffy. No, no, she's breathing.
Speaker 4: Hurry, Let's get her out of here fast.
Speaker 3: In the next few minutes, there was a lot of
Speaker 3: excitement around there while the fire companies fought the fire,
Speaker 3: wet the ropes off Steffi and revived her. She was
Speaker 3: all right, and I sat there in the police car
Speaker 3: with my arms around her as if I'd never let
Speaker 3: her go again. And that's just how I felt too.
Speaker 3: Then a radio report came.
Speaker 4: In and they got him off the ship at quarantine.
Speaker 4: They'll be turned over to the FBI eventually, but first
Speaker 4: they better hadn't let me get my hands. And I'm
Speaker 4: no kid.
Speaker 3: She is pretty gee, thanks for everything.
Speaker 4: It's okay, Well I gotta go, and oh say, I've
Speaker 4: got something I want to return to you. Yeah, what this?
Speaker 3: I went out like a light when he hit me.
Speaker 3: And a few minutes later, Ny, when I came to
Speaker 3: Stephie was holding me.
Speaker 4: In her arms.
Speaker 3: Henny stroking my head and smiling.
Speaker 6: Kenny. He said to tell you no hard feelings. But
Speaker 6: when anyone sucks Dick Gilman over the head, he gets
Speaker 6: sopped back, even if they're the best of friends.
Speaker 3: You know something, what darling, you're cute with stars in
Speaker 3: your hair.
Speaker 2: Escape is produced and directed by Norman MacDonell. Today we
Speaker 2: have presented Transcribe Finger of Doom by Cornell Woolwrinch, adapted
Speaker 2: for radio by John Duncle starred as Kenny. Was Harry
Speaker 2: Bartel with Ed Begley as Gilman featured in the cast
Speaker 2: where Joy Terry, Edgar Berrier, Louise Arthur, Peter Prausse and
Speaker 2: Ky Miller. Special music was arranged and played by Ivand
Speaker 2: at Mars.
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