Speaker 1: Night Beat.
Speaker 2: Hi, this is Randy Stone. I cover the Nightbeat to
Speaker 2: the Chicago Star. You know, stories start out in many
Speaker 2: different ways. Tonight's story started when I walked into a
Speaker 2: nice little guy's private world and it blew up right
Speaker 2: in my face.
Speaker 3: Nightbeat, starring Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone.
Speaker 2: When the street cars and the subways spill out their
Speaker 2: thousands of tired ones who scurry off into a million
Speaker 2: directions to find home, that's when my job begins. I
Speaker 2: start walking looking for my story so that you can
Speaker 2: read about it in your morning newspaper and feel good
Speaker 2: because it didn't happen to you. Tonight I got my
Speaker 2: story fast, just walking down Madison Street West away from
Speaker 2: the Center. I kept walking past the shooting Gallery, the
Speaker 2: Nicol Arcade with the peak shows and the fortune telling machines,
Speaker 2: the juke box taverns, football Madison Street, the Quick Route,
Speaker 2: the happiness were the world's worst hangovers, And then straight
Speaker 2: ahead of me was Pop Gordon's training gym. That's where
Speaker 2: the public pays thirty cents to watch fellas training to
Speaker 2: beat each other's brains out. You know, when I got inside,
Speaker 2: it looked like just one of those fights, and then
Speaker 2: I heard one voice over the other. It was a
Speaker 2: voice on you, Carla, cops.
Speaker 4: And get that punchy loon out of here.
Speaker 1: Probably your laugh of me.
Speaker 2: What's a matter of pu Yeah, this crazy howl is
Speaker 2: gonna tear off his rocker.
Speaker 1: But that's billy. Yeah, tell me, Carla, cop.
Speaker 2: Wait a second, Pop, he's all right, sure sure, listen
Speaker 2: to him.
Speaker 1: I tell you, anybody lad glove on me gets tell
Speaker 1: you one place for a loon like that in the
Speaker 1: bug house.
Speaker 5: I'm going to get the cops and heavy owl tied up.
Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute, Pop, let me talk to him.
Speaker 1: Man, you stay away from that log.
Speaker 2: Five of us couldn't hold him. He knows me, Andy,
Speaker 2: The guy's gone nuts.
Speaker 6: Yella.
Speaker 2: Like I said, everybody's scared of get in the same billy, Billy,
Speaker 2: What hi, billy, how's it going?
Speaker 1: You're coming there with me?
Speaker 2: Oh sure, sure, and make me a big man getting
Speaker 2: into the same ring with a champ.
Speaker 1: That's me champ, and you're a toe bit boom.
Speaker 2: Well that's a thumbnail description.
Speaker 1: If I ever heard one admit it the truth that
Speaker 1: to bad Bump admitted it.
Speaker 2: I admitted, I admitted, billy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're no minute, you're laughing at me. Let
Speaker 1: the rest stop me.
Speaker 2: You're laughing, Billy, I never laughed at you in my life.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll show you what happens to anybody who loves
Speaker 1: that Billy the cancer snut.
Speaker 2: As the world flew away in all directions, I dimly
Speaker 2: remembered how the sports writers used to speak so respectfully
Speaker 2: of Billy's fast left hand. But brother, if they know
Speaker 2: what I just found out about his right. When the
Speaker 2: fog finally cleared, Pop Gordon was bending over me, and
Speaker 2: there were a lot of other faces too, But I
Speaker 2: didn't see Billy when.
Speaker 1: I stood up. Okay, Randy, Oh, this.
Speaker 2: Is being okay, I don't want any part of it.
Speaker 1: He slugs you. But good? Where is he?
Speaker 5: I took off before the cops come, took off before
Speaker 5: anybody could grab whom. I let that bum come in
Speaker 5: a gym and shit around. Everybody else plays thirty cents
Speaker 5: but him.
Speaker 1: I let him free. Was he do?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 1: What's she doing? But Slucy blows his top?
Speaker 2: But why what happened to Billy?
Speaker 1: Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 5: Tonight I catch him putting the bite on my customers.
Speaker 2: Too, cheer with dime there Billy was panhanps. Sure, like
Speaker 2: I said, I didn't like it, so I tell him
Speaker 2: and then I don't know. I'm over at the other
Speaker 2: side of the gym. I hear somebody laugh, and the
Speaker 2: next thing I know, the out swinging like a windmill.
Speaker 2: He's gonna kill everybody.
Speaker 1: Just for being around. You ought to be tied up.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, just like that.
Speaker 5: He ain't safe.
Speaker 2: But do you want the black Mariah to come around
Speaker 2: cart him away like a load of rubbish?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but for his own girl, pap.
Speaker 2: Remember when he was champ he packed him in every
Speaker 2: club where he fought. He had a dollar of five
Speaker 2: dollars for anybody who held out a hand.
Speaker 1: Sure, what are you getting now?
Speaker 2: Well, now he's got no one pop and now he's
Speaker 2: out in the colt.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'll forget the cops.
Speaker 1: But we still got to put him away.
Speaker 2: Well all right, sure, but let's do it as painless
Speaker 2: as possible. I'll keep him with me tonight and then
Speaker 2: tomorrow you going after him?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Which way to go?
Speaker 5: Straight up the streets. But watch out, Randy, he blows.
Speaker 2: His I know, don't worry. I don't want any rematch.
Speaker 2: I'd like to know why he blew his lit the
Speaker 2: first place, and my jaw in the second place. I've
Speaker 2: known Billy a long time, a sweet, gentle guy who
Speaker 2: always seemed to be living in a world all of
Speaker 2: his own, a world that nobody else knew about and
Speaker 2: cared less. And now he was in trouble. In his mood,
Speaker 2: he might hurt someone.
Speaker 1: All worse, he.
Speaker 2: Might get himself hurt. I must have walked for half
Speaker 2: an hour before I finally spotted him. He was standing
Speaker 2: on the corner. I stopped and watched him for a
Speaker 2: couple of minutes. I watched his hesitant and embarrassed panhandling,
Speaker 2: and I walked over to him slowly.
Speaker 1: Hello, Billy, what? Oh hi, Hi you Randy o'palloi.
Speaker 2: You want some company?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Sure, sure, righty? Why you've been keeping yourself. I've seen
Speaker 1: you for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: You haven't seen me for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Well, I thought maybe you'll forget it.
Speaker 2: Oh, Pa, you're not the kind of a fellow one
Speaker 2: for against Jim. Now what was the trouble back at
Speaker 2: the gym?
Speaker 1: Jim? What Jim Pop Gordon's Pop's boys. Well, let's goore,
Speaker 1: I gotta help pop. He's a good joy.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: He never charges me nothing to hold.
Speaker 2: In a second, Billy. Yeah, weren't you with the gym tonight?
Speaker 1: Oh no, not that I've been here and you didn't
Speaker 1: massage my chin. You're giving me a rib? What you're
Speaker 1: looking at me for? I like that, Randy, forget a Billy.
Speaker 1: You was just ribbing.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: I like ribs, not giving the hot foot, nothing like that,
Speaker 1: but funny ribs that don't hurt nobody. Sure can? I
Speaker 1: asked you a sixty four dollars question? Was sure?
Speaker 7: Not you?
Speaker 1: You can ask me anything, Randy, anything.
Speaker 2: I saw you a minute ago, Billy, But I never
Speaker 2: seen you ask for a touch before.
Speaker 1: I ain't never gone to do it no more. But Randy,
Speaker 1: I got it tonight. I gotta get a few bucks,
Speaker 1: maybe fifteen. I already got two dollars. Maybe. Why do
Speaker 1: you need fifteen dollars?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: I gotta get a new suit? A new suit? What's
Speaker 1: so special about tonight? Billy? What that that? There's something
Speaker 1: I gotta do it? I just gotta do it, Randy,
Speaker 1: I gotta have fifteen. But I hate them, Scott, Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh Sullivan, Randy, don't let him pick me up for panhammon.
Speaker 2: Please, No, I won't, Billy. Now you wait here, wait here, I'll.
Speaker 1: Be right back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Filly back there. And then yeah, that's right, Sullivan.
Speaker 1: Whe heard you had a little trouble with him back
Speaker 1: at the gym. Maybe we ought to put him in
Speaker 1: the tank for the night. Keep my mout of trouble.
Speaker 2: Look, look, Sullivan, h he's going away tomorrow for a
Speaker 2: long time, all like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that that's it. This is his last night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I see. Okay, good, that's the way I do it myself.
Speaker 2: Let's see you around, rdy, but keep an eye on him.
Speaker 2: To Michael Hawk, thanks Sullivan, and so on.
Speaker 1: What I say, Randy, they ain't gonna pick me up
Speaker 1: for it, and they ain't going.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, of course not. Look, Billie, how'd you
Speaker 2: like to come to my apartment for a while.
Speaker 1: I can't. I told you I got to get fifteen bucks. Well,
Speaker 1: I we'll talk about it. I gotta get it tonight. Now.
Speaker 1: I gotta get a new soup because because you're go
Speaker 1: going why I can't be wearing this crummy rag when
Speaker 1: I see her, not when when I see her, I.
Speaker 2: Didn't know what he meant. But whatever it made him
Speaker 2: go crazy at the gym, whatever it made him hit
Speaker 2: me was tied in with her. Who she was I
Speaker 2: didn't know, and I wasn't sure that he knew. I
Speaker 2: finally talked him into going to my place, and when
Speaker 2: we went in, I watched that slow, gentle smile.
Speaker 1: I'll come over his face. Hey, this place is a
Speaker 1: number one. Yeah it's not, Billy, I ain't got much time.
Speaker 1: Just a compliment. Yeah, okay, I'm awful tired, Randy. Seems
Speaker 1: like a lot of things has happened tonight. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of tired.
Speaker 2: Sure, I want to drink Billy. Oh No, I never
Speaker 2: touch it, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you never penhandled before. But I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: do that no more. Just to night. I never bummed
Speaker 1: off and nobody. I paid my own way, come anything,
Speaker 1: I paid my own way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I want to know why you're putting
Speaker 2: the bite on people tonight.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna tell you you're you're laugh I won't laugh.
Speaker 1: You will. Somebody else laughed when I told her. Somebody laughed,
Speaker 1: And well when when somebody laughs at me? I don't
Speaker 1: like it? All right?
Speaker 2: Easy, but easy.
Speaker 1: I tell you, I got to get fifteen books. Hey,
Speaker 1: look look at this. What's that? Billy? I cut it
Speaker 1: out of the paper today. I've seen it. You take
Speaker 1: a look at it. You'll read what I said.
Speaker 2: Missus Walder Compton and her husband. Yeah, yeah, gone, that's
Speaker 2: more prominent society leaders of New York will be in
Speaker 2: town tonight.
Speaker 1: They're staying at the lake Shore, and I can't go
Speaker 1: there in this crummey rag. Why do you have to
Speaker 1: see her?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 1: Well? I gotta tell her something. It's getting late, Randy,
Speaker 1: I got a kid.
Speaker 2: I'll lend you the fifteen dollars.
Speaker 1: Billy you Oh no, no, I pay my own way.
Speaker 2: We'll pay it back whenever you get a john.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't want any handoff.
Speaker 2: It's just a loan, Billy, it's a loone.
Speaker 1: What uh? Thanks? Randy, you're a champ.
Speaker 2: Now, Now tell me why you gotta see her.
Speaker 1: You ain't gonna laugh. I can't take anything but that.
Speaker 2: I won't laugh, Billy, No, I guess you wouldn't. Okay,
Speaker 2: you remember once I was champing. Oh, everybody knows you
Speaker 2: a champ?
Speaker 1: Now? What about her? Missus comfort? Yeah, Well, it's one
Speaker 1: night after a fight. See, I ain't champ. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's one fight. She ain't there. So I go to
Speaker 1: see her at her place. She's there, she's there. So
Speaker 1: one of them.
Speaker 6: Who's there?
Speaker 1: It's me, billy? Where are you? Sure? Hey? I win tonight?
Speaker 1: I said I went tonight, isn't it? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I heard on the radio?
Speaker 1: Well, well what it don't mean a thing?
Speaker 4: Sure means a lot.
Speaker 1: I guess you guess a kid for a dollar, who's
Speaker 1: gonna marry the next middleweight champ? You should take things
Speaker 1: like a lump of eyes. Yeah, and Noah, anything wrong?
Speaker 4: Nope, there is okay, something's wrong. Have it your way.
Speaker 1: You wasn't at the fight tonight, Baby, I look for you.
Speaker 1: It took me three four rounds to get gone because
Speaker 1: I didn't see it. You won? Ah, kid, look at me?
Speaker 4: Surely the eye got torn open again?
Speaker 2: Her?
Speaker 1: Oh it's nothing. Colodion fixed.
Speaker 6: This colodion fixes everything. Huh, get cut up?
Speaker 4: Use colodian. That's nice. I'd put you all together again.
Speaker 4: How long do you think you'll stay together?
Speaker 1: What's eating on you? Honey? The last two three weeks,
Speaker 1: the last.
Speaker 4: Two three weeks, the last two three years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, I hate it. I hate what. Oh
Speaker 1: shut oh kid, kid, what's wrong you and me? I
Speaker 1: don't get it.
Speaker 4: The only thing you do get is amazingly few bucks
Speaker 4: for getting your head knocked off.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm a fighter.
Speaker 4: Oh you're a fighter, all right, fight, but caught me out?
Speaker 1: Oh no, wait, I've been waiting.
Speaker 4: I've been waiting for him to carry you home.
Speaker 2: Me me, the can't happen.
Speaker 1: Huh Well, all of a sudden you start blowing your top.
Speaker 4: Not all of a sudden. You said it. You said
Speaker 4: there was something wrong for the last two three years.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, spill it.
Speaker 6: I'm through, Billy, washed up, finished, You and me done.
Speaker 1: Since when? Since?
Speaker 4: Right now?
Speaker 1: Oh baby, it's just the eye. You see me this
Speaker 1: way and the eye. Don't laugh at me. Don't laugh
Speaker 1: I take anything, but being laughed at it is a laugh.
Speaker 4: Oh No, I don't care if you get punched all
Speaker 4: over the state.
Speaker 6: I don't care if you get your brains rattled so hard.
Speaker 4: A may I care about from now on?
Speaker 1: Okay, so I'll be champed, so you'll get your fur court.
Speaker 6: From you, not from a guy who's beginning to look
Speaker 6: like a punching bag instead of my man.
Speaker 4: Look at me, take a good look.
Speaker 1: I am, Yeah, I am.
Speaker 4: I got looked, I got plass. I can do all right.
Speaker 1: I still don't get it all right.
Speaker 4: I'll lay it on the line for you want me to.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna tie myself to a punchy character.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna have to walk in nice place with
Speaker 6: a guy whose faces well, how I go on, take
Speaker 6: a look in the mirror.
Speaker 1: You say what I mean? You want me to quit?
Speaker 4: I don't care if you do or not. Because it's
Speaker 4: too late, Billy, it's too late.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't see it. That's the way it was, Randy.
Speaker 1: That that's the way it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see, Look, Billy, you don't want to go
Speaker 2: and see her after that? I tell you, Randy, I
Speaker 2: gotta see her.
Speaker 1: There's something I gotta tell her, and it's gotta beat
Speaker 1: tonight because tomorrows you should be gone. Billy.
Speaker 2: How do you know that you'll well, that you'll see
Speaker 2: I know, I know because.
Speaker 1: There's something I ain't, don't you. There's something something I'm
Speaker 1: never gonna tell nobody. And Randy, please please don't don't
Speaker 1: try to stop me. Please don't let nobody try to
Speaker 1: stop me, because because if they do, I'll kill him.
Speaker 3: You are listening to Nightbeat starring Frank love Joy as
Speaker 3: Randy Stone.
Speaker 2: Billy said he'd kill anybody who'd try to stop him
Speaker 2: from seeing missus Wilder Compton.
Speaker 1: I looked at his scarred.
Speaker 2: Facing, into his eyes a wild fever you see in
Speaker 2: the eyes of a dog everyone says is mad, but
Speaker 2: only wants a drink of water.
Speaker 1: And then I guess I shouldn't have said that, Randy. Well,
Speaker 1: let's forget it for a minute, Billy, and tell me
Speaker 1: why do you want to see it? You don't understand
Speaker 1: Dave's Eh, No, my mother never told me. Well, she
Speaker 1: gives me the brush, see like I tell you, she
Speaker 1: gives me the brush, but she does it for me. See,
Speaker 1: she don't want me to get my brains knocked out.
Speaker 2: See yeah, I'm beginning to see Billy.
Speaker 1: Sure, But me, I got no sense, so so I
Speaker 1: don't see it her way.
Speaker 2: So I let her walk out, and I don't see
Speaker 2: it no more, not until I got hold of that
Speaker 2: paper today and tonight you want to see it to say, what, Billy?
Speaker 1: But don't you see she loves me all these years,
Speaker 1: she never lets up. But I want to tell her.
Speaker 2: It's okay that maybe her and me we can start
Speaker 2: all over. Like, see, what's the matter Randy? Nothing nothing, Billy. Look,
Speaker 2: don't let anybody kid you. Patty was still champion.
Speaker 1: Oh nothing, But I gotta go. No, I gotta get
Speaker 1: fifteen bucks for us. Now. Look, look, you're tired. You
Speaker 1: need a shave. Maybe take a shower.
Speaker 2: You thought of that? No, all right, now you wait
Speaker 2: here and take a shower and a shave, and I'll
Speaker 2: bring a suit back for Is that a deal?
Speaker 1: Hot? Gee? You're a champ r and there are a
Speaker 1: real chat.
Speaker 2: I might be going for a little while, Billy, but
Speaker 2: when I come back, everything will be okay.
Speaker 1: Sure, okay.
Speaker 2: There was only one thing for me to do, go
Speaker 2: and see missus Water Company. I made sure that Billy
Speaker 2: couldn't leave my apartment. I locked the door from the outside.
Speaker 2: I didn't want him picked up before he had the
Speaker 2: chance to see her, to see the woman around whom
Speaker 2: he'd build a whole world of fantasy in which he
Speaker 2: lived for so many years. I didn't want that world
Speaker 2: to come down around his ears. My newspaper pass got
Speaker 2: me in to see missus Walder Coompton and he's.
Speaker 1: Suite at the lake Shore.
Speaker 2: You're mister Stone, Yes I am, Missus Compton.
Speaker 6: You're from the newspaper.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not on newspaper business, Missus Compton.
Speaker 1: Not tonight. This is more personal.
Speaker 4: Really, well, what.
Speaker 1: Can I do for me? Nothing?
Speaker 6: Then, please get to the point, mister Still, My husband
Speaker 6: will be here shorty with guests.
Speaker 1: How soon now? Why?
Speaker 2: Well, because it concerns someone you used to know. Really
Speaker 2: who Billy Candell? Billy Candell as he was better known
Speaker 2: as Billy the Kid wants middleweight Champion.
Speaker 1: Of the world forgotten?
Speaker 2: And I was glad to Missus Compton. He's coming here
Speaker 2: tonight to see you.
Speaker 1: What he's coming? How stupid can you get?
Speaker 2: Well, for a lot of people, it's not hired to
Speaker 2: be stupid or heartless.
Speaker 6: Yours must be a rather sentimental column.
Speaker 2: Mister, Yes, it's about people. Better go look, please see Billy.
Speaker 1: What can you lose?
Speaker 4: It's out of the question.
Speaker 2: Listen. All he wants is to tell you something. He
Speaker 2: wants to tell you that that he knows that you
Speaker 2: still love him. What No, I listen to me. Please
Speaker 2: to tomorrow. He is going to well, he's going where
Speaker 2: he can rest.
Speaker 1: He's sick. Missus Compton. He's desperately sick.
Speaker 6: Let's not be so polite. The word is punch drunk.
Speaker 6: I believe you want me to see a lunatic.
Speaker 2: No, he's not, and I'll be here when he comes.
Speaker 2: We'll keep it between us.
Speaker 1: Three.
Speaker 2: Do you know what you're asking as I'm asking you
Speaker 2: to give a guy a few minutes of his world,
Speaker 2: make it real for him, tell him anything that, tell
Speaker 2: him you still love him. Then he'll go away after tomorrow.
Speaker 2: You'll never see him or hear from him again.
Speaker 6: You're asking me to receive that that thing, to bring
Speaker 6: him into this hotel where everyone can see him.
Speaker 4: Do you know what that means or to him?
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm talking about myself myself.
Speaker 2: Mister SDEs I'd like to get off that subject from.
Speaker 4: Me, the only subject that matters.
Speaker 2: If you don't see him, he'll crack up all the
Speaker 2: way that happened long ago. Good evening, misters, done, three
Speaker 2: minutes of your time.
Speaker 4: I said no, did you hear mister Stone?
Speaker 2: I said no, Okay, Lenny, I'm going I thank you
Speaker 2: for everything that's been lovely.
Speaker 4: He needn't be a sarcastic misde.
Speaker 2: Queeney. I got a little spot announcement for you, Billy,
Speaker 2: ow's you a voted thanks. You'll never know it, but
Speaker 2: she gave him the biggest break of his life, and
Speaker 2: you walked out on him years ago. Yes, positively, tonight
Speaker 2: you given him even a bigger break.
Speaker 1: Tell me about it, mister Stille.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll tell you. The only thing that poor guys
Speaker 2: got left is this memory of a girl named Didn't it?
Speaker 2: Any resemblance between that memory and you? Was strictly coincidental?
Speaker 1: Goodbye?
Speaker 2: I was glad to get out in the fresh air.
Speaker 2: All the way back to my apartment, I kept thinking
Speaker 2: of what I'd tell Billy, how i'd tell him. Then,
Speaker 2: as I walked across the lobby toward the elevator, mister Saul,
Speaker 2: Oh what is it, Charlie, here's a message for it. Okay,
Speaker 2: you are stone, Thank you? How long ago he leave this?
Speaker 1: Oh? What? Just a few minutes after you left? Did
Speaker 1: you know you left him locked in?
Speaker 2: He called out? He asked me to open the Did
Speaker 2: he say where he was going? No? No, no, just
Speaker 2: that he couldn't wait for you any long. Now, that
Speaker 2: is on the note.
Speaker 1: How do you look? How do you look? Well?
Speaker 2: I mean, anything unusual about him? No, he had on
Speaker 2: one of your suit I remember now that that pinstripe
Speaker 2: one he must have stolen. Now, he didn't steal anything.
Speaker 2: Now listen to me. I'm going to the lake Shore Hotel.
Speaker 2: If he comes back here, get in touch with me there.
Speaker 2: Missus Compton's sweet.
Speaker 1: This is Compton Sweet.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh, and listen, I think you'd better call the police,
Speaker 2: but ask for Colsky, remember that Colskey. Tell him to
Speaker 2: meet me at the lake Shore Hotel.
Speaker 1: And quickly.
Speaker 2: I took a cab and I took the shortest way
Speaker 2: to the lake Shore, and I watched the pavements looking
Speaker 2: for Billy, but I didn't see him. He had some
Speaker 2: money on him and he must have taken a cab himself.
Speaker 2: And then I was back at the lake Shore talking
Speaker 2: with the clerk at the desk there.
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, there was a man here that description. He
Speaker 7: asked her to call be put through to missus Compton Sweet.
Speaker 7: And was it well, sir, he was a rather we yes, yes,
Speaker 7: I know, I know. So he didn't get through.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 7: I called Missus Compton Sweep myself and told her that
Speaker 7: is I described the man.
Speaker 1: Yes, go ahead, what'd you say that? On no account?
Speaker 1: Was I to put him through or send him upstairs?
Speaker 1: Oh well, okay, that's something.
Speaker 2: What do you do?
Speaker 1: Then you'd have to meet it? Which way?
Speaker 7: I'm afraid I didn't know, Sir. I was registering some
Speaker 7: new guests, and I paid no attention.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: I had to find Billy before, well before what what
Speaker 2: would he do? Where would he go? I asked myself
Speaker 2: those questions as I walked slowly along, watching for him,
Speaker 2: hoping to see that pathetic figure in my pin striped suit,
Speaker 2: hoping i'd get to him before someone else stopped him.
Speaker 2: I was afraid of what might happen or could happen.
Speaker 2: And then I saw him just past the Lake Shore Hotel,
Speaker 2: shambling slowly along, his shoulders hunched against the wind that cut.
Speaker 1: In off the lake.
Speaker 2: I ran and caught up with him. Billy, helly.
Speaker 1: Ah, what you're doing over here?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: I just looking around? Why'd you leave my apartment?
Speaker 1: Well? Oh well what you wiscone? So long? And I
Speaker 1: had to get gone and see. Oh sure, come on,
Speaker 1: let's walk. Yeah, hey, I borrowed one of your suits,
Speaker 1: so a real champ suit? All right here? Your mind?
Speaker 2: You no, no, Billy, none at.
Speaker 1: All did you see her? Oh? Oh sure, what you did?
Speaker 1: I see her?
Speaker 2: Billy.
Speaker 1: They wouldn't let you go up remember, Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but uh I went up the back of the back, Billy.
Speaker 1: Now look at are you sure? Oh? Sure? And and
Speaker 1: she still loves me, Randy, I said, everything was okay.
Speaker 1: She's crazy about me, like like she always. What did
Speaker 1: she tell you? Well, she she didn't want to talk
Speaker 1: to me, you know how she is. But then I
Speaker 1: told her I love her, and she loves me, you know, Billy, Billy,
Speaker 1: I'm tired, Randy.
Speaker 2: Lots of things happened to night, lots of Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: What do you say we go someplace for coffee?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, i'd like to. I'm awful tired. And when
Speaker 1: I get real that good, I'll go back to see
Speaker 1: her and may well we'll start over again. Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: this is where she lives.
Speaker 6: You.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I gotta see her once more, Randy.
Speaker 2: Maybe she'll talk to me this time, not tonight anymore, Billy.
Speaker 1: No, but I want her to talk to me. Well
Speaker 1: I don't, Yes, she will. She loves me, Billy A
Speaker 1: listen to me. You let me go up there first.
Speaker 2: I'll talk to her and fix everything.
Speaker 1: Okay, tell her not to act like a kid. Tell
Speaker 1: her to talk to me.
Speaker 2: Yes, sure, sure, I'll tell her, but you must put.
Speaker 1: Hey, yes, Colsey, I did.
Speaker 2: It's okay now I found him.
Speaker 1: What she call the cops for Randy O.
Speaker 2: Coskey is not the copies of Palish. He thinks she's
Speaker 2: the greatest fighter that ever lived. He always wanted to
Speaker 2: talk to you about your big fight.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, sure, but but we're busy. Now, I'll talk
Speaker 1: to you about it later.
Speaker 2: Cosek, I gotta see somebody, Billy. I promised you i'd
Speaker 2: see her.
Speaker 1: Remember, you're gonna tell her. I'll be waiting.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, Now you just stayed with Kolski here. Tell
Speaker 2: him about the night you want the bell, anything that matters,
Speaker 2: don't no, no, no, just keep them here. I'll ask
Speaker 2: questions later, now, Billy, Yeah, promise me you'll stay right here.
Speaker 1: You won't stay long, huh. Just tell her she loves
Speaker 1: me and and I wanted to talk to me. Sure
Speaker 1: I would. Okay, Now you wait here.
Speaker 2: I didn't think it would do any good to see
Speaker 2: her again, but I wanted to give Billy a good
Speaker 2: memory to take along. I saw her, all right, but
Speaker 2: she didn't talk to me either. I went back downstairs
Speaker 2: and out to the street. I hadn't been going more
Speaker 2: than five minutes, but they were the longest five minutes
Speaker 2: of my life.
Speaker 1: Brother, I was peeved Iranda. You see her, right? You
Speaker 1: see her? Yeah? I saw her, Billy, what does she say? Now?
Speaker 1: You tell me what she said? And I told her, Hey, son,
Speaker 1: how long does this go on? This is a crown con.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're coming along with you. What's the idea getting
Speaker 2: the back? Billy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm kind of tired. I'd kind of like the
Speaker 1: ride to your place, riding the shirt. Thank us to
Speaker 1: the priescinct. Coulsky listen, right, he did you see his girl? Yes?
Speaker 2: I soil, But she didn't talk to me either. I
Speaker 2: guess she laughed once too often.
Speaker 1: She's dead. Huh, it's all right. Not just take it ease.
Speaker 1: He's kolsky.
Speaker 2: Yet the poor guy doesn't even know that he killed her.
Speaker 2: Four am and the lights are going out all over
Speaker 2: the city, even though it's neon signs on Madison Street.
Speaker 2: I better write my piece and put it in the slot.
Speaker 2: But what can I say? The story of a one
Speaker 2: sided love? Well, if that's what love does to you,
Speaker 2: I'll stick to peanuckle. It's a funny thing about love,
Speaker 2: isn't it. Let someone get up and talk about hate
Speaker 2: and he's hailed as a new leader. Let him speak
Speaker 2: of love and he's ridiculed, He's spat upon and even
Speaker 2: nailed to a cross. Love is the greatest thing, the
Speaker 2: oldest yet, the latest thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, copy Boy.
Speaker 3: Night Beat, a new dramatic series, stars Frank love Joy
Speaker 3: is Randy Stone. Tonight's story was written by Russell Hughes.
Speaker 3: Nightbeat is edited by Larry Marcus and directed by Warren Lewis.
Speaker 3: Music by Frank Worth. The part of the prize fighter
Speaker 3: was played by Bill Conrad. Others in tonight's cast were
Speaker 3: Loreen Tottle, Bill Lally, Larry Dobkin, and leo' cleary. Frank
Speaker 3: Lovejoy will next be seen in Milton Sperling's production Rock Bottom,
Speaker 3: released by Warner Brothers. Listen next week at the same
Speaker 3: time and every week as Randy Stone searches through the
Speaker 3: city for the strange stories waiting for him in the darkness,
Speaker 3: the stories that come out of the shadows to find
Speaker 3: their way into Nightbeat. There's another great action pack program
Speaker 3: you'll enjoy listening to on NBC every Sunday, It's Christopher
Speaker 3: London with Glenn Ford in the title role. Christopher London
Speaker 3: was created especially for radio by the world's most widely
Speaker 3: read mystery writer, Earl Stanley Gardner. You truly enjoy this
Speaker 3: fast moving mystery adventure series when you tune to NBC
Speaker 3: next Sunday on most of these Sames MBC stations. Stay
Speaker 3: tuned for Brian don Levy in Dangerous Assignment on MBC