Speaker 1: Tired of the everyday routine, ever dream of a life
Speaker 1: of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all.
Speaker 2: Escape designed to free you from the four walls of
Speaker 2: today for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: Tonight we escaped to a lonely schooner sailing through the
Speaker 1: hot Caribbean night, carrying a fortune and the heedless passions
Speaker 1: of reckless men. As John and gwyn Bag may tell
Speaker 1: it in their exciting tale The Sure Thing, Oh this way.
Speaker 3: Senor, thank you, if you would please wait in here
Speaker 3: in the sign you understand, Senor, I have not the
Speaker 3: authority to handle the matter myself.
Speaker 4: Yes, of course I understand. You see a bank craft
Speaker 4: of two million dollars. It is a matter of such importance.
Speaker 4: Senor jose peris the president of the bank. He is
Speaker 4: the only one that's perfectly all right. Our wait for
Speaker 4: Senor Peri's gracious wait. Yes, I could wait. I'd come
Speaker 4: this far. I could afford a few more minutes, and
Speaker 4: I wanted to think about it, to roll it over
Speaker 4: in my mind, just as your roller finally cur over
Speaker 4: your tongue, to enjoy the full realization of it. It
Speaker 4: was hard to believe just a short while ago. I
Speaker 4: had been ship's doctor on the SS Martina, the gilded
Speaker 4: ferry boat of the Caribbean. And now I sat back
Speaker 4: in a comfortable chair and went over the whole thing
Speaker 4: again in my mind, just the way it happened from
Speaker 4: the beginning. We had just cleared the Straits of Yucatan
Speaker 4: on our way to Havana when the twenty three way
Speaker 4: message came that started the whole thing.
Speaker 5: Same thing, Doc s sos slanted to twenty three flung
Speaker 5: and eighty five west accident case on board schooner SID
Speaker 5: on our tana urgently naded doctor, can you.
Speaker 6: Board us?
Speaker 4: Is that all the answer as to the type of injury?
Speaker 6: I don't get it, Jack.
Speaker 5: She's laying to just after starve and they still keep
Speaker 5: sending the same message.
Speaker 6: Life was ready, doctor.
Speaker 4: Coming, All set, let's go. As a rule, I don't
Speaker 4: excite easily, but I was hanging onto my little black
Speaker 4: bag like an intern on his first ambulance case. Maybe
Speaker 4: it was the hour, the gray hour at sea that
Speaker 4: is suspended between day and night. As we pulled away
Speaker 4: from our ship, I could just barely make out the
Speaker 4: schooner healing to a wandering current. She was a forty
Speaker 4: two footer, and from her high bow she sloped away
Speaker 4: neatly in a sweeping sheer line to a trim square
Speaker 4: stir in the siddon. The name seemed a fitter aloof
Speaker 4: and aristocratic. We pulled alongside that.
Speaker 6: The docname.
Speaker 4: Yes, give us a hand, William, all right, man, ship
Speaker 4: your oars, steady you on board? Here, take my bag, Olsen,
Speaker 4: give me a hand with a stretcher.
Speaker 6: Right, watch your step there is eight.
Speaker 4: Thanks, Well, there we are. Now where's the patient?
Speaker 6: He's below? What'd you bring the stretcher for?
Speaker 4: Who are you?
Speaker 6: And the owner?
Speaker 1: Felix Arosee is the name? You can't take him off
Speaker 1: this boat. He's till weak.
Speaker 4: I'll decide that. Come on, Olsen, coman back We went below.
Speaker 4: The main cabin was lined in Hondura's mahogany. Everything was
Speaker 4: custom built, even the galley that we passed through on
Speaker 4: our way to the stateroom forward, where I found my patient,
Speaker 4: an old man and with him a girl.
Speaker 7: Oh, Doc, rh, I'm so glad you're here. Joseph. Joseph, hmmm, Joseph,
Speaker 7: the doctor he's here.
Speaker 4: Oh doctor, easy, now easy, you'll be all right.
Speaker 7: Doctor. He had an accident. He's terribly ill. I've been
Speaker 7: so worried.
Speaker 4: Please mumm, bad shock, pulse pretty low.
Speaker 7: You're not going to take away, are you?
Speaker 4: Easy? Now? Have you enough oil a boy to reach
Speaker 4: Havana if the wind doesn't hold yes, I think so. Okay, Ulson,
Speaker 4: you go on back. This man's in no condition to
Speaker 4: be moved.
Speaker 6: What about you.
Speaker 4: I'll meet the ship in Havana. We ought to be
Speaker 4: in there sometime tomorrow. But the skipper I'll take the responsibility.
Speaker 6: Okay, you're the doctor.
Speaker 4: All right, let's have a look here, easy now. Who
Speaker 4: bandaged him?
Speaker 7: I did?
Speaker 4: You did a good job. Don't try to talk. How
Speaker 4: long has he been this way?
Speaker 7: Two days?
Speaker 4: Two days?
Speaker 7: The wound doctor, I'm afraid.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's a nasty one, deep and infected. Who did
Speaker 4: the surgery on him? Surgery probed for the bullets?
Speaker 6: Bullet?
Speaker 7: There was no bullet. He was injured while splicing a
Speaker 7: backstay with a marlin spike. He was what you see.
Speaker 7: He was carrying the marlin spike in his hand when
Speaker 7: Felix had to come about unexpectedly. It threw them off
Speaker 7: balance and he fell.
Speaker 4: Hand me, my bag, what's the matter. You're like a parrot.
Speaker 4: I used to own your seat. Talk is too glib.
Speaker 7: It's the truth.
Speaker 4: I've dug out too many bullets not to recognize the
Speaker 4: kind of mess they make.
Speaker 7: It was a Marlin spike.
Speaker 4: Yes, well you can yell Marlin Spike all the way
Speaker 4: to Havana, but it isn't going to change my report. Report. No,
Speaker 4: no bullet, Marlin spike back. This won't hurt. Just a
Speaker 4: hypodermy no, no, no, no, dop on it. But I've
Speaker 4: got to probe. You can't take it if you're conscious.
Speaker 4: No anesthetic, honey, Randy, doctor, give him the anesthetic you'd like,
Speaker 4: That wouldn't just if you're.
Speaker 7: Out of your mind, Joseph. I just want to save
Speaker 7: you the pain in the doc.
Speaker 4: Get him, brandy, doctor, it's his body. If that's what
Speaker 4: he wants, that's the way he'll have it. Now get
Speaker 4: the brandy, Thank you, and doctor.
Speaker 8: Yes, send Stephanie away, don't honor around me.
Speaker 4: She went away, but she didn't like it, and I
Speaker 4: got to work. The old man didn't say a word
Speaker 4: all the time I probed. He just moaned and gritted
Speaker 4: his teeth. I found the bullet, all right, and then
Speaker 4: I powdered the wound with sulfur and bandaged it. I
Speaker 4: could see I'd have my hands full just to keep
Speaker 4: him together until we got to Havana. For the next
Speaker 4: couple of hours, I was pretty busy, and it was
Speaker 4: well after ten o'clock when I thought it was safe
Speaker 4: to leave him and go up on deck to catch
Speaker 4: a smoke. Halfway up the companion way, I ran into
Speaker 4: Felix Rouge on his way down. I hadn't got a
Speaker 4: good look at him when I first came aboard, but
Speaker 4: now I did heavy, dark, bony face with a black
Speaker 4: mole on his cheek, fine flannel slacks rolled to his knees,
Speaker 4: and for a belt a gaudy nectar. Against the polished
Speaker 4: brass antique deck of the schooner, he was as incongruous
Speaker 4: as a herring and caviare.
Speaker 6: Oh, doc has the old boys. They're gonna kick off.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I think he's gonna
Speaker 4: be all right.
Speaker 6: You think, or do you know?
Speaker 4: I'm only a doctor. I've done everything I can for it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: wait a minute, where are you going?
Speaker 6: I want to say him, I gotta talk to it.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't advise it.
Speaker 1: That's one of you giving the orders around he since
Speaker 1: I came aboard.
Speaker 4: I don't want him disturbed. He needs to rest.
Speaker 1: You've got any objections if I get myself a cup of.
Speaker 4: Coffee, No, so long as you stay away from my patient.
Speaker 7: Oh, I didn't hear you come up.
Speaker 4: You handle a wheel like an old saw.
Speaker 7: I don't know much about it. I just do what
Speaker 7: feel it tells me. How's Joseph. You've been down there
Speaker 7: such a long time. I thought that many that he died.
Speaker 7: What a horrible thing to say, of course, not.
Speaker 4: Oh it's Joseph, your husband.
Speaker 7: No, I'm his secretary.
Speaker 4: Oh, then this is a business trip.
Speaker 7: In a way, doctor, What are you getting at?
Speaker 4: Did you shoot him?
Speaker 7: Why would I shoot him and then call for a
Speaker 7: doctor out here in the middle of the ocean.
Speaker 4: I don't know, And after tomorrow I won't care. You realize.
Speaker 4: Of course my report to the authorities in Havana will
Speaker 4: be according to my own findings.
Speaker 7: I suppose. So may I have a cigarette?
Speaker 4: Oh? Certainly here you are.
Speaker 7: Thank you. I have a life. I don't imagine there's
Speaker 7: any way of changing your mind, is there, doctor?
Speaker 4: This is a beautiful schooner belong to your boss. Yes,
Speaker 4: I wonder, uh, you mind if I take the wheel
Speaker 4: for a while. It's been a long time, so you
Speaker 4: know how Yeah, I used to back in Maine. All right,
Speaker 4: go ahead, Hm feels good. She sure handles like a
Speaker 4: dream mum humhm.
Speaker 7: Just as I thought, what's wrong, doctor.
Speaker 4: We're not headed for Havana. We're headed in the opposite direction.
Speaker 4: The sedan was racing along with sails full, but she
Speaker 4: wasn't sailing due east to Havana. The compass said she
Speaker 4: was sailing southwest, away from Havana, as fast as wind
Speaker 4: and sail could take her. I laid her on the
Speaker 4: starboard tack and started to bring her about. The sails
Speaker 4: bellied out, catching the wind as it shifted across the bow,
Speaker 4: and then as they started to fill away, the mainmast
Speaker 4: boom swung over. Just as I ducked to a bullet,
Speaker 4: A shot rang up. I put up my hand to
Speaker 4: steady myself against the main boom, and there in the wood,
Speaker 4: right where my head would have been if I hadn't ducked,
Speaker 4: was the bullet. Across the deck. Silhouetted in the light
Speaker 4: of the companion way, stood Felix, polishing his gun with
Speaker 4: a handkerchief.
Speaker 1: You shudn't tack doctor. When a man's cleaning his gun, cleaning.
Speaker 4: Your gun the dark in the middle of the night.
Speaker 6: I suppose it is dangerous. I say, you don't like
Speaker 6: our course.
Speaker 4: I was under the impression this craft was bound for
Speaker 4: a banner.
Speaker 6: That's right, dark way.
Speaker 4: And why are we sailing southwest?
Speaker 6: Southwest? That's a woman for you.
Speaker 1: I can't trust them behind the wheel of a car,
Speaker 1: and they're no better behind the wheel of a boat.
Speaker 7: Oh no, Felix, you don't blame me for that. I
Speaker 7: don't know anything about a course. I did what you
Speaker 7: told me.
Speaker 6: Why didn't you do it right?
Speaker 7: If I'm so incompetent, maybe you'd better handle it yourself.
Speaker 7: Maybe I will.
Speaker 4: As the Sidung pushed its way through the serenity of
Speaker 4: the night, carrying with it an incredible tension, I didn't
Speaker 4: know what their game was, the lies, the marlin spike,
Speaker 4: nocturnal gun cleaning, change of course, who they were, or
Speaker 4: what they meant to each other. But one thing was certain.
Speaker 4: I intended to get to Havana if it was the
Speaker 4: last thing I ever did, And to make sure it
Speaker 4: wasn't last thing. This was one night I wouldn't sleep.
Speaker 4: I went down to the old man's stateroom, where I'd
Speaker 4: left my bag to get some benzitory. While I was there,
Speaker 4: I checked on him, considering his age, he had a
Speaker 4: lot of stamina. He was sleeping quietly. He wouldn't need me.
Speaker 4: I opened the bag, took the tablets, and suddenly my
Speaker 4: hands stopped in mid air. My hypodermic needle, loaded with
Speaker 4: the anesthetic that Joseph had refused, was gone.
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Speaker 2: The Sure Thing.
Speaker 4: My hypodermic needle, loaded with the anesthetic that Joseph had refused,
Speaker 4: was gone. I try the bag apart, took everything out,
Speaker 4: but it wasn't there. It wasn't anywhere in the stateroom.
Speaker 4: One of them had stolen. Why do you use on
Speaker 4: the old man on me? I went back up on deck.
Speaker 4: Felix was at the wheel. I knew it was futile
Speaker 4: to ask him if he'd taken my leedle.
Speaker 1: What's the matter? Can't you sleep? Or are you're still
Speaker 1: worried about the course? He was sailing due east.
Speaker 4: Very commendable, mind if I take the wheel awhile.
Speaker 1: Now I don't mind at all, but keep a due
Speaker 1: east doctor. I want to get to Havana. I watched
Speaker 1: his truculent broad back as he moved across the deck
Speaker 1: and disappeared below. The moon was as bright as day
Speaker 1: and as reassuring. It drove the worry of the missing
Speaker 1: hypodermic needle away from the front of my mind. It
Speaker 1: was good to be alone, to feel the sure, swiftness
Speaker 1: of the boat under my feet.
Speaker 4: This was something to cling to. This was reality. Every
Speaker 4: knot closer to Havannah. The sail swung out, covering the moon,
Speaker 4: throwing everything into blackness. That's why I didn't realize at
Speaker 4: first any one was approaching. Until I saw the glow
Speaker 4: of the cigarette. I tensed myself. My hand clutched at
Speaker 4: something in the cockpit was a wrench. The cigarette moved closer.
Speaker 4: I waited, The sail bellowed back, and I saw her
Speaker 4: full in the moonlight. There was strength and defiance, and
Speaker 4: the way she held her footing against the wind, but
Speaker 4: there was no defiance in her voice.
Speaker 7: I have to talk to you.
Speaker 4: Don't go ahead, talk.
Speaker 7: I'm afraid I haven't been very honest with you.
Speaker 4: N I'm afraid you haven't.
Speaker 7: I lied to you, and I realize now how foolish
Speaker 7: it was. But doctor, I'm afraid of Felix.
Speaker 4: Are you trying to tell me it was Felix who
Speaker 4: shot the old man?
Speaker 7: Yes, and he made me lie about it like.
Speaker 4: You lied about the course.
Speaker 7: You'll never get to Havannah. He's letting you think that
Speaker 7: you're getting there now. But he'll figure out something.
Speaker 4: I'm sure he will if that target practice a few
Speaker 4: moments ago was any simple.
Speaker 7: Oh, he wasn't trying to kill you. Felix wouldn't kill
Speaker 7: you now, not as long as Joseph needs you. Uh,
Speaker 7: I mean, you know.
Speaker 4: You're not making sense again. Felix wants me to keep
Speaker 4: Joseph alive, And yet Felix shot Joseph.
Speaker 7: It was just in a fit of anger, an argument.
Speaker 7: Felix has a terrible temper. Why he'd be a fool
Speaker 7: to kill Joseph?
Speaker 4: What makes Joseph so valuable? Hm?
Speaker 7: I suppose I should tell you all of it.
Speaker 4: It might be a good idea.
Speaker 7: I told you the truth about one thing. At least
Speaker 7: I am his secretary. Only his name isn't just Joseph.
Speaker 7: It's Joseph Ingram.
Speaker 4: Ingram, No wonder his face was familiar. He's he's the
Speaker 4: big aviation tycoon. Yet but look Ingram was killed two
Speaker 4: weeks ago. I read about it in the papers. A
Speaker 4: transcontinental airplane crashed into a mountain.
Speaker 7: Yes, even fate works for him. We were on our
Speaker 7: way to Washington, he'd been subpoena to have his war
Speaker 7: contracts investigated. All the public was really worked up about it.
Speaker 7: He was a cinch to be indicted. Why even his
Speaker 7: own wife left him after twenty years of marriage. But
Speaker 7: as luck would have it, we got off the plane
Speaker 7: at Albuquerque to hands raw wire from his attorneys.
Speaker 4: But the radio and the newspapers obituaried him. Today, I know.
Speaker 7: That's how things happened for him. Apparently there there was
Speaker 7: just no record of us leaving the plane, and they
Speaker 7: only found half the survivors, and some of those they
Speaker 7: couldn't identify him. Now go on, Well, when Joseph realized
Speaker 7: that he was officially dead, he saw the way out.
Speaker 7: He phoned Felix in Florida to have the sitting ready,
Speaker 7: and we took a train down and border her there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I see, but I don't want.
Speaker 7: Why do you think I'm on this boat? Do you
Speaker 7: think I wanted to come? Do you think I wanted
Speaker 7: to leave my whole life behind? I was forced to come.
Speaker 7: I was the only one who knew that Joseph was
Speaker 7: still alive.
Speaker 4: And now you know what about Felix or Felix.
Speaker 7: Does odd job as it were, for Joseph. Joseph owns
Speaker 7: Felix's body and soul, just as he owns everyone.
Speaker 4: Who works for him, and you. I was ambitious.
Speaker 7: I order hate Joseph, but it's not his fault. I
Speaker 7: saw a chance to go further with him than with
Speaker 7: any other man. Only i'd known how it would end,
Speaker 7: running away from everything, always to be afraid.
Speaker 4: Well, if that's it, then I was wrong. Then maybe
Speaker 4: the needle isn't meant for Joseph. Needle What needle? The
Speaker 4: hypodermic needle loaded with anesthetic? It's missing from my bag.
Speaker 4: If it isn't meant for Joseph, for me, it's meant
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 7: No, oh, no, he can't.
Speaker 4: He wouldn't be afraid. We'll have to be more realistic,
Speaker 4: if you'll forgive the pun. I'm afraid we're both in
Speaker 4: the same boat.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 4: There was desperation on her face, and I felt sorry
Speaker 4: for her. She was in this mess up to her neck,
Speaker 4: and she was afraid, And yet it was good having
Speaker 4: her beside me there in the cockpit. It was pleasant
Speaker 4: to be with her, just the two of us, and
Speaker 4: the moon and the sea. Well, anyway, the hypodermic needle
Speaker 4: was the farthest thing from my mind when I took
Speaker 4: her in my arms, and then it happened. I felt
Speaker 4: the stinger that pierced my flesh. The needle.
Speaker 7: What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: The needle? You stuck me with it?
Speaker 7: Oh, I'm sorry. It was just my broach. It's always coming.
Speaker 4: Open and broachure, I thought.
Speaker 7: Silly the fashment volume, Will you please?
Speaker 4: Sure? Yes, of course, Well your shake looks that missing hypodermic.
Speaker 4: It tas me rattled. I've got to get it back.
Speaker 4: You'll get it back, yes, but when?
Speaker 6: How?
Speaker 7: Right? Now? Doctor? Like this?
Speaker 4: She used the needle defintely and one motion plunged it
Speaker 4: in my arm. I tried to struggle to my feet.
Speaker 4: Her face was mocking me. I grabbed for her, but
Speaker 4: the drug was warm and deadening, and after a blurred moment,
Speaker 4: I was gone.
Speaker 7: You me.
Speaker 4: I could hear them from a long ways off. I
Speaker 4: came too slowly, and I lay there listening.
Speaker 7: I only did what you told.
Speaker 4: Me to do.
Speaker 7: You're the one who's blunkled you.
Speaker 4: But you were both standing over me, working on me,
Speaker 4: doing everything they could to bring.
Speaker 7: Me to Now you've spoiled everything. Why did you have
Speaker 7: to rush things.
Speaker 6: You want to know where the money is, don't you.
Speaker 7: Well you haven't found out now, Maybe you won't if
Speaker 7: you'd left Joseph alone. But no, no, you couldn't wait
Speaker 7: as soon as the doctor was unconscious of how to
Speaker 7: work him over. If Joseph dies out, we'll never find
Speaker 7: out where he hit it.
Speaker 6: It's on this boat. I know that. And I didn't
Speaker 6: hurt him, just pushed him around a little.
Speaker 7: Oh that's you for temper of yours, that awful impatience.
Speaker 7: You'd think you could have waited for two million dollars.
Speaker 4: Two million dollars. Now it began to make some sense.
Speaker 4: Now everything made sense. As long as Joseph needed a
Speaker 4: doctor and wouldn't tell where the money was, we both lived.
Speaker 4: But if I couldn't keep him alive.
Speaker 1: Get on your feet, duck, Come on, come on, doc,
Speaker 1: get on your feet. Since what are you getting so touching?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 4: Come on, come on, all right, all right, I'm on
Speaker 4: my feet.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Doc. Now get below the old man Major.
Speaker 1: He's had a relapse. Stephanie, take the wheel, I said,
Speaker 1: get below.
Speaker 6: Doc.
Speaker 4: Not in the mood to take orders.
Speaker 6: Maybe this will put you in the mood.
Speaker 4: Creased my chin with a short jab. My knees buckled.
Speaker 4: I swung at him and missed. I saw another one coming,
Speaker 4: and this time I ducked and connected with a round
Speaker 4: house on the side of his head that sent him
Speaker 4: reeling along the wet narrow deck. I started after him,
Speaker 4: just as the boat came about, violently heeling over with
Speaker 4: her scuppers a watch. I wildly grabbed a guyline, just
Speaker 4: in time to see Felix lying backwards into the sea.
Speaker 4: I whipped around. The girl had done it, spinning the
Speaker 4: wheel like crazy. I dashed back to the cuckpit and
Speaker 4: tried to grab it away from it. She fought me
Speaker 4: like a tiger, but I finally pushed her off right
Speaker 4: at the boat and put her about. But Felix was
Speaker 4: nowhere in sight. We tacked around searching for him, but
Speaker 4: it was useless. Hell, he's gone. You killed him.
Speaker 7: It was an accident. You ought to be glad he's gone. Why, Well,
Speaker 7: it was either him or you.
Speaker 4: Your concern touches me.
Speaker 7: Besides, we don't need him, don't you see. You know
Speaker 7: how to handle a boat, and you're a doctor. You
Speaker 7: can keep Joseph alive until we make him talk. And
Speaker 7: when we find out where his money is. We can
Speaker 7: get rid of him.
Speaker 4: And sail away into the sunset.
Speaker 7: That's right, just you and me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no thanks, I'll play out the original hand in Havana.
Speaker 7: I don't think so, doctor. I'm setting the course now,
Speaker 7: and if you're interested, I'm a much better shot than Felix.
Speaker 7: I won't hit the boom.
Speaker 4: The gun glittered in the moonlight, and she was smiling
Speaker 4: at me. But I wasn't looking at her, but beyond her.
Speaker 4: At first I wasn't sure. I just sensed the movement,
Speaker 4: and then I saw him, Joseph Ingram, barefooted and in pajamas,
Speaker 4: pulling himself painfully up the companionway, forcing his body to
Speaker 4: make the effort.
Speaker 8: Joseph, you you wanted too much stuff me my money,
Speaker 8: and Felix is you.
Speaker 7: Felix is gone. He had an accident like mine.
Speaker 4: I saw.
Speaker 8: If p only I hadn't been so greedy, if only
Speaker 8: had waited, you'd have gotten your share.
Speaker 7: Joseph, you're sick.
Speaker 4: You are such fools.
Speaker 8: In the heel of my shoe, there's a draft on
Speaker 8: the national Bank in Venezuela for two million dollars payable
Speaker 8: to bear.
Speaker 7: So that's where it is thank you, Joseph. That's very
Speaker 7: generous of you.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't been watching
Speaker 4: a bullet in the stomach. Yet he kept coming at her,
Speaker 4: lumbering barefooted across the deck like a wounded bear and
Speaker 4: blue silk pajamas. Hack so easy, backed the way everything's done.
Speaker 4: He kept coming, Hack Try. She was at the edge
Speaker 4: of the deck as he clapsed against her, his heavy
Speaker 4: arms and a death grip around her, and like a
Speaker 4: cartwheel they spun together over the side into.
Speaker 7: The inky blackness of the sea.
Speaker 4: Two million dollars in the heel of a shoe. It
Speaker 4: was in the heel of the shoe, all right. I
Speaker 4: went below and found it just a piece of paper
Speaker 4: that three people had died over, two million dollars, satified
Speaker 4: backwards and forwards, payable to bearer. In just a few
Speaker 4: hours it would be daylight. I could be in Havana
Speaker 4: by noon, Back to the martina, back to the dispensary,
Speaker 4: back to the endless round of seasick pills, hangover remedies,
Speaker 4: and when I'm lucky, maybe a sprained ankle or venezuela.
Speaker 4: The choice was simple. There was no risk at tall,
Speaker 4: twas a cinch. It was a sure thing. It was
Speaker 4: payable to bearer.
Speaker 3: Good afternoon, Senor. I'm sorry I have kept you waiting.
Speaker 3: You presented this bank draft for payments in.
Speaker 4: Your yes, are you, Senor parents That is right. I'm
Speaker 4: the president of the bank. This draft. It is quite
Speaker 4: a large sum. There's nothing wrong with the draft, is there? No, Senor,
Speaker 4: it is not good.
Speaker 3: And you wish us to transfer this money to your
Speaker 3: bank in the United States.
Speaker 4: No, No, As a matter of fact, I wish to
Speaker 4: open an account here. But certainly come as you will
Speaker 4: make the arrangements for the senor. Senor Perris at once.
Speaker 3: And now there is a lady, a country woman of yours,
Speaker 3: waiting to see you.
Speaker 4: Please step this way, Senor, to see me. But who Joseph?
Speaker 9: I've been waiting solo, Senor Perez. Is this the man
Speaker 9: who presented the draft for payment? But he isn't. Then
Speaker 9: what's happened to Joseph?
Speaker 4: Who Joseph Ingram? Of course, sen Your Perez. Who is
Speaker 4: this woman? What is she doing here?
Speaker 9: I heard the Sidnate come in this morning with only
Speaker 9: one person aboard, so I rushed right here to the bank.
Speaker 9: But you've cashed the draft.
Speaker 4: What have you done?
Speaker 7: Killed Joseph for it?
Speaker 4: Look, madam, I I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4: Just who are you anyway?
Speaker 9: I'm Joseph Ingram's wife.
Speaker 4: This is Ingram. But then, surely you know he died
Speaker 4: in that plane crash back in the States.
Speaker 6: He didn't.
Speaker 4: And you know it.
Speaker 9: Joseph wasn't on that plane.
Speaker 7: He bought the Sydnon in Florida.
Speaker 4: Now look, madam, all the news.
Speaker 9: Joseph and I planned the whole thing. Those highly publicized
Speaker 9: statements about our divorce were just to cover up. He
Speaker 9: was to meet me here with the money, and I
Speaker 9: know he would have if he were still alive. Senor Praiers, will.
Speaker 7: You call the police. I accuse this man of murdering
Speaker 7: my husband.
Speaker 4: I didn't kill him. She killed him. She Stephanie, his secretary.
Speaker 7: And where is she?
Speaker 4: She's dead too, he killed her.
Speaker 9: That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 7: Where's Felix Rouge?
Speaker 4: You see Felix? He was killed when he yes? Well,
Speaker 4: you see, it was like I stopped. They were staring
Speaker 4: at me. They didn't believe me. Of course, who would
Speaker 4: ever believe me? But it seemed like such a sure thing,
Speaker 4: and it was murder Payable to Bearer.
Speaker 2: Escape is produced and directed by William N. Robeson to night,
Speaker 2: we have presented The Sure Thing by John and Gwen Magny.
Speaker 2: Featured in the cast were John Hoyt is the Doctor,
Speaker 2: Bill Conrad is Filix Rouge, Fay Baker as Stephanie, and
Speaker 2: Ian Wolfe as Joseph Ingram. Also heard were Don Diamond,
Speaker 2: Ted Decarcia and Sarah Selby. Special music was arranged and
Speaker 2: conducted by Del Castillo.
Speaker 6: Next week.
Speaker 1: You within a few days of your release after eight
Speaker 1: years of horror on the prison island of New Caledonia.
Speaker 1: But between you and final freedom stands the love of
Speaker 1: a beautiful girl and the monstrous figure of Monsieur Danieux,
Speaker 1: the official executioner.
Speaker 2: Next week we Escape with John Russell's terrifying story The
Speaker 2: Red Mark.
Speaker 6: Good Night.
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