Speaker 1: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents, Come in or welcome.
I'm e. G.
Speaker 2: Marshall.
Speaker 1: Can the leopard change his spots? Asked the prophet Jeremiah,
and his own reaction, of course, was no. But you see,
we live more than two thousand years later, and to
day we may not only change the spots of the leopard,
but his flesh in his blood, and his bones and
brains as well. We can do this because we have
been given a fantastic gift called science. But whether this
is a gift of the Lord or of the devil
has not yet been deaf determined. How do you like
your new wallet, my dear darling.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful. Let me get my papers in place of insigne.
Speaker 1: I've already done that for you, Eloise new tom.
Speaker 3: I mean my driver's license, my Social Security.
Speaker 1: Card are already in your new wallet.
Speaker 3: Some they don't mind my license, but it is dear,
we look for yourself. The name on this is Mary
Anne Williams.
Speaker 1: Of course it's your new name, Mary Anne Williams. And
my new name is Walter Williams.
Speaker 3: What do we need new names for us?
Speaker 1: Because we died?
Speaker 3: Who who died?
Speaker 4: You and I?
Speaker 1: We were killed in a car crash.
Speaker 3: You know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Tom and Eloise Rutledge are dead. They have been changed
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Speaker 8: Time, where.
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Speaker 1: Smokey has been telling us to be careful with fire
for over three years, yet.
Speaker 9: Last year we still started over a hundred thousand careless
forest fires.
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Speaker 1: When young Leonard Foster won the leading role in the
Shakespearean play to be given by the local community theater,
he was of course overjoyed. How could he know that
this triumph would be the indirect cause of his death. Well,
it's the way these things sometimes work out, you see. Ordinarily,
Leonard would spend his lunch hour out walking with a girl,
or in a corner of the parking lot playing softball
with the rest of the fellows from the mail room. However,
lately he's been spending the hour between twelve and one
sitting in the office and memorizing Cardinal Woolsey's famous speech
to Cromwell, which is what he's doing right now, less
than three minutes before he's to be murdered. Cromwell, I
charge the fling away ambition by that sin fell the angels,
love myself last, cherish those hearts that hate. The corruption
wins not more than honesty. Still in the right hand,
carried gentle peace to silence envious cull.
Speaker 3: Oh hello, Hello, who is there?
Speaker 1: Oh? This is a Leonard Foster.
Speaker 10: No, no, ma'am.
Speaker 1: Mister Rutledge and the plan manager have gone off to lunch.
Speaker 5: Oh have they now? Jo? This is vital.
Speaker 8: Did they drive off in mister rutligon station wagon?
Speaker 1: Mm? Did they? No?
Speaker 2: No, Uh no, ma'am.
Speaker 1: They they went by company limov.
Speaker 5: Oh, then I'm saved.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 8: Mister Rutlige's station wagon is still.
Speaker 5: In the parking lot.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, ma'am. I uh, I can see it just
outside the window.
Speaker 5: Uh huh do you drive?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh yes, missus Rutley.
Speaker 8: Well, I'm at oh uh, just where exactly am I,
Monsieur de Policicard? Uh huh uh off exit eleven, Leonard.
I just bought this absolutely definedly authentic gluey cat toars
come out, and I.
Speaker 5: Must get it home at once.
Speaker 8: Now you're no more than five minutes away from exit
eleven on the turnpike, and uh you'll see the sign
the polisande antique. Well, we can have the thing home
in ten minutes and you can be back at the office.
Speaker 5: Ten minutes after that. Total in that's time one half hour.
Speaker 1: What do you say, well, ma'am I the key Uh.
Speaker 8: Mister Ruff keeps a spare set in the upper right
hand drawer of his desk.
Speaker 5: Leonard, please hurry.
Speaker 8: I shan't draw a relaxed breath until.
Speaker 5: We bring it home safely.
Speaker 1: Missus j I, well, she's the boss's wife. That very
right hand for aer should be oh yeah now?
Speaker 6: Or was I to silence envious tongues, be just and
fear not? Then if thou fallst thou fallst a blessed martyr,
oh Cromwell. Cromwell, had I but served my God with
half the zeal I served my king, he would not
in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
Speaker 1: That bomb was meant for me, Mister Atkins, I can't
be any doubt about it. Oh why why did you
allow such a thing to happen. Look, we can't be
everywhere all the time. Mister you came to me, you said, you,
Tom Rutledge, you have a duty as a citizen. The
underworld has been trying to move in on your industry.
You have certain facts. I understand all that, mister Rutlety.
Now wait your testimony. Tom Rutledge can place all these
hoodlums behind bars forever. I said to you, I have
been informed by certain letters, phone calls, even a visit
to my office that it would be suicide for me
to testify. We know all this, mister Rutledge. And when
I told you about all those threats, how can I
describe your reaction? It was as if this whole thing
were an opera, and you burst forth into a glorious
aria about how the full force of the assembled resources
of the US government would always be on hand a
shield and protect me. Well, where were you when a
bomb went off in my car? This new We're doing
the very best we can, your best isn't good enough.
I believed you. I came forward. I testified, nice young fellow,
this Leonard Foster. Why was he about to drive your car?
Having the faintest idea wo do you have any reason
for being in your car? None that I know of.
Where would he get the key to the ignition? I
couldn't tell you of.
Speaker 3: Mister Atkins. This It has been a very I wonder
if you'd excuse me after all that. There's really nothing
I could tell you.
Speaker 1: In just a moment, Missus Rutledge, I have a question.
I'd like to ask you to ask me. Yes, just
let me finish with your husband. Mister Rutlidge, did you
keep a key to the car in your office?
Speaker 2: Yes, in my desk drawer.
Speaker 1: Did Leonard Foster know about it? I don't see how,
but obviously he must have got your desk drawer take
up the key?
Speaker 11: Why?
Speaker 1: I don't know, couldn't even guess, Missus Rutledge. The switchboard
operator at the plant says you phoned at about a
quarter after twelve.
Speaker 3: Oh, oh yes I did.
Speaker 1: May I ask why?
Speaker 3: But to see if Tom might be free for lunch.
I know there. You had told me before you left
that you had this date, but I was sitting around
the house. I was so lonesome I forgot.
Speaker 1: I just picked up the foot girl on the board,
put the call through to your husband's office. You spoke
to Leonard Foster because she heard him? Come on?
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, yes, I did speak to the poor boy.
Speaker 1: And as far as we know, you were the last
person who.
Speaker 11: Ever speak to him.
Speaker 1: Yes, I suppose I was. How did he sound to you? How?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't know? All right, I'd say, can you recall
the conversation? Yes?
Speaker 3: I asked if Tom were there, and he said no,
Tom had already gone to lunch and that was all.
Speaker 1: And aside from telling you that mister Rutlidge had gone
to lunch, he said nothing.
Speaker 11: Else to you.
Speaker 3: Well, what would you it possibly have to say to me?
Speaker 1: So then, for whatever reason, young Leonard Foster decides to
drive off in your car, mister Rutledge, but the car
is booby trapped and he becomes the accidental victimy.
Speaker 3: Please, oh, this is so upsetting and you really don't
need me for anything more, do you?
Speaker 1: No, missus Rutlidge, Dear, why don't you go upstairs and
lie down for a bit?
Speaker 3: Yes, I think i'd better Please excuse me, now, this
is part of it.
Speaker 1: My wife is an extremely sensitive woman, and she looks
I know she's scared, and I know you're scared, but
I promise you you're not going to be thrown to
the wolves. We were almost bit miss noontime. As of
right now you're being guarded twenty four hours a day.
But how long can you keep doing it? Mister Rutlidge.
All I'm asking is for you to have a.
Speaker 10: Little faith, eh Sparrow speaking.
Speaker 1: I know what you did.
Speaker 6: I also know what you didn't do. I read the newspapers.
Now we just have to let it rest a while.
We'll get him, maybe not now, but we will get
mister Tom Rutledge. They cannot afford to god him forever,
and we are very patient people. I'll let you know
what I want you to do when I want you
to do it.
Speaker 11: Right, Shoot the police, maybe.
Speaker 1: Come in, Hey thought you would want your come old.
Speaker 11: Inside?
Speaker 1: And where shall you have it, madam? Where beneath the
painting I'm setting?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 11: Oh, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: It was for dain to occupy that this iice place,
ain't you gentlemen? I must say it was difficult to
approach your house, Madame Mortledge.
Speaker 2: The police they stop everyone.
Speaker 3: Oh well, my poor husband, his life is in danger.
Could you do me a favor, Monsieur de Poliicadam.
Speaker 2: There is no other reason for my existence.
Speaker 3: I would like to give you a chance. Certainly half
the amount we agreed on, and up cash for.
Speaker 2: The balance whatever is convenient.
Speaker 3: Well, I would just assume my husband didn't know how
much I payd.
Speaker 1: Have no film, Madam.
Speaker 2: This shall be our little secret.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, thank you, monsieur.
Speaker 2: Our second little secret.
Speaker 3: Oh are there your part?
Speaker 2: Yes, it is our second little secret.
Speaker 1: Our first little secret is concerned with that most unfortunate
the convents yesterday noon.
Speaker 2: You say, what did you say, my.
Speaker 1: Dear Madame Ledge, or more properly speaking, what did you
not say concerning that most regrettable episode?
Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: You said in the newspaper account that you had called
your husband's office from your home. Oh we know that
was not true. You had called his office from my shop.
Oh father, it seems that both your husband and the
police are completely mystified. The You have absolutely no idea
why that poor young man should have wanted to drive.
Speaker 11: Your husband's car.
Speaker 2: Now, you could have enlightened them.
Speaker 3: You must believe me, Monsieur de Polizian. I couldn't mention
this because well, I was so obviously because of that
poor boy's death. He died because of me. I simply
couldn't accept that kind of guilt. Please, Monsieur de Policar,
you said it would be our secret.
Speaker 2: What is the real reason? Madam?
Speaker 1: There must be more.
Speaker 3: To it, I assure you, Monsieur.
Speaker 1: You please the most awkward position, madam. You see you
are withholding knowledge from the police. You are well this
is illegal.
Speaker 3: My motives are not evil. If my husband knew that
I had asked Lennard to run my errand for me,
he would be furious. He said he would divorce me
if I ever did it again.
Speaker 5: What a gain?
Speaker 3: If I ever used his employees to run errands or
do work for me, I may have overdone it in
the past. He does employ some very skilled mechanics, and
I ask them to do various chores for me. He
made me promise to put a stop to it, and
I did. I gave him my solemn word of honor.
Speaker 2: So you see, yesul dear lady, I see, and that's why.
Speaker 3: I simply couldn't afford to have him find out that
I asked Leonard to do me a favor.
Speaker 1: My dear Ludlitch, you must have absolutely no feel I
told you this would be our little secret. Bread eaten
in secret is sweet, says the proverb. But even the
sweetest bread must one day grow stale and secrets, and
to grow heavy with age, and sometimes they require additional
people to carry them, in which case they usually don't
remain secrets. As you can see, we have a lot
of work to do, and we'll get a good part
of it done. And I returned shortly with that too.
Here's a tip from your better business zero on the
metric system. You know, use of the metric system as
a uniform system of measurement in this country is growing rapidly.
Speaker 6: But of course you want to know how it will
affect you right well, take driving your car, for example,
the kilometer will replace the mile in expressing distances. Right now,
one mile is equal to one thousand, seven hundred and
sixty yards or five two hundred and eighty feet. Now,
isn't it easier to remember that one kilometer is equal
to one thousand meters.
Speaker 1: Your car speedometer will also change from miles per hour
to kilometers per hour, so will speed limit signs on
the highways. And again the standard unit of measure will
be the meter.
Speaker 5: And so when you.
Speaker 1: Order a tang full of gas the liquid. Sure, we'll
begin leaders, not gallon. For example, a phillip of sixteen
gallons is equal to sixty leaders. For more information on
the metric system, right to Metric Information Office, National Bureau
of Standards, Washington, DC's And I think it was.
Speaker 9: The first time I can remember really going fishing with
my dad. I'm sure i'd been with him before, but
the first time I really remember it was waiting downstream
with him in an extra big pair of waiting boots
as he felt his way very surely along the stream bed,
and I shakily.
Speaker 1: Held onto the willows, and we found.
Speaker 9: A spot where my dad lifted his finger to his
lips and said, we don't want to scan a fish away.
And then I remember that fish, the biggest fish I'd
ever seen in my life, and it was on.
Speaker 11: The end of my line, and my dad.
Speaker 1: Was he proud. I'll never forget that as long as
I live.
Speaker 10: Give your children everything, give them your time.
Speaker 1: A thought from the Church of Jesus Christ of wattery saints,
the Mormons of the very few people will admit they
tell lies, because, as you know, truth is relative, and
also truth rarely gets you anywhere. After all, a politician
who tells the truth seldom gets elected, and a lover
who tells the truth usually spends his night alone. Eloise
Rutledge takes the view that the important thing in this
life is to get along, be happy, and not create
any unnecessary problems. And so if a bad piece is
preferable to a good war, then certainly a good lie
is better than a bad truth.
Speaker 3: Monsieur de Polissand what do you want?
Speaker 1: What do I want? Madame what lynch?
Speaker 3: Yes, let's remove this this mask of continental gallantry?
Speaker 1: And what makes you think I wear a mask? Well?
I wish, madam, only to be your friend.
Speaker 3: You're alle well, thank you, monsieur, thank you.
Speaker 1: These words may sound strange to you, my dear Madam
got Ledge, but my dearest desire is.
Speaker 11: To solve you.
Speaker 1: And if you wish to keep a certain secret, then
I shall solve you by silence.
Speaker 3: Tom there is dear you homarly Well, I uh, we'd
better have a long talk, Eloise. It's a long talk
about what about our future? Well that sounds serious.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's extremely serious. I just spend several hours with
mister Atkins, a government man. Y, we we found out
something about that bomb. These are clever and tenacious killers.
They want me dead. I must die as an object
lesson to everyone else who might consider testifying against them
in court. Even the government cannot protect me. Ban you
against them indefinitely.
Speaker 3: Oh well then, oh what did mister Atkins say that
eventually you'll have to be murdered?
Speaker 1: Yes, that's the truth.
Speaker 3: And were you just supposed to accept that?
Speaker 1: No, darling, we'll have to move.
Speaker 3: We won't be any safer for it. These criminals have
a nationwide organization. We'd be no better off on the
other side of the country, even on the other side
of the world.
Speaker 1: He would, because we will no longer be Tom and
Eloise Rutledge.
Speaker 3: Who would we be?
Speaker 1: Who would you like to be? Any ideas for a
new name? Huh?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What the government can do for us is what it
has done for people like us before. They'll help us
establish a new identity.
Speaker 5: What will we do? What will you do?
Speaker 1: A job is waiting for me?
Speaker 3: What kind of job?
Speaker 1: Where teaching mathematics at a state college in the Northwest.
Speaker 3: I don't understand.
Speaker 1: This is an opportunity to be born again, start life
all over, live it differently. We'll have different names, different identities.
Everything is being changed for us, our social security numbers,
credit cards, health and hospitalization daddy, you name it, my
army discharge papers, every official document that has our name
on it. Oor a marriage license, Well.
Speaker 3: What names will be on that?
Speaker 11: Pig out?
Speaker 1: Whatever you want?
Speaker 3: What do you think a right sounds exciting?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Wait, do I tell Uncle Alvin?
Speaker 1: No? No, you you can't do that.
Speaker 3: Uncle Alvin is you can't tell any one why.
Speaker 1: That's the way it has to be.
Speaker 3: We can't just simply disappear.
Speaker 5: Why not.
Speaker 3: We have relatives, we have friends. What are they going
to think?
Speaker 1: Well, they're not really going to think anything. They were
mourn for us a while.
Speaker 3: What do you mean more?
Speaker 1: Oh? Oh, I should have told you this out front.
We're going to be dead, eh h. In order to
start this off in a most credible manner, we will
have died in an accident.
Speaker 3: Oh Tom, I'm frightened.
Speaker 1: I know, dear, But unless I do it, I will
be killed. It's my only chance sorry to be a
few minutes later, I'd say it's all right. We had
to arrange matters with the chief of the local police. Well,
take a look. That's your new car.
Speaker 5: Like it.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: I'll have the officers transfer your baggage from your old
one to a newman. Frank Smiddy, start moving the luggage.
Speaker 3: Mister Atkins, what's going to become of my furniture, my antique?
Speaker 1: Well, we will be part of your estate, as Tom
and ELOI is ruttive.
Speaker 3: You had a will, but there isn't anyone in either
my family or Tom's who has the proper respect for
a valuable antique. Couldn't we have teen?
Speaker 1: No, man, we can't go through all this again.
Speaker 10: Please.
Speaker 1: Now, if you were driving late at night, you went
off the road and the gas tank exploded, you perished
in the crash and were consumed by the flames.
Speaker 3: That sounds terrible.
Speaker 1: Police, the medical examiner will authenticate all these facts. You
fellows moved all this stuff. Okay. Oh, here's a wallet
for each of you who are now Walter and Mary
Anne Williams.
Speaker 10: Each wallet has.
Speaker 1: Your important papers, drive this licensed credit card, social security number,
everything you need. How's that car with Cassley Fellows. Eloise,
if you have any reservation for you, folks had better
start calling each other Walter and mary Anne Darling that
this won't be an easy thing for you to do.
If you have any reservations. Well, I could have been
alone in that car. No tongue, Walter.
Speaker 3: My place is with you, My place is always with Fellows.
Speaker 2: All are off the road.
Speaker 10: H uh ah, there's a sparrow.
Speaker 2: You know what time it is. But the fact they
had an accident huh car burns up.
Speaker 1: Both.
Speaker 10: I'm dead.
Speaker 2: Somebody singing your body not enough left or identifying. But
why do you know about that? I don't believe a
word of it.
Speaker 6: It's a plant. He's on ice somewhere. We'll find him. Yeah,
people who disappeared, but nobody can disappear without leaving some
kind of trace.
Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't know you were home?
Speaker 5: Well where would I be?
Speaker 2: Tom?
Speaker 1: Honey, my name is Walter.
Speaker 3: In the privacy of our own home, I can call
you Tom.
Speaker 1: But I'm not Tom anymore. And unless you call me
Walter all the time, you'll forget and call me Tom
when we're out.
Speaker 3: When do we ever go out?
Speaker 1: We could go out every night in the week. We
could have a full social life.
Speaker 3: Sound and social life, Darling.
Speaker 1: There's some very fine people up here.
Speaker 3: Do you know the sole topic of conversation here you
have exactly two. It depends on.
Speaker 1: The season, not your being on it.
Speaker 3: Summer, it's horses. In the winter, it's skiing. And there
isn't an antique shop within two hundred miles. No, that's
not true.
Speaker 1: There are plenty of shells.
Speaker 3: Sure, if you're interested in old branding, iron I'm talking
about antiques.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's not the least I admit that.
Speaker 3: Look at my home there isn't a decent piece of furniture.
Speaker 1: I should have known better. I should have realized that
this would be no life for you.
Speaker 3: Oh, Tom, I think bolter. I'm sorry. The important thing
is we're together together. That's all that I care about.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's the important thing, and it's just about the
only thing we'll ever have being together. I miss other
things too, the theater, the excitement of the big cities,
the museum, migul is, restaurants.
Speaker 3: Oh, please, don't even mention.
Speaker 1: We were brought up to live that way. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, No, don't be sorry. I'll manage somehow.
Speaker 1: I wish I could buy you an antique, a.
Speaker 3: Chair and a table.
Speaker 1: Mm nearest blaze where we could even hope to see
anything that you would consider an antique.
Speaker 3: It would be San Francisco.
Speaker 1: I don't think it would be prudent for us to
be seen in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: No, No, I guess not.
Speaker 1: I I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I just have to live with it somehow. Oh what
am I thinking about? I can't, I shouldn't, I mustn't.
It's crazy. Why is it crazy? Because something could happen?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 3: What could happen? I know what I'll do when he
answers how hang up?
Speaker 5: Beltis help?
Speaker 11: May I slp you?
Speaker 5: Hello? Hello? Is anyone on the name?
Speaker 1: Is anyone on the line? Or put it this way?
When I return with Act three, will there be anyone
on the line? Will she do the smart, same sensible
thing and hang up?
Speaker 10: Or will she Well, she's.
Speaker 1: A woman, and today's women's lib attitudes to the contrary, notwithstanding,
history is replete with women who go against specific instructions.
Blue Bear's wife and Dora Eve do we add eloise?
Speaker 5: When you see.
Speaker 11: You said?
Speaker 1: A lot a lot of things like beechwood aging for
natural carbonation. That's how the Budweiser people age their beer.
Speaker 10: Nobody else does.
Speaker 1: It that special way, But then nobody else is brewing
the King of Beers. I could tell you a lot
of other things about Budweiser and why it's the largest
selling beer in the world, but it all comes back
to the Budweiser taste and that speaks for itself.
Speaker 5: Loud and.
Speaker 1: Hear it talking, and I said you did, and iSER
Busch singles. Some three thousand calls a month like this
one come into the National Gun Tracing Center from law
enforcement agencies throughout the country. You're questing information on guns
used in crimes.
Speaker 7: Hello, this is ATF For the gun trace request.
Speaker 1: We check with the national and foreign manufacturers and forward
the dealer's name to the requesting agents. In some cases
we can do this in a matter of minutes.
Speaker 4: I will hold.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to report that Tiana sent the gun was
staring about six months ago. And I'm Brex Davis, Director
of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Gun tracing
is often the only means of solving a crime. If
you secure your gun against that you make our job
and that of your local police that much easier. Place
a complete description of your gun with your other important papers.
And if your gun is stolen, reported at once to
the police or atm Remember you're stolen. Gun threatens everyone.
Let us say your name is Jean Pierre de Pulicide,
and you are a respected dealer in antiques. About a
year ago one of your very good customers and her
husband were killed in the flaming wrecorde.
Speaker 2: Of an automobile accident.
Speaker 1: Now today you are sitting in your shop and the
phone rings, and you answer it. Hello, Hello, Hello, is
anyone under line?
Speaker 5: Oh? Hello?
Speaker 11: Who is this? Please?
Speaker 5: Monsieur?
Speaker 1: The police way?
Speaker 11: I know that voice, but no, how.
Speaker 1: Can it be?
Speaker 5: Uh? Monsieur? You have kept two secrets for me, can you.
Speaker 2: Keep a third?
Speaker 8: Don't say that name, Never say that name.
Speaker 1: You are alive.
Speaker 5: You must keep my secret.
Speaker 3: Certainly?
Speaker 1: How I miss your shop and how I miss you?
Speaker 5: My dam? Do you remember a come on?
Speaker 11: Good forget?
Speaker 5: If only I could have something like it?
Speaker 1: I have my eyes.
Speaker 2: I'm just the piece.
Speaker 1: It d would be available in several weeks.
Speaker 5: Could you could you buy it for me?
Speaker 11: It just done.
Speaker 8: Remember you must say nothing about my being alive.
Speaker 11: Your secrets are safe with me.
Speaker 1: Where shall I send this?
Speaker 5: My husband had just come in. I have to hang up.
I'll call you again when I get the chance.
Speaker 6: My dam Yes, i'm uh. I'm looking for Tom Rutlidge.
Speaker 10: We were in.
Speaker 6: Career together and he said, if you ever find yourself
in there around New York, come see me. So i've uh,
I've come saying uh you.
Speaker 1: You were a friend of gom.
Speaker 10: Oh I was better than a friend.
Speaker 1: The body won't you come in?
Speaker 11: Mister Sparrow?
Speaker 10: Thank you?
Speaker 2: Hey, look, I.
Speaker 1: Hope not wrong. I'm sorry I must tell you this,
but Tom's dead? What yah dead? In an automobile crawn
Tom and Eloise's wife. I'm Eloise's uncle, Alvin. I inherited their.
Speaker 2: Estate, Tom dad.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that. I can't either, Oh man like
me out living Tom and Eloise.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, I unsure you.
Speaker 2: Say?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: This is clyde A layout here. Practically every piece of
furniture is an antique.
Speaker 2: It seems to have a lot of class.
Speaker 1: I suppose the antique dealers around here were hit pretty
hard when poor Elouise was killed. And see what a
valuable customer she must have been.
Speaker 6: That yeah, yeah, I can see that well, thank you
for your hospitality.
Speaker 5: Sir.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I had to come all this way out
here for nothing.
Speaker 6: Well maybe it wasn't for nothing after all.
Speaker 1: Mary Anne, Mary Anne Alois, come in here, Alowe's.
Speaker 3: Master, darling, You tell me why are you so angry?
Speaker 1: Look at this?
Speaker 3: What are you talking about? This?
Speaker 1: This telephone bill?
Speaker 3: But what about it?
Speaker 1: You made a long distance call to New York to
Westchester County. There's the area code nine one four.
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Is that all you can say? Oh?
Speaker 3: But Tom with this person is absolutely customer.
Speaker 1: He is not the point. You're not supposed to be
in touch with anyone at all for any reason. That
was the agreement that who did you call?
Speaker 3: I call my antiquity, O Lord, I can trust him?
Speaker 1: What does he know? Tell me?
Speaker 3: Well, I guess he knows I'm still alone, But he
won't tell anyone he promised.
Speaker 1: Does he know where you are?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: No, I didn't tell you.
Speaker 1: Does he know your new name?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 1: Helloise. Oh it doesn't matter. It's it's the way you are.
You can't change, Tom, Please, you simply cannot keep your word.
I I can't become angry about it. It's it's a
sickness with you. Darling, go back home.
Speaker 2: This is my whole, back.
Speaker 1: East, where you'll be happy. They they don't want you,
they want me. I'll I'll take off, go somewhere they'll
ever find me.
Speaker 11: Tom.
Speaker 3: Please. I I don't know what gets into me.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is, Darling, we can't live with it, but I.
Speaker 3: I can't live without you, Tom. So whatever it is,
I'll fight it. I won't give into it to myself anymore.
I won't, Tom, please this time, believe.
Speaker 1: Me, all right, Darling, all right, I'll try to believe you.
But Darling, you'll have to call me Walter. Hello.
Speaker 5: I don't have too long to talk with you.
Speaker 1: Did you find me, madam? I find you a gym
exactly like the other, and the same price could send
out here.
Speaker 11: Of course.
Speaker 5: I don't want my husband to know I got it
from you.
Speaker 1: Indeed, I shall ship it to a friend in San Francisco.
He will send it on to you. You can claim
you so it advertised out there.
Speaker 5: Well, I think I can get away with that.
Speaker 1: What is yours?
Speaker 5: This is an absolute secret.
Speaker 11: I shall guard it with my life.
Speaker 5: All right, you send it to missus.
Speaker 8: Marianne Williams, Chair of Western State A and F Barrett Wyoming, Please.
Speaker 1: Cheap it secret, my dear madam, it is our fourth secret.
Mister Adkins, I'm Eloise re Lit his uncle. You remember
Tom and Eloise Red bitch?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 1: Are they really dead? What do you mean?
Speaker 5: Hm?
Speaker 1: Why couldn't you answer that question yes or no, mister Aradkins,
because I'm not sure I understand that question. Will let
me draw a picture a week ago? So man rings
my bell says he's an old army friend of Tom.
Here you follow me, yes, sir, Yeah, you're sure. It's
simple so far, and he asks about Tom. Did know
Tom was dead? That doesn't raise any suspicions. Now here's
where it gets complicated. I see this fella's picture in
this morning's paper. Here it is same person, and his
name's Paul Sparrow, and he's supposed to be a notorious gangster.
And he was asking about your nephew. I noticed he
didn't say my late nephew. No, I haven't said anything
at all, but I do want to thank you for
this very vital information. Good day to you, sir. Welcome
to the establishment of Jean Fieu polissid. Well, well, well,
if that ain't Benny the Frenchman. Hellow and look at you,
ha ha new racket. I have gone straight.
Speaker 2: It's this stuff on the level already. Do you get
hammered out in the back room.
Speaker 1: I have told you spellw I have gone straight all
the way.
Speaker 2: Well, I've I'm looking for a dame and twe haller. Uh.
She's been a good customer of years. Uh before she died.
Speaker 1: If she died, that is quite a description. M.
Speaker 6: Her name is was uh Elbowise Rutlidge or missus tom Lutlidge.
Speaker 1: Uh. I laid in the papers a year ago she
got killed in the carcash. Eh, what is on your mind?
Speaker 11: Spardle?
Speaker 1: The same thing?
Speaker 6: It was always on your mind, Benji squealers. I remember
how you always hated squealers is And that's her husband.
Speaker 11: He was killed too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I said in the papers. I warned him,
but uh he's already dead. No, No, the fats gotten stashed.
So I figured maybe she's been in touch why to
buy some antiques.
Speaker 1: That would be okay, But uh, I have not told
for her.
Speaker 10: You have her?
Speaker 1: I tell me, why'd you just cover that piece of
paper with your hand y?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: But what were you talking about?
Speaker 2: Like you didn't even know you were doing it.
Speaker 1: H I just had to write something down. You let
me see just a customer's name. Uh ll look for yourself.
Speaker 2: Mary Anne Williams.
Speaker 6: How come you got a customer all the way out
in Wyoming?
Speaker 11: She likes and kicks.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 6: I'd like to bet that this Mary Anne Williams is
Eloise Rutlege.
Speaker 1: You would us, Well, it's worth a trip. You want
to waste your time?
Speaker 2: Go ahead? Look, I trust you.
Speaker 5: Denny?
Speaker 1: Is she? Oh?
Speaker 2: Ain't she the dame?
Speaker 10: I'm looking for her?
Speaker 5: She is not?
Speaker 2: Okay, pal, that's the last word out with Benny.
Speaker 1: He will work on at that phone. Then when did
you come back?
Speaker 6: You're getting careless. I'd come back to see if you
was gonna phone under the trip of off.
Speaker 1: She's a business call and over the phone, oh.
Speaker 2: She if it's legit business call?
Speaker 6: Hand that's over now come on next good Hello?
Speaker 5: Hello?
Speaker 6: Oh uh ma'am, I I think maybe I got a
wrong number.
Speaker 2: Can you tell me where I reached?
Speaker 5: Yes? This is Barren, Wyoming.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 6: Eh it's the truth, Benji, I'm really sorry, darling.
Speaker 1: Sip down. What is it you told me? You saw
the ad for this antique commode in a San Francisco paper.
Would you have kept the ad by any chance?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: No, No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you why. I don't think there was
an ad.
Speaker 3: What do you say?
Speaker 1: Wait, I haven't said it yet. In the bottom drawer,
I saw an old and faded sticker. Do you know
what it said? Dapoli Sard's Antiques, Larchmont, New York.
Speaker 11: Who else?
Speaker 3: Maybe he did own the antique originally, and then he
said hold it to this dealer.
Speaker 1: About a month ago you called him. I did, M M.
And at that time you swore to me that you
didn't give him my new address.
Speaker 3: Well I didn't.
Speaker 1: Did you call him since? Did you call him since
to tell him where we were living?
Speaker 3: Did you? You're making it sound like like call him.
Speaker 1: Oh you know what we have to do now, don't you. No,
you have to get out of here as quickly as
we can.
Speaker 3: Why supposed to Coulissar does know you can trust Hiven,
that's right.
Speaker 2: But that was this guy that was as.
Speaker 3: Oh you, oh Tommy, he's gonna come.
Speaker 2: Nobody can say your wife don't know this.
Speaker 11: Well, what are you going to do?
Speaker 1: What do you think he's gonna do.
Speaker 6: Please, I don't feel bad about the ship pull his
side as you called him.
Speaker 2: It wasn't his fault. Besides, he's dead.
Speaker 3: Look, if you shoot us, people are all around on
campus and they'll hear the shots.
Speaker 2: This it's a silencer. You'll just see a couple of
little bop you come.
Speaker 1: My sugestion is for you to drop the pistol and
walk out the front door.
Speaker 2: There. That sounds above right, drop.
Speaker 3: It, m oh, mister Atkins, Tom.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry you folks will just have to do
it again. You can't stay here, Hellouise, I I don't
know if I can go through it again. Let him
get me and get it over.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, trust me, trust me. I really learned my.
Speaker 1: Listen, Heluise. Can I really believe you?
Speaker 3: Yes, darling, Yes, this time you really can believe me.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll never know if you can or not. When
our stories are over, they're over. What happens after our
third act curtain descends has to be another story, and
I shall have another story for you when I return
in just a few moments. If you're a high blood
pressure person and your doctor says there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: Kind of day because you are good.
Speaker 1: Way well, get way.
Speaker 10: Stay well.
Speaker 1: Stay it might have to be. Your life is.
Speaker 5: To be happy, your life.
Speaker 10: Get well.
Speaker 4: National High Blood Pressure Month is a good time to
find out if you are a high blood pressure person.
Get well, get with it, because there are there some
twenty three million people with high blood pressure in the
United States today. If you do have high blood pressure
and medication has been prescribed for you, then remember this advice.
Speaker 3: A message from your heart association.
Speaker 1: The delicate balance between a lie and the truth.
Speaker 11: What is it?
Speaker 1: It's an entire dimension that is neither true nor false,
but something somewhere in between. It's a place of shadow
and mystery. And let us say it's that never never
land where the leopard and indeed all of us try
to change.
Speaker 6: Our spots or whatever.
Speaker 1: Our cast included a Shepherd, Russell Horton, Gilmack and Leon Johnny.
The entire production was under the direction of i'mon Brown
and Now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 3: I kept getting smaller and smaller, the mean part of me.
Do you think I'm.
Speaker 1: Using my mind from No, no, no, don't ever think
like that. Ah, I know what it is.
Speaker 3: And I wish you'd tell me, just so I will
keep thinking.
Speaker 5: Maybe I'm going mad.
Speaker 1: It's my stepmother, your stepmother.
Speaker 2: It isn't the house.
Speaker 1: I was wrong about that. She uses the house, that's all.
Speaker 10: I don't understand.
Speaker 1: She's in there, Laura, in her house, her house. They
left a lot of my stepmother unburied. You're it. The
thing that wants you as its living agent is what
they left behind unburied. Oh, Frank, When you're in that house, Laura,
whenever you're in that house, you are my stepmother. Radio
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another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams,