Speaker 1: Tired of the everyday grind, ever dream of a life
Speaker 1: of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all.
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Speaker 3: of today for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are traveling east on a cross country bus, while
Speaker 1: among your fellow passengers, seemingly innocent and friendly, are a
Speaker 1: man and a woman who plan to destroy you and
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty million of your countrymen.
Speaker 4: Listen now as Escape brings you Anthony Ellis's exciting story
Speaker 4: Classified Secret.
Speaker 5: Nice day kids share not spring. Look at him.
Speaker 6: I've been watching them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, kind of glad though I haven't got any Oh well,
Speaker 5: you know, world conditions, things the way they are. Who
Speaker 5: wants to bring a kid into it?
Speaker 7: I suppose.
Speaker 6: So do you have a match?
Speaker 5: Sure? Here you are.
Speaker 6: Thanks?
Speaker 7: Have you got it?
Speaker 6: What's the matter?
Speaker 5: Well, you don't look the type. I almost hoped you weren't.
Speaker 5: Have you got it with me?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: But I'll take you to where it is, all right.
Speaker 6: The money's in tens, twenties and fifties.
Speaker 5: In the sack with the groceries. Mmm.
Speaker 6: I thought it'd be safer that way.
Speaker 5: So how much ten thousand, ten.
Speaker 6: That's what you agreed to.
Speaker 5: Uh huh, I said twenty.
Speaker 6: I was told ten.
Speaker 5: They made a mistake, then, didn't they?
Speaker 6: Sorry, what are you trying to do?
Speaker 5: Nothing? Not a thing?
Speaker 6: I was told you were with us.
Speaker 5: I am, but I get paid for it too, don't you.
Speaker 6: I can't sit here any longer.
Speaker 7: We might be watched.
Speaker 6: Will you please give me?
Speaker 5: Sorry, it was a misunderstanding, but unless you want to
Speaker 5: take me to the headman, maybe he can straighten it out.
Speaker 6: I haven't any instructions for that. Where can I reach you?
Speaker 5: As of about two hours and now you can, I'm
Speaker 5: leaving town.
Speaker 6: Will you give us twenty four hours? It'll take that long.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 5: If you can't pay what I want, there's somebody else
Speaker 5: who will.
Speaker 6: I'm going.
Speaker 5: So long. I was sitting on a bench in a
Speaker 5: little park in North Hollywood, California. The early spring sun
Speaker 5: was warm, and there was a smell of fresh cut grass.
Speaker 5: I watched the woman I'd never seen before walk off
Speaker 5: down the path. She was headed for the avenue and
Speaker 5: some cars parked beyond the trees. I thought, how nice
Speaker 5: it would have been if if she were just a
Speaker 5: woman in the park and nothing else. I waited until
Speaker 5: she was out of sight, and I got up and
Speaker 5: walked away in the opposite direction. I got the bus
Speaker 5: at the Hollywood station. I had a train ticket in
Speaker 5: my pocket, but with a new development, it looked safer
Speaker 5: to ride the bus. Just before we pulled out, a
Speaker 5: girl climbed aboard and came down the aisle looking for
Speaker 5: a seat.
Speaker 8: Excuse me, is this number eighteen?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 7: Thank you?
Speaker 5: Oh here, let me put your case up.
Speaker 7: Thank you. I was afraid I was gonna listen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know how it is. I settled back, watched
Speaker 5: the city drift away into desert country. As buses go,
Speaker 5: It was pretty quiet. There was a four or five
Speaker 5: year old kid with his mother a couple of seats forward,
Speaker 5: but he dozed off almost as soon as he got running.
Speaker 5: I took a look at the girls sitting next to me,
Speaker 5: not in the way you might think, but because in
Speaker 5: my business you get to learn to look at people.
Speaker 5: You never know who it might be. She must have
Speaker 5: felt me watching. She lowered the magazine she was reading.
Speaker 7: Would you uh care to look at one of these?
Speaker 5: Well, that's nice of you. I I always forget to
Speaker 5: buy 'em.
Speaker 7: This one's a mystery.
Speaker 8: I don't usually read them, but on a long trip
Speaker 8: they kind of passed the time away.
Speaker 5: Yeah they do. How far are you going New York,
Speaker 5: m that's a long trip, all right.
Speaker 8: I'll say I haven't been back for ten years.
Speaker 7: Bet it's changed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess so. I read the mystery well into Arizona.
Speaker 5: When I finished, it was beginning to get dark. The
Speaker 5: kid up her head was awake and hungry. There was
Speaker 5: a feeling of expectation on the bus as we drove
Speaker 5: into the first night of travel.
Speaker 6: Next time youth School.
Speaker 7: Did you enjoy it?
Speaker 5: Oh? Yes, it was fine, Thanks a lot.
Speaker 7: What was it about.
Speaker 5: Spies? Real exciting?
Speaker 8: I like spy movies sometimes. I think they do so
Speaker 8: many of them. You read about it in the papers
Speaker 8: all the time.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I think people would get sick of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 8: They're exciting. Like you say, I bet it isn't really
Speaker 8: like that.
Speaker 5: I dot it. Say. My name's Charlie, Charlie Raider.
Speaker 7: Oh, how you do. I'm Julie Spalding.
Speaker 9: Hi.
Speaker 8: That kid sounds as hungry as I am.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: We ought to be stopping soon, I hope.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 5: About fifteen minutes later, we pulled up at a restaurant
Speaker 5: terminal and went in for food. I watched any new
Speaker 5: passengers who might be getting on. I didn't see anybody,
Speaker 5: And as soon as I had finished my sandwich and coffee,
Speaker 5: I sent a telegram to New York, and then got
Speaker 5: back on the bus. The girl, Julie and I seem
Speaker 5: to be hitting it off, and it was pleasant enough
Speaker 5: to pass the time. After we got rolling, the kid
Speaker 5: up ahead decided to sing himself to sleep.
Speaker 8: It was like a.
Speaker 5: Crooning, over and over again, the same song, the same
Speaker 5: few notes. I guess it put everybody else to sleep
Speaker 5: except him.
Speaker 7: Makes you sleepy, doesn't it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, reminds me of when I was a kid.
Speaker 7: I used to do that. Kids are funny.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 8: Well, I don't know. I'm going back to New York
Speaker 8: for my sister's wedding. She's getting married next week.
Speaker 7: She says, she want it's lots of kids. I don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know what you mean.
Speaker 7: Mind if I ask you something?
Speaker 5: No, I don't mind.
Speaker 7: What are you married?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 7: I don't mean it the way it sounds.
Speaker 8: I'm always interested in trying to guess about people. Now,
Speaker 8: I would have figured you were a married man with
Speaker 8: maybe two.
Speaker 7: Or three kids.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not married.
Speaker 8: Oh, I hope you don't think I'm nosy. No, Well,
Speaker 8: kids singing fixed me.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna take a nap.
Speaker 5: Good night, Charlie, good night. I must have dropped off too.
Speaker 5: When I woke up, she had her head on my shoulder,
Speaker 5: A lock of her hair was falling over her closed eyes.
Speaker 5: And then I knew something was different on the bus
Speaker 5: somebody on the other side of the aisle watching.
Speaker 10: Excuse me, mister, you've got a match I'm clean out.
Speaker 5: M mm, sure just a minute here, you're right? Thanks, No, no,
Speaker 5: I'm keep 'em.
Speaker 2: Oh, fye, fye, thanks a lot.
Speaker 5: Say, have you got any idea where we are?
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I got on at flagstaff for an
Speaker 2: hour or so.
Speaker 10: Back.
Speaker 2: M Oh boy, I envy her. I wish I could
Speaker 2: sleep like that your wife.
Speaker 7: No, h.
Speaker 2: Oh, Say that's rude, taking your matches and not offering
Speaker 2: you a cigarette.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's okay. No, I don't want no thanks.
Speaker 2: Say I want to tell you something.
Speaker 5: Mhmm.
Speaker 10: There's a lady in the seat behind you. I think
Speaker 10: you've met her before in the park, right m hm.
Speaker 10: We brought her with us to identify you, but she
Speaker 10: gave us a pretty good description back in LA.
Speaker 5: Good for her.
Speaker 2: This is going to be a nice trip. Nothing like
Speaker 2: traveling with people you know?
Speaker 5: Is there nothing like it?
Speaker 10: I I don't suppose you've got any reading material you
Speaker 10: would let me look?
Speaker 5: Okay, how about a mystery. It's a spy story. Pretty good.
Speaker 2: Now I was thinking of something else. I think you know.
Speaker 10: Something more scientific. I'm very interested in airplanes, jet motives.
Speaker 5: Sorry, he looked across at me, smiling, pleasant, and anybody
Speaker 5: watching it was nothing more than the casual conversation of
Speaker 5: two strangers brought together by the night and sympathy of loneliness.
Speaker 5: Then he leaned back, and, reaching inside his jacket, brought
Speaker 5: out a small automatic, which he kept very carefully hidden
Speaker 5: from any eyes.
Speaker 2: But mine always carry this with me on a trip.
Speaker 2: You never know.
Speaker 5: I knew, all right. If they couldn't buy what they wanted,
Speaker 5: there were other ways, That's what he was telling me.
Speaker 5: And I saw in the man's smiling face that I'd
Speaker 5: never reached New York unless I killed them before they
Speaker 5: killed me.
Speaker 4: We will return to Escape in just a moment, but first,
Speaker 4: the program that follows Tonight's story of Escape is a
Speaker 4: special repeat broadcast of CBS Radio's hard hitting drama Bomb
Speaker 4: Target USA, with Arthur Godfrey's narrator and a core of
Speaker 4: crack CBS radio newsmen reporting from spottered locations and from
Speaker 4: so called enemy bombing squadrons approaching our shores. Bomb Target
Speaker 4: USA reports factually and without fanfare, exactly what America can
Speaker 4: expect today if enemy atomic bombers rated our major cities.
Speaker 4: Immediately Following Escape tonight on most of these same CBS
Speaker 4: radio stations, keep tuned for Bomb Target USA. Now back
Speaker 4: to Escape.
Speaker 5: Julie and I had breakfast somewhere in New Mexico. The
Speaker 5: woman from the park and the man who carried the
Speaker 5: small automatic sat in a booth while we ate at
Speaker 5: the counter. I'd thought about things most of the night,
Speaker 5: and I decided to tell the girl, not too much,
Speaker 5: but enough so that she might be able to help.
Speaker 5: And I knew i'd need some help.
Speaker 8: Coffee's pretty good here, yeah, cigarette, No.
Speaker 7: Thanks, Julie.
Speaker 5: Yes, I want to tell you something.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 5: I don't want you to turn around and look, because
Speaker 5: pretend we're talking about the weather, coffee or anything, but listen. Well, sure, Charley,
Speaker 5: there's a couple sitting in the booth behind us. They're spies.
Speaker 3: Hm.
Speaker 5: Hm, oh you I'm not kidding. I can't tell you much,
Speaker 5: but as you love your life, you'll believe me.
Speaker 8: You're kidding, spy.
Speaker 5: Don't turn around, smile, just listening. But are trying to
Speaker 5: get hold of the plans for a new jet motor.
Speaker 5: It's faster than anything anybody else has got.
Speaker 7: You are kidding?
Speaker 5: No, I'm not.
Speaker 7: How do you know?
Speaker 8: How do you know about it?
Speaker 5: I'm working for the government FBI in a way. Now
Speaker 5: I need you to help me me. They think I've
Speaker 5: got the blueprints, their plans, and they're going to try
Speaker 5: and get them from me.
Speaker 7: But can't we get the police.
Speaker 5: No, because we're trying to get the headman, and of
Speaker 5: those two are arrested, will have to start all over again.
Speaker 5: They think I'm working with them, but I got tough
Speaker 5: about the money they offered, So now they're going to
Speaker 5: try and get rid of me and get the secret
Speaker 5: for nothing.
Speaker 7: Did they follow you from Los ask.
Speaker 5: Yes, they got on during the night in Flagstaff.
Speaker 7: I don't see.
Speaker 5: Well, just stick with no. I'll explain it the next stop.
Speaker 5: We can't talk about it on the bus because She's
Speaker 5: sitting right behind, and he's across the aisle.
Speaker 8: Listen, are you pulling my No? No, you're not, are you?
Speaker 5: I'm not. We went on through New Mexico and the
Speaker 5: Pink Rock and the desert. We talked a lot of nonsense,
Speaker 5: and after a while I could see she was getting
Speaker 5: back to the idea that I'd been kidding, especially after
Speaker 5: the man with the gun introduced himself as mister Hutchinson
Speaker 5: and started to talk about fishing. It was about a
Speaker 5: half hour before our lunch stopped.
Speaker 10: Now you take some of that northern California country, talk
Speaker 10: about trout steal head.
Speaker 8: I tell you you are to take us up, my
Speaker 8: sister and me, take us up to a place in Maine.
Speaker 8: That always wanted a couple of boys, I guess, but
Speaker 8: when he saw what he got, he figured it wouldn't
Speaker 8: spoil his plans anyway, so he took his fishing every summer.
Speaker 8: You should have seen the fishing up there.
Speaker 10: I'd like to someday, I'd like that. How about you,
Speaker 10: mister raider, Do you like fishing?
Speaker 5: No, not much. Did you ever try it a little
Speaker 5: when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: You ought to take it up again.
Speaker 5: If you have time as I might do that.
Speaker 9: Half a man had a little money put away, he
Speaker 9: could do a lot of fishing.
Speaker 2: That's the way to live.
Speaker 10: Have about ten thousand dollars, go all over the country fishing,
Speaker 10: no work, no worries.
Speaker 2: How does that sound, Miss Swalling?
Speaker 5: What a life it'd take more than ten thousand, Oh.
Speaker 2: I don't know, tens better than.
Speaker 7: Nothing, ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: Why they went on talking, and addition, thinking he was
Speaker 5: smarter than I'd thought, looked like a nice savage guy,
Speaker 5: and behaved like one. That's one thing I'd learned. The
Speaker 5: more ordinary you can be, the less you're going to
Speaker 5: be suspected. And these people headed down to a science.
Speaker 5: It wasn't going to be easy because I was going
Speaker 5: to have to convince Julia all over again. I could
Speaker 5: see that my chance didn't come until that evening, after
Speaker 5: our dinner stop. By that time, the woman in the
Speaker 5: park who went with the name of Lisa Nyland Hutchinson,
Speaker 5: the girl and myself, all four of us were buddies.
Speaker 5: We'd pulled up over the Colorado border. There was some
Speaker 5: kind of trouble up ahead, a slide or a wreck.
Speaker 5: The driver told us we'd have a half hour or
Speaker 5: so before we went on.
Speaker 3: You want to take a walk for a while.
Speaker 11: There's a cafe a couple of hundred yards back.
Speaker 4: I'll give you a paul and are ready to move on.
Speaker 9: Kind of nice to have an extra lake stretch.
Speaker 2: How about some coffee?
Speaker 7: Nice, Charlie.
Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know. I'd like to have a look
Speaker 5: at the valley down there. We might walk up the
Speaker 5: dirt road away get a pretty good view sunset and
Speaker 5: all romany?
Speaker 7: Sure?
Speaker 10: Why not, oh, Charlie, okay with you, Lisa, you feel romany?
Speaker 10: Want to see a valley in the sunset?
Speaker 7: Nice?
Speaker 9: Okay, let's go.
Speaker 5: We walked away from the bus and up a narrow
Speaker 5: ranch road about one hundred yards up. There was a
Speaker 5: curve and around to the stand of trees. When we
Speaker 5: got there, you couldn't hear the sounds from the highway
Speaker 5: any longer. It is peaceful and it was very pretty.
Speaker 5: I knew that Hutchinson was delighted about the suggestion. It
Speaker 5: was going to give him his chance, But he made
Speaker 5: the mistake of playing it a little too clever, and
Speaker 5: he kept his game of small talk going a minute
Speaker 5: too long. We'd got to the top of a cliff
Speaker 5: overlooking the valley when I stumbled on a rock and
Speaker 5: fell a few steps behind before they had a chance
Speaker 5: to stop, And when they did, I already had my
Speaker 5: gun on.
Speaker 2: Hey, what are you going to do? Target practice?
Speaker 5: No, Julie, get over here, you too, Say where you
Speaker 5: are and keep your hands behind your head.
Speaker 8: Charlie, Charlie, are you sure they see?
Speaker 5: I know what they seem now. Look, I don't want
Speaker 5: to do this, but it's you or me. You should
Speaker 5: have made the right deal in the first place. I
Speaker 5: can't let you go.
Speaker 2: You know that we might still make a deed.
Speaker 5: You had your chance.
Speaker 6: We've got the ten thousand. How about waiting till we
Speaker 6: get to the next town. We'll have the rest of it.
Speaker 2: Telegram.
Speaker 5: I make mistakes, but not that kind.
Speaker 9: If you told us what you wanted, we might have
Speaker 9: been able to get the twenty thousand in los Ange.
Speaker 5: Turn around, both of you.
Speaker 9: No, wait a minute, we're all in this together. We
Speaker 9: all want the same thing. You figure you can get
Speaker 9: more money from the headman in the east. Okay, okay,
Speaker 9: give us a chance to get it for you. We're
Speaker 9: in contact.
Speaker 5: Turn around, he gives us our orders.
Speaker 9: What difference does it make oh love, look, you shoot us,
Speaker 9: What do you think they'll do. They won't let you
Speaker 9: get away with it. They'll kill you.
Speaker 7: Charlie.
Speaker 8: Can't just shoot them, turn them over to the police.
Speaker 7: You can't just shoot them.
Speaker 2: He can't tell the police, Julie. He's with us.
Speaker 9: Only he wants money out of it, and he thinks
Speaker 9: he'll get more from the headman.
Speaker 2: In the eaves.
Speaker 5: Turn around. I'm not gonna say.
Speaker 8: It again, Charlie, don't. I know you've got a duty,
Speaker 8: but you can arrest them.
Speaker 5: Please, you can still hold.
Speaker 2: You to be quiet, arrest listen, Rader.
Speaker 9: You're not gonna get You're not gonna kill us over
Speaker 9: ten thousand.
Speaker 2: Why it's murdy even.
Speaker 1: If you.
Speaker 5: Nylon dropped without a sound. Hutchinson held his middle for
Speaker 5: a second and tried to keep his balance. I shot
Speaker 5: him in the back of the head. I knew he
Speaker 5: was dead before his body slipped to the ground. The
Speaker 5: girl just stood next to me, her hands tightly covering
Speaker 5: her mouth, and she was shivering. I took a look
Speaker 5: across the wide valley. The sky was turning purple.
Speaker 8: I've never seen anybody killed before.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: Couldn't you couldn't you have arrested them or something. Couldn't you?
Speaker 1: Did?
Speaker 7: You have to?
Speaker 5: I had to. They wouldn't have stopped it, killing both
Speaker 5: of us if they'd had the chance.
Speaker 8: What are you going to do? What are you going
Speaker 8: to do now?
Speaker 5: I've got to get the money for evidence?
Speaker 7: What are you going to tell the driver? Ask where
Speaker 7: they are? Charlie.
Speaker 8: Driver's gonna wonder where they are, Charlie.
Speaker 7: What are you doing?
Speaker 5: I've got to put them over the cliff.
Speaker 9: No oh no, I've got to.
Speaker 8: Oh no, oh, you can't, Charlie.
Speaker 5: No, all right, come on. We got back to the bus,
Speaker 5: and neither of us said anything about the two we'd
Speaker 5: walked off with. I guess nobody had seen this together,
Speaker 5: And after waiting around for another half hour, the driver
Speaker 5: gave up.
Speaker 11: Well, I'll drop their baggage in Landa.
Speaker 2: You don't know to fight the police too.
Speaker 5: Screw me, all right.
Speaker 4: Okay, folks, sorry for the delay.
Speaker 2: You better go back your seat, mister sure. I was starved.
Speaker 5: When he pulled into the depot Atlanta, I'd already made
Speaker 5: up my mind to lay over and take a detail
Speaker 5: on another bus. The girl wasn't going to be able
Speaker 5: to keep quiet much longer and I had to get
Speaker 5: rid of her. We got out of the bus and
Speaker 5: the two men were standing alongside, waiting.
Speaker 11: Just a minute, please, we're special agents for the FBI.
Speaker 11: Search them learning Oh, just a gun and money.
Speaker 5: Well the other two, the other two, they're dead.
Speaker 7: He killed them.
Speaker 11: Oh, we'll take those plans now, mister Rader. I don't
Speaker 11: do anything silly. There are four men covering her.
Speaker 5: Okay, it's in my shoe. You want me to take
Speaker 5: it off now?
Speaker 11: Please? Here, thank you, mister Rader. This isn't worth anything. Really.
Speaker 11: You know, we planted in the factory in La for
Speaker 11: someone to steal. What we wanted was to be led
Speaker 11: to the top man in New York. And when you
Speaker 11: sent that wire to him back in Arizona, we got him.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 11: We were worried about you, Julie. When you didn't call
Speaker 11: us from Albuquerque.
Speaker 8: I didn't get a chance. He was with me all
Speaker 8: the time.
Speaker 5: Is she is she? Are you playing spy too, Julie.
Speaker 8: I am working for the government, mister Rader.
Speaker 11: She's been following you since you stole the plans.
Speaker 5: Well, you fooled me. I bet you fool Hutchinson in
Speaker 5: Ireland too. It won't matter to them. Oh will it? Well,
Speaker 5: that's the way it goes.
Speaker 8: Take him away, will you? I had to watch him
Speaker 8: murder those two.
Speaker 7: I don't want to hear him laugh about it.
Speaker 11: Come on, Rader, we've got a car winning.
Speaker 5: Sure, So long, Julie nice to mention.
Speaker 4: Escape has brought You Classified Secret, Written and directed by
Speaker 4: Anthony Ellas, starring Parley Bear. Featured in the cast were
Speaker 4: Charlotte Lawrence, Peter Leeds, Miriam Krushion, Tim Graham, Leroy Leonard,
Speaker 4: and Georgia Ellis. The special music for Escape is composed
Speaker 4: and conducted by Leith Stevens.
Speaker 1: Next week, you are in a canteena in Mexico, listening
Speaker 1: to a man speak his hate for you in word
Speaker 1: and music, while somewhere in jeopardy, without your knowledge and
Speaker 1: beyond your reach, is the one you love who may
Speaker 1: lose her life for the man who sits across the
Speaker 1: table hating you is the only one who can save her.
Speaker 4: So listen next week when Escape brings you e Jack
Speaker 4: Newman's exciting story El Gitarero Tomorrow night the Lux Radio
Speaker 4: Theater stars Jane Wyman and Dick Haymes. The play is
Speaker 4: just for You with Jane recreating her original screen role.
Speaker 4: It's a musical comedy about a widowed Broadway play producer
Speaker 4: who loves his star and faces complications and the reactions
Speaker 4: of his son and daughter. Just for you, Lux Radio
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Speaker 2: The same evening.
Speaker 4: CBS Radio stars Fred McMurray in suspense's Saga of the
Speaker 4: Great Train Robbery. That's tomorrow night at the Star's address.
Speaker 4: This is Roy Rowan speaking. And remember you have a
Speaker 4: date with Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts Monday evenings on the
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Speaker 1: No.