Speaker 1: The Avenger.
Speaker 2: The road to crime ends in a trap that justice sets,
crime does not pay.
Speaker 3: The Avenger, sworn enemy of evil, is actually Jim Brandon,
a famous biochemist. Through his numerous scientific experiments, Brandon has
perfected two inventions to aid him in his crusade against
crime as the Avenger, the telepathic indicator by which he
is able to pick up thought flashes, and the secret
diffusion capsule, which cloaks him in the black light of invisibility.
Brandon's assistant, the Beautiful Firm Collier, is the only one
who shares his secrets and knows that he is the
man the underworld fears as the Avenger and now.
Speaker 4: The Avenger, and rendezvous with murder as a train coming baits.
We better hide over there behind the bushes until it
goes past. Nobody'll notice his temper. It's nearly done. I'm
not taking any chances. Come on, okay, yah, we're out
of sight here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, who's gonna see us out here in this
lonely road.
Speaker 4: I like to know, break mineral engineer, Maybe, how many
years do you have to spend in the pen before
you learn not to take any chances? On? Witnesses a
layoff at Tamper. We're out now. I'm not forgetting them
five years baits, I know, because you bungle a small
time stick up. While we could have pulled his Glenhurst
bang job long ago. We hadn't landed in the jug
my load till the frame goes past.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, it's going.
Speaker 4: Let's get out of it, Tapper. This this place gives
me the creeps. Yeah, I just assume forget what happened
to this crossing myself.
Speaker 5: M say, is this the spot where we planted that
contract with the tracks six years ago?
Speaker 4: Sure it is. Yeah, right down the road there's a
place where you and me jumped out of the car
and send it headlong into the eight fifteen. Yeah that's right, Yeah,
I recognize it. Now, Hey, what'd you come this way for? Tapper?
I don't I don't like to think of that guy
we bumped off. You don't Murder's one rap? You can't
shut up. Nobody said it was murdered, did they. The
police said it was an accident, just like we planned.
It was a pretty slick job all around. Well maybe,
but I still don't see why we had to park
our car and come this way. I suppose you'd sooner
go down main Street so everybody could get a gander.
It is huh oh wait here, turn turn this way
through these gates, Hey Tapper, what's the idea? That's a graveyard? Sure,
and there ain't a better place for two guys that
lay low for a couple hours. Now, come on, Oh,
I don't like this temper.
Speaker 5: It's it's like, well, like the companies they're all shooting
off about returning to the scene of the crime.
Speaker 4: It's it's like we was trying to put a jinx
on um that kind of gab. It's a matter of dates.
Are you turning yellow? Only? I come then we'll go
over there under them trees and stretch out and have
a smoke. How long we got to wait in this place? Well,
it won't be safe to start working on the bank
until close to midnight. I figured it shouldn't take us
more in an hour to pull out that little section
of wall, grab the swag cover on tracks and hit
the road. Oh hit, yeah, let's let's sit down here. Okay, hey,
give me a lot of yeah, yeah, Hey look at that,
will you what now that tombstone? Look what it says?
Put your flashlight on it and stop blubbering. Hold it steady,
will you? Okay? In memory of Peter Moultrie, it said
contractor guy we bumped off. That was his name, Moultrie.
Peter Moultrie.
Speaker 6: Hey, yeah, that's him.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm getting out of here. Hey, what your beats?
This guy Moultrie has been dead and buried for almost
six years. He can't hurt us. Yeah, but Tamper, I
tell you this place is a jinx. Let's pull out her,
you nuts. Sit down. We've got some plans to make.
This job's got the finger on it, Tapper, I can
feel that up and listen to me. There's a couple
one hundred grand just waiting for us down there on
the Glenhurst Bank. All we gotta do is go in
and take it. I know. Here's the blueprint of the
bank I snitched when he was helping build a place.
Hold up a little lower, all right, okay, Now here's
the section of the back wall we rigged. Plenty of
room to crawl through. Yeah, but what if somebody hears
us knocking the wall out? Got a chance we fix
that section. So it's his weakest putty. Now, this muffled
hammer or loosen the bricks. Well, are you sure about
the alarm tap? Sure? Hey, remember how we loop the
wires that'll keep the alarm dead within the limits.
Speaker 6: I'm marked here. Now, how about the vault. You got
all that dope.
Speaker 4: Straight, Base?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I can open that all right.
Speaker 6: Now, we gotta be careful about fingerprints.
Speaker 4: Don't forget. We've got a wreck it now and that
was proof we leave any calling cards? Uh huh, I
got all that. Okay. Now, after we put the dough
in the car, we go back and patch up that
hole in the wall. That's the part I don't like.
Speaker 5: I don't see why you wanna do that, because that'll
give us a whole extra day to get away.
Speaker 4: That's why this is Saturday night and nobody notices anything
wrong with the wall. The stick up won't be discovered
until Monday morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess you're right at den.
Speaker 4: Now, let's grab a couple hours rest. We'll need it
when we start driving here. Sure, this is the best
place in the world. Asleep, sweet ves pal. What's hey? Hey, gammer,
take it easy, Base, Wait a minute, it's only a
job running down.
Speaker 6: And taw the freight yards. What time is it tamper
Uh ten thirty.
Speaker 4: It's time for us to start moving. Huh, baits, I've
been thinking there's just one thing.
Speaker 6: That could trip us up on this job.
Speaker 4: What's it?
Speaker 6: It's a long shot, but it's the kind of long
shot I don't like.
Speaker 5: Listen, Tapper, you can count me out if it ain't foolproof.
I ain't gonna make it.
Speaker 4: Foolproof, Baits, I don't get you. Well, when we was
helping build that bank, we went under phony names and
kept to ourselves. Yeah, we was careful, all right. You
You wouldn't let me go on a place. You remember
a move? These little girl coming around one day and
taking pictures of all the men on the job.
Speaker 5: No, no, I don't remember that.
Speaker 4: Well, she did later. I got negatives from her, But
now I'm wondering if she kept them pictures. If she did,
what's it different? Plenty a minute, the stick ups discovered
and they get a gander at that pulled out wall,
the coppers will know was framed by somebody who helped
build the place.
Speaker 7: And then they'll start investigating all them guys.
Speaker 5: Huh yeah yeah, but they'll be up a blind alley
about us because of them funny name, and.
Speaker 4: That's where the pictures figure in. That girl would turn
them in and the police would match them up with
two guys in the rogues gallery by the name of
Tapper and Baits. Oh that sells it. Count me out
nothing doing? You and me. You're gonna pay a little
visit to miss Janis Moultrie. We've got to get them pictures.
Oh not me. I'm afraid to steal a few snapshots
from a kid, are you? No? Only? Who look Tapper?
Speaker 5: She she won't be a kid now, she she'd be
grown up or what?
Speaker 4: Nothing? I guess whoa When do we get starting in
another ten minutes, Saint Tapper? What if that Moultrie girl
gets in our way and it's just gonna be too
bad for her cause I'm not gonna let any dame
stand between me and that money. We'll get them pictures,
bait if we have to plant that girl right down
there beside her. Old man.
Speaker 8: Jim Att was sweet of you to drive all the
way down here to Glenhurst to take Jannis and me
to the charity rally.
Speaker 2: Pure Selfie's on a part, Fern. I miss you when
you go away for weekends.
Speaker 8: That's nice for a while it looked as though both
Jannis and I were going to be stood up.
Speaker 1: Why I thought Bill Cummings was going along?
Speaker 8: Called Janis half an hour ago. He has to work
something about drawing up a will for a sick client.
Speaker 1: Ah, that's too bad. I was looking forward to seeing
Bill again.
Speaker 8: Well, maybe after the rally. No, I can't.
Speaker 2: Inspector White's going to call me at my hotel at
eleven thirty. I'll have to be there to get his call.
Speaker 8: We'll have to leave the rally early then, Dinna, we'll
be ready in a few minutes.
Speaker 4: I bet you both die.
Speaker 1: Oh, fern is always starving? Janie? Tell me did she
have an appetite like that when she went to school?
Speaker 4: Always? But how she managed to keep slim on? It
was watch time at the rest.
Speaker 8: I see where I'm in arriving for Jim. I'm awfully
glad you could come. I want to talk to you
about Dad, your father. Yes, Janie still isn't convinced that
it was an accident. Jim, No, I'm not.
Speaker 4: Jim.
Speaker 8: Oh, I know it was a long time ago, and
everyone seems to have forgotten all about it except me.
Speaker 2: Well, it's natural for you to feel like that, Janie.
But the police investigated the case thoroughly at the time
and there was no hint of foul play.
Speaker 8: I know all that, Jim, but I knew my father.
He was a most careful driver, and it was never
established what he was doing out there on that lonely
road that night.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll recheck all the evidence tomorrow, if it'll make
you feel any better, Jennis.
Speaker 8: Thanks Jim.
Speaker 2: Oh, hell a Bosco boy. Come here, boy, Bosco is
glad to see that Bosco.
Speaker 1: Get down. No, no, it's all right, Jannis. Come on,
Why hi boy, We better.
Speaker 9: Go into dinner now so we can get started for
the rally.
Speaker 8: So I'm probably getting out of the call gym. You
better drive straight to the hotel to get to inspect
his call.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's eleven o'clock.
Speaker 8: Now after your call comes, Jim, why don't you pick
up Bill at his office and both of you come
back for a snack.
Speaker 1: Yes too, Oh, that'll be fine. Now. Let's see.
Speaker 4: Bill's office is on the second floor of the bank building,
isn't it. That's right.
Speaker 8: We'll expect you in about an hour.
Speaker 1: Then, yeah, maybe less.
Speaker 8: So long bye, Jim. I wonder where Bosco is he
usually meets us at the gates. Oh, he's probably down
at the freight yard. The men down there on the
meat cars are always feeding them all. They boiling terribly.
Oh where's my key?
Speaker 4: Oh? Here it is.
Speaker 8: Oh I'm glad you're here, Searn. I always dread coming
into this house alone when that moth is away?
Speaker 6: What was that? Oh?
Speaker 8: Bosco must be here. Turn on the living room light, burn,
Bosco Boso?
Speaker 4: Where are you stay?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 4: Where af both of you? What do you want?
Speaker 8: What have you been doing in my house?
Speaker 4: We just dropped in to have a look at your
picture album as Moltree picture album? Yeah, where is it?
I won't tell you, no, maybe it's gonna make you
change your mind.
Speaker 8: No, I remember you. I remember both of you. You
worked for my father on the bank instruction jobs six
years ago.
Speaker 4: You've got a good memory, Miss Moultrie, and that's just
too bad for you. Now talk where's them picture? I
won't give them to you. I we'll see give it
the arm treatment, baits. I'll keep this other name coming
all right, sister starts singing, and make it fast.
Speaker 1: We're in a hurry.
Speaker 10: Let me go.
Speaker 4: No, No, I.
Speaker 8: Won't tell let her alone.
Speaker 4: Shut up you well, miss Moultrie, are you gonna talk?
Or does baits have to break your arm?
Speaker 8: Tell them Cannis, don't let them hurt you like that?
Speaker 4: All right, let go of my arm. I'll tell you
be quick about it.
Speaker 8: Then, Albums in the chest in that closet.
Speaker 4: Okay, you know what you're after?
Speaker 8: Now you want those pictures?
Speaker 4: I took a view. Smart girl, too smart. Hey you
find the baits? Yeah, albums here? All right, hurry up.
See the pictures are in it? Well here they are there.
They're good too.
Speaker 8: Now will you take them and get out of here?
Speaker 4: We'd be pretty dumb to do that, won't we. No,
you two dames are coming with.
Speaker 3: Us, coming with you?
Speaker 4: Why? Security reasons? I've learned that the only good witness
is a dead witness.
Speaker 8: You can't get away with a thing like this.
Speaker 4: You bring the car up in front of the house.
Speaker 10: We're all going for a little ride s.
Speaker 3: Now back to the Avenger and the rendezvous with murder.
Speaker 4: Why this is the freak y'ad you brought us here.
We're gonna let y'all easy. We're sending you two dames
off on a little trip.
Speaker 6: What are you talking?
Speaker 4: You'll see pull up here, Temper, get out and open
up one of them refrigerator carse Bates, Sure, no, no, please,
this is the end of the line. Get out. What
can we do? Nothing? Get out? I said, One peep
out of either of you and it'll be your last.
Are you doing over here, Temper? These guys are packed
and ready to go. I got one of the Okay,
throw the dames in, come on inside, all right here.
I close the door and takes the lock just the
way up.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that, commands.
Speaker 8: Keep tounding, jealous. Maybe someone will hear people the prepuls out.
Speaker 4: I can't burn. My hands are getting numb. She'll keep
the circulation going. What's the use we're doing?
Speaker 10: Burn?
Speaker 4: We might as well face Jennis, don't give up. Please
go John.
Speaker 8: Janis hoc Jeous your help.
Speaker 4: Telling as well as we can.
Speaker 2: Oh, I can't.
Speaker 10: Go with reason.
Speaker 2: Room two o five is Bill's office. Bill, it's Jim
browdon bell I must have gone. I guess, well, that's
strange Bill wouldn't leave his office on the loft.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look.
Speaker 2: What's that hammering I wonder coming from below that back window. Oh,
something very interesting going on down there.
Speaker 1: I wonder if Bill could have seen that.
Speaker 4: Got it. Flashed my light around here.
Speaker 2: Before I got Bill. Somebody knocked Aim out of cold.
I don't look says, oh, this is another job for
the adventure.
Speaker 4: Holding him in the baits Huh, what's up? Uh?
Speaker 6: There's a copper pounding his beat on the other side
of the street.
Speaker 4: He had flat food. Better keep moving if he knows
what's good for shut up?
Speaker 7: Is he gone?
Speaker 4: Uh? Yeah he he's just turning the corner.
Speaker 6: Now, okay, we can get back to work, right.
Speaker 4: Uh, I'm finished at this end. How about you, baits,
Well just.
Speaker 5: A little more, kay.
Speaker 4: Did you check the wire stepper? Yeah, just like we
left him six years ago. Okay, I'm ready good.
Speaker 6: I'm crawling the vaults right inside on the left.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I know, come on yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, oh boy, what a set up. This plan
was fool proof. There's the vault, Baits, get busy, Hey, yeah,
give me some light here with you. Huh Yeah, got
a hand it to your tepper.
Speaker 5: It was a pretty sweet idea you dreamed of six
years ago.
Speaker 4: Now you're willing to admit it was worth bumping off
Moultry for huh. He sure was. You know that noise
as good as us right now?
Speaker 6: What was that?
Speaker 5: He had a funny noise?
Speaker 4: Eh, so did I. But but there can't be anybody
in here. Who's there?
Speaker 2: It's the Avenger, Tepper. I'm here to settle an old
score for Peter Moultrie.
Speaker 4: If somebody frame his temper, let's blow. Oh he's one
against the two of us. We can take care of him.
Grab that crobat, Bates. I'll flash the light around. We'll
find him. There. Did nobody here, Tepper, He's gone.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm still here, Bates, But you can't see me.
Speaker 4: The boys came from that corner. Start swinging the bait, somebody.
You can't swing your food. We got corner.
Speaker 1: I think I hit something, Tepper.
Speaker 4: Give me the light. Yeah, I don't see nothing. It's
mighty funny. I hit somebody. But there's nobody here. There nuts,
he got away, that's why. Yeah, come on, Bates, we
gotta take it on the lamp. The cop could be
here in a minute.
Speaker 1: They won't get fun. As soon as I set off
this burglar alarm, I'll start at him.
Speaker 4: Step on a temper. I'm giving her all she got.
Mister Lope ain't got wings, you know. Hey, Hey, look tepper.
Here's a car following. Eh, Hey, you're right. It must
be that Avenger guy. I told you you didn't get him.
He did. I hit him, but then daddy disappeared. I
know he scrammed, that's what he did. Hey, he's gaining
on us. Give him a dose of le bats. It's
him or us.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to hit his tires. That's to get him. Oh,
he's still coming.
Speaker 8: He's turned his.
Speaker 4: Hit to my to try again. We're going too fast, Temper.
I can't get a beat on him. As a railroad
clocking up ahead and the frate's coming. Yeah, we can
beat that break to the crossing. We can lose this guy.
It'll be close, but it's our only chance. Said tight, Hey,
what's the matter with a car, Temper, I don't know,
Drew like d a cat.
Speaker 6: You can't make a stop.
Speaker 4: Were gonna make you? Hey, what's gone to night?
Speaker 1: Right right one over here? Bring your life.
Speaker 4: If I ever saw anybody ask for what they got,
those fellows did they were?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they just broke into the bank in Glenhurst. I
saw them making it away and follow Yeah.
Speaker 4: I didn't get fun. Oh they certainly didn't say that's boss,
Come here, boss, call, come by the fright all the
way from the yards.
Speaker 1: No bust for don what's boy?
Speaker 4: I want exactly scratch from that refrigerator car?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I'm gonna have a look. What
is that buss? What's the matter? Boy?
Speaker 4: What are you trying to tell me? Somebody's in somebody's
inside that car? Break?
Speaker 2: When I heard the pounding on the door, I don't
hear anything. Open up that car. I tell you there's
someone in there.
Speaker 6: Listen, but there can't be anybody in there.
Speaker 1: That's a sealed car, sealed. Take a look at that door.
That railroad seal has been broken.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're right, okay, mister all opener.
Speaker 2: Huh Fern, JANEZ give me a hand breaking?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 2: Ye, yeah there it's all right, Fern. You're safe now here,
quick me get him out of here. They're almost frozen.
Are you sure you feel well enough to drive home today?
Speaker 8: For yes, I'm all right now, Jim, of course, I
don't feel on the mood for any winter sports yet.
Have another hot drinks, Bern, thank.
Speaker 6: You, Jens.
Speaker 8: There's just one more thing I'm not quite clear on, Jim.
Speaker 1: And what's that?
Speaker 8: Jane's why did those criminals try to get rid of Bill?
Speaker 1: I think Bill can gechistraight on that. What happened?
Speaker 4: Bill Well?
Speaker 7: I was hard at work in my office when I
heard a strange hammering sound below the back window.
Speaker 6: I looked out and saw two men down below.
Speaker 7: And when I called down to find out what was
going on, they just disappeared around the side of the building.
I decided to go down and investigate, but before I
had time to get out of the office, the two
men came in. One of them turned off the light
and covered me with a flashlight. The other one must
have worked his way around behind me and hit me
over the head.
Speaker 8: I see then when Jim came to call for you,
he discovered what was going on.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: As soon as I saw what Tapper and Bates were
up to, I went down and drained the gasoline out
of their car and then followed them into the bank.
I wanted to get a line on them, so I
listened to them talking for a while before I did anything.
Speaker 8: What did you find out, Jim Well?
Speaker 2: They were boasting about how they'd planned the robbery six
years ago. Evidently Janis's father discovered what they were doing,
so they killed him and made it look like an accident.
Speaker 8: But if you were in the bank with them, Jim,
how did they make a get away in their car?
Speaker 2: Well, that hole in the wall, that's the bank wide open.
I had to sound the alarm before I follow them. Anyway,
I knew they couldn't get far with a gas tank
that was practically empty.
Speaker 8: It really seems as though those two men had a
rendezvous with justice at that crossing, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was another soul called perfect Clime. But backfire.
Speaker 4: Well, you just trying to put it out of your
mind now, Jennets.
Speaker 8: Okay, Bill, come on, I'll put a fresh dressing on
your head. The doctor said to change every hour.
Speaker 4: Yes, Mercy, we'll be back in a minute.
Speaker 8: Take your time, Jim More doesn't have to be a
detective to figure out that we'll be coming to Glenhurst
for a wedding very soon.
Speaker 1: It certainly looks that way, Jim.
Speaker 4: Do you suppose that we could.
Speaker 1: Could uh watch furn Do you suppose.
Speaker 8: That we could could have picked up all this on
the telepathic indicator if we had stayed at home.
Speaker 3: All characters, names, places, and plots used in the Avenger
Program are fictitious. Any similarity to persons live or dead
is purely coincidental.
Speaker 4: This is a thought, a thought, a thought.
Speaker 2: Remember listen for another adventurer, The Avenger