Speaker 1: Come in Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 2: I'd like to guide you now through an adventure involving
two worlds, each of which, as they brush in passing,
leaves its indelible mark upon the other. Two worlds not
common to the experience of most of us, the world
of crime and the world of the occult and uneasy association.
You say yes that and more, much much more as
you will hear. Our mystery drama The Moneymakers was written
especially for the miss Theater by Field and Farringdon and
stars William Redfield and Briana Wrayburn. It is sponsored in
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I'll be back shortly with that one.
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Speaker 4: That Llow.
Speaker 2: Most stories are best told by eyewitness, or better still,
by participants in the events themselves. For this occasion, I
have such a participant to tell you his own story.
He is not your run of the mill narrator. However,
he is, to put it plainly, a ghost.
Speaker 1: A ghost. Yes, these one hundred years past, I have
been a ghost restricted to the pointing of a single
old house. How this came about I suppose might interest some,
but that is not the matter I wish to dwell upon.
I want to tell you instead a story of much
more recent vintage, and I believe a far greater interest
here chied, this is the house.
Speaker 2: How what will you expect? And Steve Buckingham power.
Speaker 5: Fi, I think it's it's kind of sweet.
Speaker 1: Surely thinks everything's kind of sweet. It's moldy.
Speaker 2: You open the front door, hoping falls down on your head.
Now look, I should have kicked out the place myself.
Speaker 5: It wouldn't look bad if they had some curtains on
the windows.
Speaker 2: And believe, if somebody cut the grass, Steve the wrench
dirt cheap and nobody comes snooping around, that's exactly what
we're looking for. Fellow in the village that it's haunted too.
Speaker 5: Oh, I didn't hear that. I never lived in a
haunted house.
Speaker 1: In my line.
Speaker 2: Now look, if I'm going to have to spend the
rest of the summer listening to you beef about the house.
Speaker 1: We might as well. We want the metal.
Speaker 2: He found the moldy old house with a ghost and
it's okay. You want me to back the van out
of the driveway and we call the whole thing off, okay.
Speaker 1: Now calling it old steamed up.
Speaker 2: I lived in lousy dumbs before, not haunted, but lousy.
Come on, let's get unloaded. We got a printing.
Speaker 1: Press to set up.
Speaker 5: Can I help?
Speaker 1: Right, you better just stay out of the way, aunt, Julie,
you're out of the way.
Speaker 5: Okay. Hey, what are you going to do with the
printing trips? Way out here in the country?
Speaker 1: Okay, right? Tell her?
Speaker 2: Uh, well, Steve and I have decided to go into
the printing business for ourselves.
Speaker 5: Julie, Oh that's nice way out here.
Speaker 2: Well, uh, you don't understand, Julie.
Speaker 1: You see what we're gonna do is.
Speaker 6: Well, look, mama, because I don't know anything about business
or any of that, but I think you'd want to
be like in the city.
Speaker 5: You're somewhere, I mean, what's going on way out here?
Speaker 2: Or we'll return to the city. That's why we took
this place just for the summer. I mean, we want
to set up here in the basement and practice. See,
so by say October, we'll really know what we're doing
and be ready to compete with the best in the business.
Speaker 5: Oh but so, what are you going to print? Why
are you practicing?
Speaker 1: I mean, what are we going to Well, you know
this and that.
Speaker 2: It don't matter what you print, you know, it's how
you're printed.
Speaker 1: Oh, can we get moving at.
Speaker 2: The that right, it's gonna be October before we get
the damn thing even running?
Speaker 1: Yeah right, Okay, Julie.
Speaker 2: You want to go upstairs and fix us some lunch?
I mean driving makes me.
Speaker 5: Hungry, all right, Haley cheese a rioley?
Speaker 1: Yeah sure, fine, whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I'll fix some coffee.
Speaker 2: Also, if I can find the perfects, that's great.
Speaker 1: You mean to tell me she's gonna buy a cookie?
Story like that. We're going to spend the summer practicing.
Julie believes anything I tell her.
Speaker 2: I guess anything anybody tells. Julie's okay, Steve. I mean,
she's kind of dumb, but she's okay. We shouldn't have
brought her with us, Roy, you should have left him
in the apartment in the city where she couldn't get
in no trouble. We've been all through this a dozen
times already. Somebody's gotta cook, somebody's got to clean up
the mess. Besides, she's my wife. I mean, I gotta
take her places with me that.
Speaker 1: I just got this feeling she's.
Speaker 2: Here now, Steve, Okay, can I see the plates?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I kinda might hear in a briefcase. She can't
hear her so upstairsure, I'm sure she wouldn't be listening anyhow.
Speaker 1: There's my baby. Oh hey, they look pretty good. Pretty good.
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 2: There had never been a better ten or twenty dollar
bill than what we're gonna make with these plates, except
maybe government issue.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Ernie Cochrane made these plates for Eddie Strong and.
Speaker 1: They're the best get But no heat on him or nothing. Huh.
Speaker 2: They'd been sitting in Eddie's safe deposit box for ten years.
Speaker 1: Since he used them.
Speaker 2: Eddy Wildom to me before the Morley Boys got him.
Speaker 1: Rest his soul. I didn't like Steve. He was a
nasty little man with tat his fingernails, and I didn't
like the way he pumped about Julie Roy wasn't as
bad as Steve, but I knew it was Julie with
who I must communicate. I was watching and listening while
they had money.
Speaker 6: As soon as I get these dishes washed out, unpack everything.
Speaker 5: Oh and I have to clean up this kitchen too.
Speaker 1: It's awful.
Speaker 5: I haven't looked at the bedrooms yet.
Speaker 2: Where did they get the furniture in this house? Looks
like they bought it used from the ark after the
rains about for it's all Victorian like the house the
original stopped some of it. I mean that's what the
agent said, just about right for a ghost.
Speaker 6: I guess has anybody heard or seen anything of the ghost?
Speaker 1: Oh? Come on, Julie, like you want to see the
damn thing.
Speaker 6: Well, I never saw a ghost. It would be like
a new experience for me.
Speaker 2: Look, will you just knock it off about the ghost?
I mean, what's the matter with you two?
Speaker 1: Anyway?
Speaker 2: There is no such thing as ghosts. You're just asking
for trouble living in the heart of the house.
Speaker 5: Except why did it have to be trouble? I mean, a.
Speaker 6: Ghost is just somebody, only they're dead instead of alive.
Speaker 5: You know, if I die and get to be a ghost.
Speaker 6: I'd still be me, wouldn't I.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, I'm getting as sick of that ghost as
if he was real. Come on, Steve, let's get back
to work. Sure how he wanted you to have to rent
the house with a ghost.
Speaker 1: And that's what I can't say. Ah, Julie.
Speaker 6: Roy Roy, did you call me?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, I didn't call. We're busy, Julie, I thought
I had. Well, Okay, Julie, it's not your husband. I'm
right here in the room with you.
Speaker 5: I don't see anybody.
Speaker 1: No, you can't see me. No, don't decipe me. I'm
not Hey.
Speaker 5: Are you the ghost?
Speaker 1: Yes? I am. But it's all right, Julie. I don't
mean you any harm. I thought you you're sore ghost
or some ghosts. I suppose people don't see me, they
only hear me.
Speaker 6: Oh, well, you do have a a kind of spooky voice.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have troubled you. But there is a favor.
I must ask a favor.
Speaker 5: Good, Sure, anything I can do.
Speaker 1: Thank you. First, though, I must tell you my story.
It isn't a very pretty story, but it won't take long.
Speaker 5: I'd love to hear it.
Speaker 1: I built this house a long time ago, for myself
and my wife. I wanted to write a great novel.
I felt that I could, and I had enough money
to allow me to indulge myself in this way. But
my wife, my wife was perfidious, persidious.
Speaker 5: Oh did that mean she cheated?
Speaker 1: Doesn't it? That's exactly what it means. I had a friend, well,
I thought it was my friend who published books. He
had encouraged me to try my hand at a novel,
and he spent a great deal of time with my
wife and myself here in our new home. Ostensibly they
helped me with my work, but he was making love
to my wife.
Speaker 5: Oh that's a dirty train.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I found them out eventually, of course, and
I thought about killing him, but I wasn't sought to
do it. I couldn't bring myself to Instead, they killed me.
Speaker 5: But what did you ever done to them?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: I was in their way. There was a little room
down in the basement and alcohol where they where we
kept kindling and firewood. They put my body in there
and walled up the open space with bricks. You wouldn't
know they had ever been a room there. And well,
my body's been there ever since.
Speaker 5: Oh that's terrible. How could anybody do such a thing?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, it was a terrible thing to do.
Speaker 5: And you wanna get either.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, nothing like that. Perhaps I
did for a time, but that was a long time ago.
They're both dead now, of course.
Speaker 5: Well then, oh what kind of favorite?
Speaker 1: There are rules that the dead must follow. I am
not allowed to leave this house until my mortal remains
had taken out of that sealed room and given proper
burial with a prayer. That's all, Well, we can do that.
I would be very grateful, eternally grateful. The war that
must be broken down is at the opposite end of
the basement from where your husband and his friends have
set up their printing dress. It is the only section
of brick wall. It should not be the fun if.
Speaker 6: If you would, of course, either tonight or first thing
tomorrow morning, good gracious, of course we will.
Speaker 2: Oh no, that was a steak better than the beans
and franks we'd have probably had if Julie hadn't been here,
right see, Oh why wouldn't I be here? After a
streak like that I had met at nobody? You stay forever, Julie?
Are you any more of that beery ice box? There?
Speaker 5: Yeah, most of the cakes.
Speaker 1: You want to be a roy? Yeah? Sure, why not?
Speaker 7: Hey, kitchen looks pretty respectable.
Speaker 1: Where you got it cleaned up? Julie?
Speaker 5: Yes, sweet little house.
Speaker 1: We got to get all of a TV somewhere, have Roy?
Speaker 5: Can I talk to you?
Speaker 1: Sure? Baby, But you got to believe this Roy.
Speaker 5: I was talking to the ghost of afternoon.
Speaker 1: Did the munch, Julie, come off it? Talk until?
Speaker 5: His name is noa carpenter it was anyway. He was
murdered in this house.
Speaker 6: I don't know how long ago, when it was new,
and they hid his body in an alcohol down in
the basement, and he wants us to take it out.
Speaker 5: Of there and bury it.
Speaker 2: Are you trying to tell me you found all that
out from a ghost?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: A talking ghost talks just as good.
Speaker 5: As you better if you want to know, I don't
like him.
Speaker 2: I don't like ghosts around under foot. Wait a minute, well,
are you both crazy? For Pete's sake, there is no
such thing as ghosts.
Speaker 6: Look, we have to break through a brick wall down
the basement. I know where to look, and we have
to take him out and bury him and say a prayer,
a prayer?
Speaker 5: You want to do it? Now I'll wait until morning.
Speaker 1: Roy.
Speaker 2: I want to rush this job through and get out
of here. This place gives me the creepylus. You're both
out of your skulls. We're going to go right ahead
and do everything the way we planned it. We're not
gonna rush things, and we're not gonna go looking.
Speaker 5: For dead bodies.
Speaker 1: I mean, what is the matter with you two?
Speaker 5: But I can do it myself. If you won't help me.
Speaker 1: You are to stay out of that base, Ma, Julie.
That's an order. I heard everything they said, of course,
and I was quite puzzled by my own reaction. I
wasn't sure. After a century waiting, I wasn't really sure.
I wanted to be set free, not as long as
Jewelry stayed in the house. I knew it was nonsense.
I knew it could never possibly work out. I was
a ghost, after all, and she was very, very much aligned.
But I was in love with Julie. There's an interesting
question that's been.
Speaker 2: Asked over and over, but never to my knowledge satisfactorily answered.
What portion of true love is physical and what portion spiritual?
There is nothing physical left of Noah Carpenter. Julie gives
the impression of being more than a little physical. Can
there be any sort of union between the holy spiritual
and the primarily physical. We'll look for, though I can't
guarantee to find an answer when I return shortly.
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Speaker 2: Hello, their mystery cuckoos. This is Jeane Shepherd speaking of mysteries.
As far as I'm concerned, the greatest mystery of them
all is the one that you used to see in
the old movies. You remember when you were a kid
and you'd go on a Saturday afternoon. You'd see these
movies with guys like Charlie Chan in them, and there
would always be a scene where these people are living
in a haunted house that was owned by the dead
Duchess and the dead Countess, and there was reputedly ghosts
or something terrible there. And this girl is asleep in
this bed and.
Speaker 3: The wind is blowing the curtains, and suddenly.
Speaker 1: A panel slowly opens.
Speaker 5: Up back of her bed and she's asleep.
Speaker 1: Reeping claw comes out reaching for her. Follow Call great Scott.
Speaker 2: You'll hear the rest of the story tonight at nine
fifteen on the Gean Shepherd Show Monday through Friday.
Speaker 1: Of course, the creeping claw will get you. It will
get you if you don't watch out.
Speaker 7: He is Ralph Flinger, better honors, mister Ryan. Know where
they are?
Speaker 1: Ralph?
Speaker 7: Whatever became of Edwin Laudie, the inventor of the Bridgeland?
Speaker 1: Ah, yeah, so he's well up in his nineties now,
but he still works every day taking chain link fences apart.
A listener would like to know whatever became of a.
Speaker 7: Young daredevil named Warner Bromley who flew his zeppelin upside down. Yes,
he once tried to fly a zeppelin upside down through
the framework.
Speaker 1: Of the Eiffel Tower. What's he doing now? He inflates
with the balloons for the government. All right, mister y,
and know where they are?
Speaker 7: How about Stuffy Houdson, Calvin Hoogean, Jimmy Schwab, Fred Falvey
and very backstage.
Speaker 1: Oh they're all to be found on the pages of
the new Bob and Ray book. Right if you get Work,
along with Wally Blue, Tippy the Wonder Dog, and many
more fascinating characters. That's right, if you get Work, the
best of Bob and Ray at your bookstore now. Incidentally,
Edwin Loudy claimed he invented the bridge lamp, but he didn't.
Speaker 7: Well, he's in his nineties now. I don't see any
point in reopening that controversy.
Speaker 1: Right if you get Worked. A new book by Bob
and Ray is available now at book and department stores,
published by Random House. Some very strange things are.
Speaker 2: Happening in the old house which Noah Carpenter has been haunting.
Speaker 1: These past one hundred years.
Speaker 2: You'd think just the haunting would be sufficiently out of
the ordinary, wouldn't you. But now a printing press has
been installed in the basement of the house, and Roy
and Steve plan to use it to print a great
deal of counterfeit money. And as if even that weren't enough,
Noah ghost has fallen in.
Speaker 1: Love with Roy's wife Julie.
Speaker 2: All very involved and seemingly unresolvable. Okay, okay, it's enough,
no waste the pay, But it's just a test run time. Hey.
Speaker 1: Hey, the tens look pretty good, Steve. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the twenties too, pretty dark good.
Speaker 1: You better believe it. I mean, like real, you know,
I take him any.
Speaker 2: Day, except they all got the same serial number. Anybody
had take him. You know, I bet you could run
these things to a bank one other time. He gives
me a kind of a creepy feeling, you know, making
my own money.
Speaker 1: You get used to it.
Speaker 2: Well, we're gonna do with it, you know, after we
get it printed. I told you already, I got to fixed
up with Sam Brophy, you know what. I'm Sam, No,
the handler they call him. Hey, gets your stuff into circulation.
Speaker 1: Give it how I mean, how does he do it? Well,
that says the as I'm not about to ask him.
Speaker 2: Give it how much? Well, I never asked you how
much his take is? We get twenty percent? We get
twenty percent, that's right. We give him a quarter of
a million queer ones, and he gives us fifty thousand
straight ones, fifty.
Speaker 1: Thousand out of a quarter of a million.
Speaker 2: It's a real good deal. Yeah, but I fig couldn't
we do it ourselves, you know, pocket the whole two
hundred and fifty grand.
Speaker 1: I get it. Why for one thing? I got to
deal with Sam.
Speaker 2: Besides, he's get the contacts, and we ain't we try
something like that, we're both gonna end up doing a stretch.
Oh man, you make a quarter of a million bucks,
you end up with only fifty thousand. It seems kind
of lopsided to me. And we split it so it
comes to twenty five grand apiece.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean.
Speaker 2: So when was the last time you were twenty five
thousand dollars spending money?
Speaker 4: I never did, Julie, Julie?
Speaker 1: Is it snower? Julie crying out a lot?
Speaker 5: How long have you been in here watching me?
Speaker 1: I just got here. I've been down in the basement.
Speaker 6: Well you shouldn't sneak up on a girl and she's
got her hair tied up in an old rag and
wearing these awful old slacks.
Speaker 1: You look beautiful, Julie, very beautiful.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you.
Speaker 6: I'm just trying to clean this living on a little.
Speaker 1: Oh it's been quite a while since the place was cleaned.
Speaker 5: You know something, it's not fair?
Speaker 1: What isn't fair?
Speaker 6: Because you can see me in a mess like this,
it's all dressed up of goodness only.
Speaker 5: Knows how else but you. I've got no idea. Oh
what you look like?
Speaker 1: I don't look like anything. The reason you can't see
me is that there's nothing to see, just nothing. I
can't explain it to you. I'm not permitted to huh uh, Julie,
May I ask you a very personal question you can
ask do you love your husband?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: That's some question. I I mean, I uh, I'm married
to 'em.
Speaker 1: My not Oh that's not what I asked, is it?
Speaker 5: Oh? L Maybe I don't know the answer.
Speaker 6: I'm married to 'em and I didn't push me around
or anything.
Speaker 5: What do you care? I mean, what visit it in yours?
Speaker 1: If I were something besides what I am, well, I
think i'd have to say I'm in love with you.
Oh God, However, it's quite absurd. We won't talk about
it anymore. Actually, I was wondering how badly you'd be
hurt if you knew well or perhaps you do know,
no what what Roy and Steve are doing down in
the basement. They're going to print counterfeit money. Julie two
hundred fifty thousand dollars in counterfeit tens and twenties.
Speaker 5: That's against the law. Roy's not a criminal.
Speaker 1: He is now, he will be very soon.
Speaker 5: What am I supposed to do?
Speaker 2: Leave?
Speaker 1: Get out of this house and away from this whole business.
You mustn't get involved. Oh, you're a fine person, too
good to go to prison or something. You had no
part in, Printon.
Speaker 5: Why should I go to print?
Speaker 1: You're an accomplished jury. You've helped them disassociate yourself in
those two I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't think I could just pack up and leave,
not without talking to Roy first.
Speaker 1: At least, I'm afraid that would be a very dangerous
thing to do.
Speaker 5: You can't think why? Well what things?
Speaker 1: I don't know about Roy, but I'm quite sure that
Steve is potentially a violent man.
Speaker 2: Think got gonna hit the Hey, it's only ten o'clock, Steve.
Speaker 1: We've got a big day tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Roy wouldn't hurt if you've got a good night's sleep yourself.
Speaker 6: Well, Roy, could I talk to you for a few
minutes before you go up to ben?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, sure, if we got a problem or something
here and I don't have to go right this minute.
Speaker 5: Look, it's princonal Steve. Between me and ruin.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, I'll see in the morning I had won
the buddet to nobody's private business.
Speaker 6: How come you and Steve got such a great big
day tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, Julie, the more practice we get in,
the better we're gonna be when we open up our
own place next four were.
Speaker 6: You've been to print part time at least everythince you
were kid boy, how come you have to practice.
Speaker 5: All of a sudden.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, you see, you go in business for yourself.
Speaker 2: It ain't the same, Julie. You gotta be good at
all kinds of work. I mean, you just wouldn't believe
some of the stuff people want printed.
Speaker 1: Money, What are you talking about?
Speaker 6: It's like phony ten and twenty dollars bills two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars leap.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Where'd you get an idea like that?
Speaker 5: It doesn't matter where I got it? Is it true?
Speaker 2: Have you been snooping around down there in a cellar?
You've been listening to me and Steve talking, So it's true.
I didn't say that. I said where'd you get hold
of such a crazy idea?
Speaker 1: In the first place?
Speaker 5: Where I got the idea is my business.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna tell you, Julie, I.
Speaker 5: That hurts.
Speaker 2: Look at a sample. See just a sample next time.
I don't just slap you.
Speaker 1: Now. Where did you hear all this crazy stuff?
Speaker 5: Noah told me? Noah, Noah Compenter the ghost.
Speaker 1: Look, I wasn't kidding, Julie. The next one is gonna.
Speaker 5: Be a wheel once more. And I'm out of this
place like a shot.
Speaker 1: Steve was right. We never should have brought you out here. Steve. Uh, hey,
was that you said my name right? It wasn't Roy.
My name is no Coppenter. I'm the the ghost. You're
the they come. I cut it out? But why stop
getting around with you? It isn't Roy. Does my voice
sound like Rory? Right?
Speaker 5: Why out?
Speaker 1: That isn't going to do you any good? How do
you think Roy can help you? Yo? Steve, what's the
matter with you? The ghost he's here, he's right in.
Speaker 5: Here with us.
Speaker 1: Fault, Holy Toledo. Not the ghost again. See he's here.
I tell you, gotta believe me.
Speaker 2: He was talking just like people with you imagined that. Steve,
I didn't he was.
Speaker 1: He's here.
Speaker 5: He's here right now.
Speaker 1: It's in sleep. Well you you're all keyed up. Hey,
you won't leave it?
Speaker 5: Are You're?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't want to be left alone with that that thing.
I gotta get back to Julie.
Speaker 2: She's I'm, I'm I'm having a little trouble with Julie.
Speaker 1: You're gonna leave me here along, Steve, You'll be okay.
I told you there wasn't anything he could do for you. Steve,
all right, what do you want from me? You're right?
I do want something from you. Tell me and get
it off with will you? I want you to take
those plates and go leave this house. I don't know
nothing about no place but tens and twenty. Steve, the
one it is strong? Will deal before the morning boys
got him? Isn't that what you say? What's the TA
when you have? Why should I go care about what
people though? Since I do care, it isn't important? Why
is it okay? What if I just said you're to
go to places, I'll see to it that you're apprehended
and brought to justice, both you and Roid. Now, how
are you gonna do that? You ain't nothing but a
go I've told Julie about the counterfeiting. I expect her
to help me.
Speaker 2: Julie ain't gonna blow the whistle on me and.
Speaker 1: Roy, he's her husband. I don't think Julie wants anything
to do with that kind of money. What'd you say
she does? Though? What could you do?
Speaker 2: Fall in the village was talking about? You said you
couldn't leave the house, You're stuck in here.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is true.
Speaker 2: So there ain't a dark thing you can do if
Julie don't blow the whistle.
Speaker 1: I'm depending on Julie.
Speaker 2: That ghost told her about the flakes and off. Is
that what you were fighting about last night?
Speaker 1: Ghost? Ghost?
Speaker 2: Ghosts? All I hear is ghosts. There ain't no such thing, Steve.
Speaker 1: You think not? Look, Steve, she knows what we're doing.
What do you think told her?
Speaker 2: You think I told her that blowsy ghost told her
that's a well?
Speaker 1: Whoever she knows? Is she gonna blow the whistle? I
don't know. I don't believe she would.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: I'm her husband, Steve. It's happened before. I think we
better make plans. You mean, packed the stuff back in
the van and forget the whole deal. And I got
a better idea, what idea? There ain't a thing that
ghosts can do to us?
Speaker 1: Without Julie's help. He admitted that last night, Steve, I
got enough trouble without ghosts. What kind of a plan
have you got her? That ghost is real, you'll have
to take my word for it.
Speaker 2: But without Julie, he can't do a thing to us,
that one darn thing. So what's the plan, Steve. We
get a hole somewhere down here in the cellar with
one body already in it?
Speaker 1: Why I make it too.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to waste Julie. Counterfeiting is a crime
against the financial structure of the society in which it
is committed, deplorable, of course.
Speaker 1: But murder.
Speaker 2: Murder is a crime against God and against the very
nature of civilization, an evil, evil thing. A man has
just been asked to collaborate in the murder of his
own wife, not in a passionate frenzy, but in cold blood.
We haven't heard his answer yet, but we shall when
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Speaker 2: Our two worlds, the world of crime and the world
of the occult, have confronted each other and are joined
in a bitter struggle. Right and wrong are clearly defined,
and if you believe that right always triumphs, there is
no cause for concern over the outcome. But history doesn't
seem to prove beyond reasonable doubt that right, as we
understand it does always triumph in the end. The truth
is the most worthy of all. Are often the law
lost causes Julie, Julie in there?
Speaker 5: Ah way, woy?
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you, Julie unlessing. Look, I
have to talk to you, Julie now, please, it's important.
Speaker 5: If you were coming in anyway, why did you bother
to not?
Speaker 1: Julie, listen about last night?
Speaker 5: About you slapping me? Do you want to talk about that?
Speaker 1: Oh? Noo? About the counterfeiting?
Speaker 5: You admit that's what you're doing down there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's what we're doing.
Speaker 2: The thing is, honey, I never could get any money
ahead never, you know, I mean it, not not even
enough to let us feel comfortable.
Speaker 6: So you decided to make your own You think just
because you couldn't earn all the money you wanted that
makes it all right.
Speaker 2: Look, God sick of being broke, and we're not hurting anybody, Julie,
we're not stealing from anybody. Well, we're doing is just
putting some fresh money in circulation.
Speaker 5: Then why is there a law that says you have
to go to jayop Donia? Boy?
Speaker 6: How much have you made already? I mean, how many
of the things have you run off?
Speaker 1: Few samples? We haven't even really started.
Speaker 6: Okay, if you want to burn up that stuff you've
already made and promise not to make anymore. If you
just shut down the hall operation, we move out of
this place.
Speaker 5: Okay, I won't leave.
Speaker 1: You leave me.
Speaker 6: He's surprised you would make your counterfeitn Can you slap
my faithless night?
Speaker 5: And you're surprised when I think about walking.
Speaker 2: Out, I never thought i'd hear you talk like this, Julie. I, well, I.
Speaker 6: Just the world.
Speaker 5: It's full of little surprises. I never thought i'd be
married to a criminal. Look, I can't pull out, now,
Sure you can? Are you scared of Steve?
Speaker 2: Oh he's a He's dumped a lot of money into
this thing, Julie. He's made commitments, and he trusted men.
Speaker 5: Bother she wouldn't trust his own mother.
Speaker 2: Look, if if I don't pull out, of this job.
Would you go to the police or something like that,
I mean, would you turn us in?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I think probably I would. You don't
mean that, I think most likely I would.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard all that. Of course, I was struggling
with my conscience. For ghosts to have consciences, conscience was
a thoroughly spiritual thing. I had more to gain selfishly
by keeping my hands off than by interfering. I followed
Ray down to the basement where Steve was waiting for him. Okay,
you had your talk with Julie. What she said?
Speaker 2: Well, she she still wants us to knock it off, Steve,
Like she says, just load the press back on the
van and drive away on foot.
Speaker 1: Listen, you can see how she feels. She gets hit
with this thing right out of the blue.
Speaker 2: What do I care how she feels. We're all set
up here, not at a line. We'll go ahead with it.
Speaker 1: We can't she'll do.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm getting scared she'll turn us in, so I
will have to do it my way.
Speaker 1: I guess we're gonna have to waste Julie. No, no, no,
you can't do that. Steve. You want to bet Hey,
you don't have to pull a gun on me. You
better get used to it. Roy.
Speaker 2: I give you a chance to go along like a
nice guy, and you blew it. Now you do things
my way or you get your head blown off. Plays
are gonna be lousy with ghosts.
Speaker 1: Julie, isn't that you know?
Speaker 4: Ye?
Speaker 6: Boy even knocks before it comes into a lady's room.
Speaker 1: He has nothing. Oh, Julie, there's no choice, and you
must leave this plane.
Speaker 5: Well, I've been thinking about it.
Speaker 1: There's no more time for thinking. They're planning to kill you,
kill me.
Speaker 5: Oh, come on, boy, wouldn't do a thing like that.
Speaker 1: Steve would.
Speaker 5: Roy wouldn't let him.
Speaker 1: Roy can't stop him. You'll have to go right away.
They aren't going to give you much time.
Speaker 5: No, are you just trying to get me away from
Roy again? You know what it is?
Speaker 1: What Steve wants to do is break down that wall
and hind your body in the same room with mine.
Macab Yes, my car. But do you know what it
would mean. It would mean that you and I, our
spiritual selves, would be imprisoned in this house together for
all eternity, unless someone found our bodies. No, that wouldn't
be bad for me. I'd be much happier having you
with me, but I don't want it to happen to you.
You must understand I am not selfishly motivated. When I
beg you to go.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry. You know you really then? I know before
I could have been a little more like you.
Speaker 1: Wick, Will you leave now? To leave?
Speaker 5: So I'm not afraid of those two. I haven't decided yet.
Speaker 2: Put come back into what Roy? You watch like you
don't enjoy this kind of work. You holding a gun
on me, making me break into a room where you
want to hide my wife's body after.
Speaker 1: You've killed her. You're right, I don't enjoy it.
Speaker 2: Well do it anyway you don't get to work. I'm
gonna have an extra body to stuff in there. Now
say all that takes is a little elbow gree Okay, Now,
widen the hole, work the bricks loose around it. See
if I U I think I'm gonna be sick because
there's some bones in there, skeleton. Let's figures, don't the
ghost said he was in there. Well we're gonna take
the thing out and bury it.
Speaker 1: Oh you gotta be kidding. That's what Julie said.
Speaker 2: We should do what we broke the wall down for
Roy was to put one in, not take one out.
Speaker 1: Steve, Please, I can handle Julie.
Speaker 2: We'll go ahead just like we planned, and Julie won't
make any more trouble.
Speaker 5: I give you my.
Speaker 2: Word, you won't make no trouble. That's one thing you're
dead right about.
Speaker 1: Why not that hole, Steve? If you kill Julie, I.
Speaker 2: Don't care if it takes the rest of my life,
the rest of your life thinking her mouth, how much
if you don't shut up? All right, we're going upstairs now.
Now you walk just a little ahead of me, and
don't get funny. Just keep on thinking about this gun
and remembering how I wouldn't mind using it.
Speaker 5: Noah, are you still here?
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm here, Juliane.
Speaker 5: I decided to take your advice. I'm gonna leave just
as soon as I can get back.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid it's too late, Julie. They're coming for you
right now, coming to Stephen Roy. Steve is forcing Roy
at gun point. He has no choice.
Speaker 5: What shall I do?
Speaker 1: Take the phone off and put it down on the table.
Speaker 5: They coming right now.
Speaker 1: I tell you the only way I can help you, Julie.
I can't manipulate material objects. I can't pick up the
phone or down it. I can't interfere physically, no matter
what Steve does to you. Please just lift the phone
off and dial zero. Please, Julia, Julie.
Speaker 2: If he's got a gun, there wasn't anything I could do.
Come on downstairs, Julie.
Speaker 5: I'm going nowhere with either of you.
Speaker 2: Okay, take it down right, Come on, Julie. Please, we
gotta do what he says.
Speaker 5: I don't have to get your hands up money.
Speaker 1: He just wants you to come downstairs. I mean, that's
all he wants. Wouldn't hurt a fly you held up? Operator?
Please send the police of the old carp from the
place out on Beechwood Road. It's an emergency. There's going
to be a murder right at the back of the cellar.
Show where he's going to kill me, Isn't he wrong?
Speaker 2: I tried to stop him, Julie, but he made Okay, okay,
right over there, I see that holes lit cloesy in there.
Speaker 1: Get a skeleton and everything.
Speaker 5: You found.
Speaker 2: No offer somebody anyway, what used to be somebody?
Speaker 6: Listen, we have to take him out and bury him
and say a prayer. You can do whatever you want
into that.
Speaker 1: But we have to do that hole. Crawl on through there, Julie,
a hundred years.
Speaker 5: He's been in there, nothing but bone.
Speaker 1: Get on inside.
Speaker 5: I will not.
Speaker 1: I didn't ask you. I called you, not do it.
Speaker 5: So you can shoot me in there instead about here.
You want me in there, you put me in there.
Speaker 2: If that's the way you want it, don't do it.
Speaker 1: Steve, who said that? Noah, that damn coat again? Not damned, Steve,
confined to this house until my bones are properly buried,
but not damned. You're the one who has that to
look forward to. I don't need to allows his sirm.
You have any idea what the punishment is for murder
and life if they catch it? So I don't mean
world live punishment. I mean the final judgment and punishment,
and you'll be caught. Steve. There is no place to hide.
Speaker 2: Even give me the fire and brimstone routine. Now I
heard that since I was a kid.
Speaker 1: Fire and brimstone for some, but for a greedy one
like you, something more imaginative. I should think, for example, poverty,
never enough eat, never enough clothing, The cover you decently,
I'll keep you warm. Never the hope even that things
will get better that the way I heard it when
I was againd loneliness. Never anyone who'll even put ten
your friend as Roy has done here, and eternity of
loneliness and want you'll know yourself is utterly despicable. You'll
end it those, even the other damned souls who don't
have to live with you. You'll despise yourself that much.
Speaker 2: Now wait, gentlemen, a million lifetimes of regrets, a million
lifetimes to remember the moment you put enough pressure on
that trigger to cause the gun the fire.
Speaker 1: You'll have all eternity in which to wish you hadn't
done that. Now, look, I ain't done it yet. You
have only this moment to make the decision. Make it
the wrong way, and you'll spend all eternity wishing you hadn't.
Either squeeze the trigger now steam or hand the gun
to Julian. Spare yourself eternal damn nation.
Speaker 2: And I guy, I still got the plates. I can
die here, Take it open.
Speaker 1: Thing, take the garden, Julian.
Speaker 2: Don't think you scared me any though it's a hairy situation.
It's all I don't have to be told when a
situation gets.
Speaker 1: Too hairy to handle. Hey, what's up?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: Well, it's not like don't that sound like a siren?
Speaker 2: Somebody thinks I'm getting out of here and you'll come
it right?
Speaker 1: No, what din I do with them? Go? They'll catch you?
Speaker 6: Be right.
Speaker 1: Look, honey, we gotta get out of here.
Speaker 5: You go ahead. I'm not leaving yet, Julie.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. They'll okay, I'm going.
Speaker 5: No, it paved my life.
Speaker 1: I wonder if all those things I said don't too.
I don't really know.
Speaker 5: You could have let him kill me. We'd have been together.
I don't think out of mind it too much.
Speaker 1: I couldn't let the same thing happen to you that's
happened to me.
Speaker 6: Well, i'll see to it. They, you know, bury you.
I'll ask him to let me say the prayer.
Speaker 1: Yes, i'd like them. Do we have to say goodbye, Julie? Goodbye?
They did take my body out of the old house,
and I think they must have buried it because I feel,
I somehow feel that I am about to move on.
I shall miss Julie, miss her very deeply. Still. The
mortal span is short. Another fifty years, another sixty years
will meet again, Julie can die.
Speaker 2: It's heartening to feel that there are such emotions as love, hope,
and compassion in the next life. And I found it
comforting too that Noah seemed as human as he did,
not a moaning, chain, latling, terrifying specter. But as Julie
herself said, just somebody who was no longer alive. I'll
be back in the flesh in just a moment. Steve
and Roy were both apprehended. They were tried, convicted, and
are serving relatively short terms. Julie has gone her own
way and is doing well.
Speaker 1: She often thinks of Noah.
Speaker 2: As for Noah, I don't have a follow up on him,
but there must be rewards as well as.
Speaker 1: Punishments, so I'm not worried.
Speaker 2: I'm sure I needn't worry either about having you in
the audience for our next mysterious Tale. Our cast included
Ralph Bell, Briner Raeburn, William Redfield, and Jack Grimes. The
entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown Radio.
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division.
This is V. G. Marshall inviting you to return to
our Mystery Theater for another adventure in the MCCA