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and I say so you could still be wrong oh look it's been a year now one year this month since we went on the case you've gone into every angle we know Lamar's past like a book the records fill two file drawers down at the Bureau and everything we've got says it's suicide I want to forget it because I knew Eddie Lamar better than all of you and I know he wasn't a kind of a guy who bumped himself off that's why only you know about the inside of his mind we got a million cases just like it guy comes home happy kisses his wife not a care in her world bingo puts himself away not Eddie you're off the beam sergeant I'm sorry Clint we're closing the case for keeps this time there's nothing more we can do ever made a mistake sergeant not very many check the record this department is a pretty high batten average Clint hasn't been a single and solve murder on the books for the past 18 months oh come on sergeant you're not trying to tell me the break the record so learn black and white well I better get going do at the desk in 20 minutes I'm sorry Garvey you're a smart boy in your own line but you better let's make the decision when it comes to murder it's our business so long so long the poor dog boons I'd give to tell them off if they were only a way you could tell them off show them what blundering saps they are it was a perfect crime wasn't it so perfect that for the past year you've had a wonderful time playing with them watching them stumble goading them on almost daring them to discover how Eddie Lamar really died yes Clint it was a new kind of sport full of thrills and danger but you knew you were safe because it was so perfect no loopholes no loose end you thought of that when you killed him how you'd love to tell the public the real story of Eddie Lamar and then lean back and laugh with the rest of them while chief Bradshaw and his clowns crawled into their holes but that's the trouble with a perfect crime isn't it you can't tell anybody you've just got to sit back and smile and boil a little inside and then one Saturday night on the highway north of San Diego your lights pick up a hitchhiker at the edge of the road where to buddy stick them up wait a minute pal you don't know what I said stick them up out of the car he took everything your watch your ring all your money except that hundred dollar bill you always carry in your right shoe left you on foot 10 miles from Chalmers Cove the nearest town nothing to do but wait for morning in a haystack near the highway you were boiling mad weren't you Clint didn't feel much like talking when that breezy truck driver picked you up the next morning I'm always glad to give a guy a lift against company rules of course but well you know it gets down long some pushing one of these six-wheelers all day I was managed to find a rider nights to that's when you need a guy to talk to here keeps you from dropping off like that guy did last night and what guy I just heard about a back at the station guy must have fell asleep at the wheel drove off a graded curve yeah killed him dead car burned his fingers some guy from Frisco mentioned his name yeah coffee made a note in my mind without thinking coffee that's gravy spelled backwards see hold it I think I'll go on to San Diego change my mind you can let me off here at Chalmers Cove room for me yeah I think so I can give you 29 that'll be four dollars with that'll do my name's Lawrence find the register please give me one of those newspapers we're here you are the need will be in to make up the room right away to skip it for a couple hours I want to be alone beyond recognition but police confirmed identification of Garvey through articles of jewelry discovered in the wreckage car 39 Buick coupe was purchased by the victim in San Francisco as a male run around here I mean tomorrow being a holiday it'll be picked up Tuesday morning at 9 when was the last pick up on Saturday let me see was it 5 yeah yeah that's right 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon I see your mind's going a mile a minute isn't it Clint a whole year of talking to yourself of chuckling in private at the stupidity of Bradshaw and his homicide detail now it's laid right in your lap you think it through carefully alone in your room they can't execute a dead man and as far as their records go you were killed Saturday night a confession letter would knock the props out from under Bradshaw wouldn't it a letter from a dead man telling the citizens what a bunch of clowns they've got in the police department a letter mailed to Jerry Slade of the San Francisco Time Star Bradshaw's number one enemy big important work oh yes where'd you say the mailboxes there's one down the road to the next corner right by the single oil station thanks you can leave it here at the desk no I want to put this one in the box myself kind of important my name is long checking out checking out this Tuesday I changed my mind I think I'll hang around a while longer change your mind huh yes any idea how long that's how it all depends on the three hundred years he spent as a prisoner of the gas it's the greatest day of all in the life of a late night from San Diego better turn it off police reveal a new developer in San Diego late Saturday night when Mr. Lawrence what a box of males picked up at nine a box they wasn't that guy I bet he's changed his mind again you describe how an olive taste to a friend who's never eaten one be pretty tough job wouldn't it because an olive is so different from any other food and that's the same fix I'm in when I try to describe new signal gasoline this great new super fuel is so superior you really have to try it to believe a gasoline can make such a difference in driving but I can promise you this with your very first tank full of new signal gasoline you'll see the difference yes and feel it and hear it too here's what I mean with new signal gasoline in your car when you touch the starter you feel your motor spring instantly to life when you step on the accelerator you see your car step ahead with pickup that makes you proud and even when your motor is working hard uphill you hear it per contentedly proof of signals higher anti-knock what's more because you'll be shifting less and shifting waste gasoline you know you'll enjoy more high gear miles actually go farther than ever with new signal gasoline no wonder there's been such a swing to signal no wonder so many folks are saying I didn't realize how much pleasure driving could be till I tried new signal gasoline and now back to the whistler Clint the shoes on the other foot now isn't it the laugh won't be as loud or as long as you'd hoped if that letter ever reaches San Francisco yes if it gets there you're a dead duck and you know it as you race pelmel down the side street in chalmers cold put the mailbox you dropped it in last night five past nine the pickup scheduled for nine o'clock maybe the truck will be late you keep telling yourself yes it's pulled up at the box as you turn the corner hey hey wait a minute listen listen this letter I made last night yeah I don't want a mail that I changed my mind I gotta get it back word you mail this box right here last night can't get back against department regulations once she's in the box she's our baby we make delivery better take it up with the postmaster listen nobody'll know about it or you got it sorry but I tell you I gotta get it I can't keep your keys here okay check the box first I don't have to let her with you on all overseas pardon me chief there's something I want to wait your turn will you pal was that lady let only take a second I just said wait your turn now lady bond package but you can't send the package that size without a written request it's for my yeah take your time will you look lady who'd you give the nuts to hear the counter last time over there him or hey Kelly hey he's on the phone wait a minute he'd be through what's the matter at this woman here wants to send a package overseas says you took one from her every week you have to request at home she says oh yeah she's okay go ahead okay okay lady you'll be 27 cents next time I bring the ladder right now what can I do for you pal listen I sent an airmail later this morning from Chalmers Cove to San Francisco what plane will be on what time do you mail it was picked up at nine maybe a little before and beyond flight six out of Burbank leaves at noon thanks thanks a lot oh what do you know about that I had a mail robbery down the line this morning yeah where Chalmers Cove Chalmers Cove hey wait a minute where did that guy go to oh what's the matter take the window Kelly I got a phone call to make never no clock Clint one hour to make that plane and you haven't a chance without a reservation unless yes you walk into a phone booth in a drug store airlines this is the Army priority board civilian passenger for San Francisco will arrive at the airport in a half hour JG Eastlake yeah give me two priority on flight six at noon right thank you these report to reservation this flight eight to be all right I'm sorry I get checked at 42 pounds priority three pardon me clerk just a moment there'll be right with you that's flight 10 to San Francisco change for the Reno plane at midnight tonight there you are what can I do I want to leave on flight six to San Francisco I see your name my name is give me just a minute your miss Greg yes I'm Reynolds oh yes how do you do as he checked in yet no he called here about half hour ago naturally we confirm all calls from the priority board by calling back they've never heard of him I see I'll be in the lobby here all you have to do is give me the eye right thanks Mr Reynolds what was that name again name is Vickers Howard Vickers you say you're on flight six I'm trying to make it I I don't have a priority oh I see well there may be a cancellation of course will you wait here in the lobby take off in 15 minutes yes I'll wait you'll have a pretty fair chance as it happens we're running two sections on flight six two sections yes that's a break for you isn't it yeah quite a break two sections clean both of them carrying mail you can see the trucks out there on the strip now loading it on both planes even if you make it now you've only got a 5050 chance the first plane takes off at noon finally at nine minutes past 12 Mr Howard Vickers please report to reservation desk we have your reservation on flight six second section Mr Vickers please if you knew how to pray Clint you'd be praying now praying with the letter that means life or death to you is in one of the sacks you saw them load into the tail compartment of the plane you're writing on yes and that you can follow it from the airport in San Francisco tail the postman who takes it to the office of the time star but if it's on the first plane Clint if it's delivered before you arrive you're just as dead as if you'd stayed in Chalmers Cove and waited for them to come and get you you need a break Clint a good healthy break then it has passed one fastened safety belts please there's nothing to worry about fastened safety belts fastened safety belts please we're going to land there's absolutely no danger we've simply run into a storm and we're landing until it blows over where are we we just passed over the Salinas it may be necessary to spend the night here a company limousine will pick you up and take you to a hotel just relax we're landing now yes sir what about the first section up ahead I couldn't say sir they may be through the storm they'll arrive in San Francisco before we do maybe I don't know I'll try to find out for you later shoulder down to your right this way please what's the matter sir I don't know it better come along sir I don't feel well it was a pretty bumpy landing you'll feel better when you get your feet on the ground everybody gone yes good what are you never mind just do what I tell you you'll be okay get out the keys but I don't you haven't got them they're in your shoulder bag all right that's it all right now open up that tail compartment I have no right sister I'd hate to drill you I don't want to play game scene I'll get back there and open it up all right there you are packages but what did you expect where's the mail letters there isn't any it's all expressed don't hand me that there's got to be letters there are on the other plane give me those keys I'll get in that compartment hurry up you're pretty panicky aren't you Clint there's no way out of it now for once you don't know what to do and just as you're about ready to give up if I can make that train it's a quarter mile along the edge of the field of the tracks the car is pulled up on the highway at the grade crossing that's a better idea isn't it clear the car hey hey you hey never mind that get out what you're talking about blow your head off hurry up oh yeah sure I didn't see that yeah Mr. I'm going the other planes delayed must have been it's a big storm covers all the central California coast you hit Watson Villa dusk take a chance on the shortcut to Los Gatos you're almost there when bridge washed out I gotta turn back back to the junction opto so Cal Santa Cruz Ben Lohman sorry bud there's a slide on the pass up ahead there'll be a two-hour wait at least 10 o'clock now it'll be midnight before you get across the mountains you can't take of anything but that other plane if it were delayed long enough the delivery would be hell over until morning that's the one you're counting on isn't it Clint then finally at four in the morning you're there you leave the car on 3rd Street and take a taxi the rest of the way to the time star building on Mission Street there's a one-armed coffee joint across the way where you can tell us all some information yes about flight six what's your destination incoming flight six yesterday from Los Angeles what did you want to know sir did it arrive here well flight six from Los Angeles yesterday was in yes I know it was in two sections one was grounded north of Salinas I want to know about the other one the first one just a moment please there have to be a reason I'm sorry sir I'm falling from the San Francisco time star there's a very important airmail later aboard the first section of flight six address to my office and I want to know whether it'll arrive this morning does that satisfy you three miles of pacing up a down Montgomery Street over the county up market to 7th and back again five cups of coffee you're going on your nerve Clint your hands are shaking so you can hardly light a cigarette then at five minutes of eight a mail truck drives up to the rear entrance of the time star building and you're ready for it waiting on the platform hello there is that our mail this is for the time star if that's what you mean great everything here it's all that's all I'll take it up save you a trap well thanks a lot better take her by the cord here okay heavier than it looks I see you later so long you'll be taking that mail bag into a phone booth for Mr. Garvey we from the other yet how to use it to I'm Reynolds FBI so yesterday at the Los Angeles Airport right what's the gimmick charges well let me see there are two assault charges to mail robbery counts a car theft and defrauding an endkeeper you didn't pay your bill at the Charmers Cove Hotel you know of course I'm mainly interested in this mail business just like you are you're going to tell me why you seem to know a lot of answers suppose you tell me you knew one answer you weren't supposed to know Garvey you were the only citizen in San Francisco outside the Pacific Airlines organization who knew the second flight of flight six was grounded at Salinas yesterday you know it doesn't take much fooling with mail bags to get a lot of publicity we checked you from that affair you pulled yesterday at Charmers Cove right through to the call you made of the airline a little while ago I was down there when it came in now suppose you just walk along far enough in front of me to keep things friendly we'll take care of the mail whistler will return with a strange ending to tonight's story in just a moment meantime a word about two important items that have been making news recently one the atom and two new signal gasoline no I'm not going to tell you there's atomic power in new signal gasoline but recent developments in atoms actually did make possible this great new motor fuel and I'll tell you what I mean you see science has long known that gasoline is composed of molecules and each molecule is an arrangement of atoms the way those atoms are arranged determines just how much power you get from the gasoline in old-style gasoline's the molecules were left just as nature made them but recently certain chemists found out how to take gasoline molecules apart then rearrange the atoms an entirely new way the result is new signal the new gasoline you can prove is superior not just a pre-war quality motor fuel not just old style gasoline improved but an entirely new type super fuel with performance so immediately apparent you feel it see it hear it yes with new signal in your tank you actually feel your car get young again and the easy way to prove it just drive into one of the friendly stations displaying signals familiar yellow and black circle sign and say fill her up with new signal gasoline now back to the quistler well Clint you have a lot of time to think it over in your cell at the city jail during the next week it was bad enough to be picked up just as you got to the payoff with a letter practically in your hand worse than that is the fact that you were outsmarted that you're going to be on the receiving end of that horse lap as you call it that's why your puzzle is the days go by and there's no mention of the letter nothing of Eddie Lamar and the murder that used to be perfect then ten days afterwards Reynolds walked into your cell block slow service why you've been holding it we haven't been wasn't in the sack Clint where was it back at Chalmers Cove hotel little behind the Times Clint the airmail rate is eight cents not the whistler will bring you another strange tale the curious story of the house on Sycamore Road the whistler is broadcast for your entertainment by the marketers of signal gasoline and motor oil and fine quality automotive accessories and by your neighborhood signal dealer this program directed by George W. 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