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And they could throw away the price bag for all I had to care. The only catch was I couldn't leave any of those beautiful things for myself. There's no shopping service, Ms. Murphy speaking. Hello, Pat. Oh, Mr. Christian, I find you the most wonderful chef for you. Hey, now, it's been delivered. You've done it again, Pat. Well, I'm so glad you're satisfied. Does your wife... Never mind about her. Oh, really, Mr. Christian, you've taken me out so much. I'm nearly as much as I... And what do you mean? Suppose I picked you up, Pat. As usual? I wouldn't pull right to any of my biggest customers, like Albert Christian. A few hours wasn't doing me any good, spending other people's money for things I couldn't eat. If I hadn't been turning toward Albert Christian, it would have been somebody else with a chessbook. A girl can find so many chances when she's running her own personal shopping business. Sometimes very big chances, sometimes so small they're hardly good for a laugh. Jim Allen, for example. You're Ms. Murphy, the personal shopper? Yes. Well, I'm Jim Allen. I work here in this department. All up on the seventh floor. Rugs, I handle orientals. I've seen you come in here buying things occasionally, so I thought I'd look you up. Yeah. I was wondering if you couldn't do some shopping for me. Oh, is it business? Well, it's pretty small. I want to get to know a girl. Maybe you want a matrimony, old hero. Well, I was afraid it would sound funny, but I don't mean it that way. She's a girl I've seen around a lot, and I, uh... Like to know her. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I mean. So, I want you to pick out some gifts a girl would really want. Before you even know her? Well, I wanted to break the ice. Would you help me? Well, I'll send it over. What's the limit on your budget? Oh, and I can go up to $5. Oh, I see. Well, leave your card with me anyway. Oh, if I haven't got any cards yet, I'm too new in the rug department. But things are coming along for me, though. No, I could tell. Where did you learn them? Well, I thought I already introduced myself. I'm Jim Allen. I'll call you up later and see if you've found something. Yes, be sure to check that. Why tell him I was specializing in the larger purchases? After you left the ride, though, I tried to imagine what it would be like. He was going along with a guy like that, celebrating with him over at 250 rays, congratulating him on getting to be sure-walkers. Oh, that wasn't for me. I was after figure-games. Let's face it. Let's face what? The time is coming. I'll have to be sure. What about? Whether you'll marry me? No. Are you getting me divorced? I won't need one. Well, let me interrupt. Just a second. You've known my wife's an infidel. I've never told you how ill she is. That's what you're counting on, Joe. Let me finish. It's her heart. Just what I don't know. She worked up all the symptoms in the book, and a doctor doesn't know either. She's an old-fashioned crack, but she won't have anybody else. And you'll imagine, he's treating her with an explosive. An explosive? Well, I'm glad you weren't serious. Oh, I am, though. It's not an explosive form. It's a treatment for the heart, or it was, before it did your talent replacement. Oh, it sounds terrible. It is. It's not a poison, of course, but in a concentrated solution, it has that same effect. I don't like this kind of talk. Sorry. I didn't mean to get away from my question. Would you? No. How can I? Well, if things were different, would you? How can I know things are different? They will be. Don't ask me how. No. I don't want to ask you how. That's better. Now, look at it this way. You've been making my purchases for me. Now I want you to have them. They'll be yours, Pat. You'll never have to stop buying anything you want. Well, what do you say? Do you really have that much money? You'll never have any limit with me. Well, Pat, I guess you've answered me. Have I? I think so. Oh, Pat, you're wonderful. No wonder I love you. I didn't say anything about love. No, not now. I'll buy that for you, too. Just put that on your shopping list. Everything else you want goes with it. Well, I won't say the commodity is impossible to find on the market. I'll have to do some comparison shopping around, of course, but I... I might be able to find what you want. Oh, I'm not saying I didn't know what I was getting into. I knew it, of course. Even if I didn't let myself think about it. Our cooking was right. I've given my answer. I knew it when I did the one bit of shopping he wanted me to do. Excellent discrimination, Miss Murphy. It's the finest stone in the store. Just give it a simple testimony, sir. Certainly, Miss Murphy. And the arrangement? Oh, the same as usual. I'm not sure if this is a cooking account. Do you mean you haven't heard? What about? Why, Mrs. Cushing has terminated her account. Oh, well, this is for Mr. Cushing. Albert Zell. Oh, didn't you know? Mr. Cushing has no account. So? All the stars have been paid by his wife. Oh, the charges? Now, about the engagement rates. Miss Murphy, are you quite all right? There was a bottom to the price. The money was almost in my hands and I took it for granted. Now that the money was taken away so suddenly, I wasn't so ready to give it up. Don't tell me I shouldn't have come to your house. I had to see you. Don't move. Just a minute. Starts way into the hall. Do you want to ruin everything? You didn't tell me everything you have is in your wife's name. Oh, well, that won't be much longer. This is where I came in. Yes, and it's time you saved. Pat, I want you to do something for me. What? Here's the prescription. Get it filled for me. What's it for? Just get it. Why don't you? She won't let me out. Why do you suppose my wife closed her account? She knows about you, Pat. Oh, not by name, but she knows there's a you. She'll change her will if I let any more time go by. I'll lose everything. I see. The prescription is the thing you aren't going to talk about. If you don't do it, we'll lose everything. Isn't that funny? I knew it was a man and I didn't let myself understand. You'll lose everything. What would this drug do? It'll do the job. And it won't leave a trace. It's the same medicine she's taking already. It's just highly concentrated. Who do I know like this kind of drug? Don't talk about it. Buy it. After that, you can buy anything you want. Buy it. Oh, I don't know. Oh, well, but I don't know. Who's the girl I'm meeting? The way I thought I did when I ran away from that Grime Stone house. Now I really knew what I'd been asking for. And I couldn't get away from it fast enough. By the time I went to my office the next morning, the prescription Albert gave me was just something else a woman can bury in her handbag. Hi, good morning, Miss Luffy. May I come in? Yeah, you again, Mr. Allen. Haven't you made your dream girl yet? Yes, I have, but I still want that gift consisting. Gift? Oh, you wanted me to find some little thing a girl would want to keep. Oh, sure do. Oh, he don't spend five dollars on it. I'd like you to make a test. Say, aren't you spreading? Oh, I can afford it now. I got a raise. I knew you would. Oh, I didn't even think you noticed me. Oh, I had to size up. You get there. Maybe not in time to enjoy it, but you get there. Oh, I'm enjoying it now. You see, it doesn't have anything. It's a counter. It's working to get them. You know what I mean. No, I'm afraid now. Oh, I think you do. I slice you up, too. Yeah, so I noticed. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't think. Oh, you know, I just came in to see you. Don't forget it. The girl doesn't need a gift. Oh. Oh, I guess you know that. Well, you were pretty obvious. I'm awful. Sorry. I just wanted to meet you. Well, you did. Yeah. Oh, and I got to know you just a little. I wanted everything to be chucked right. Is that why you upped the ante to ten dollars? Oh, in a way. I don't say to live it on stage, I bet you. I figure when I get to, I can afford a hundred, or is that a thousand? Is that how you figure? Do me a favor, will you? Go ahead and find that gift. Just like all you knew about was the original one. No, I'm sorry. I... Here's a ten dollar bill. I'd like to see you do that. No. Just leave the money and get out of here. I can't be bothered right now. I wasn't going to cooperate with Elbert Kitchen, and I wouldn't have. But then this Tim Allen had to come around and be so kind and sweet and good looking. I was falling for him. I knew it, and I couldn't let myself. I would not go without money any longer. So I ran from the thing I wanted most. Without thinking, I grabbed a ten dollar bill off my dress. Tim Allen's ten dollar bill, and I... instead of kind of shopping, I never thought I'd do it. Shopping, there's one button of spirit of us progressing. To be taken in small quantities? 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And now this is Desperate Bones, returning you to act two of Desco Shopping, starring Peggy Knudsen. Are you sure you don't want the 1% solution? Just give me what the doctor ordered. I want you to understand that this is a highly concentrated solution of spirits without resistance. More than a few drops of it would be fatal to a healthy heart. This is just good for you. Well, $3.67. Take it out of there. It won't. It's still good. Well, it better than what's wrong. Oh, just funny. About the prescription, let me call a few of them. Get in. Let me get in out of the rain, sir. Hurry up. All right, driver, just cruise around. Well? I got it. I got it. Are you sure it won't lead any trace? No. It's already saturated with the same stuff in a lighter solution than taking it for years. Where is it? Here. It's just a little gun. Give it to me. Oh, but will it... will it be very painful? It'll be fast and efficient. That's all we care about now. And it's got to be fast. He saw you in the hallway last night. He wants to change a will. Come on. Hand it over. All right. Here it is. Oh, no, I can't. No. No, I can't. Who are you talking to? Oh, I had to. I couldn't go on with this. I just couldn't. Pat, darling, you're going ahead with it. Anyone? No. Driver, stop the car. Let me out. I want to get clear out of you. My all name's Driver. Pull over to the curb. Don't think you're going far, Pat. I didn't need that, Pat. Oh, you don't have to. If I could forge one prescription, I could forge another. And I did a long time ago. They'll never trace my purchase. Well, I'm not a dealer. If anything should be suspected, your purchase will be so great. I promise you can't do it. Is this a convenient place to let you off? It's not far from your office. Oh, but listen to me. When you see me again, everything will be ready for us. Goodbye, darling. Oh, it's you again. Leave me alone. Please don't misunderstand. I don't want to annoy you. Then don't. Oh, I've got to tell you something. That's bill I needed. $10 bill. I've got to have it back. Oh, you'll get your raise tonight. I guess that's the best thing you could get for me. Here, take this to Pat. But you don't understand. I've got to have that same bill back. The same bill why? Because I gave the serial number on it to the cashier. What are you talking about? Well, the serial number was one with the police department and one with the watch boy. Somebody I don't know who paid for a purchase with it this morning. And when I noticed the number, I called the cashier and he asked me to bring it up to me. So I stuck it in my pocket. And then when I met you, I guess I asked him to give you that same bill. But I used to up there to make a purchase. Oh. Well, that's too bad. Suppose whoever got it has the same list of numbers and will turn it over to the police. Hell, it doesn't get you in any trouble. Pat, what's the matter? What's wrong? Pat. Pat. It was mine. The drugics would turn it over to the police. They'd connect it with the prescription. So, my own danger never ended in my head. All I could think of was that this big sweet joke would become involved. Get under trouble. I left out of the store. I heard me knew I'd left him out. I'd scared and heard myself giving directions to a taxi driver. But it brought me back to the large-band stone house. The house where Mrs. Albert Cushing just might still be alive. Oh, it's got to help. It's got to help. Pat, I couldn't hear you. Here, why did you follow me? You're in some trouble. Oh, you don't know anything and I haven't time to explain to you. Here. Oh, please, let me out. Get out of here. It's never been able to buy any happiness in here. How do you know about it? Well, I saw you come out of here last night. I'm afraid I was following you. I hope we fall into a conversation and then keep it going. When I saw you were crying and you walked away from me. You've never been around here before. And it's time to get out. Help me. Help me. Who's that? Mrs. Cushing. Help me. It's nothing to the matter with her. Is she alone? It sounds like... Well, well. Hello, Pat. Imagine meeting you here. Introduce me to your friend. Oh, Lissy. You can't go through with her. Help me. Help me. In a moment, please. Sit down, Pat. Let me make you a drink. Hey, look. You are so... What's wrong with that woman? Her hog, I think. Why, you dirty, cold-blooded... I'm going in. Kim, come back here. Let him go, Pat. Put your arm out. I'm going in. Oh, no, you don't. Let go of him. What are you doing? What are you doing? Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Too late, my dear. Hey, call her back. What have you done? She was having an attack. She asked for her medicine. And I gave it to her. Come on, get her back. It's too late for that. What do you mean? Young man, I don't know your name, but it's going to become well-known. I'll take that glance, if you will. My handkerchief will save your fingerprints. Oh, what's the idea? The prints will contradict any foolish testimony. As for the doctor, my late wife doesn't need one. This is just three burns again. In just a moment, you'll be UST of Disco Shopping. Now, a word from George Butler. If Dandruff is spoiling the appearance of your hair and you've been trying to combat it with little or no success, listen carefully. Many outstanding authorities say that the most common kind of Dandruff is caused by a germ called Pityloss Parmal Valley. Now, many Dandruff combating methods are no more effective for fighting this germ than plain water and brushing. For light water, all they do is remove loose Dandruff. To get real relief, this germ must be destroyed. Double Dandrine really works because Double Dandrine actually killed this germ on contact. Even in many severe cases, results with Double Dandrine have been remarkable. Now, the amazing effectiveness of Double Dandrine is due to a special ingredient and active antiseptics are wonderfully efficient. Many hospitals use it. In Double Dandrine, we call it Alvan. So try Double Dandrine and see if you'd all agree that most methods can't compare with a Dandruff combating effectiveness. Get Double Dandrine tomorrow. Your money back if not satisfied. Jim is arrested and charged with murder. I would say the minimum is a conflict and then the serious is a leak. I don't know why I'm still at trial. Everything is circumcised, but at all points it begins. I don't even think the gone-wires believe the truth. As Jim's a punishment, now who wants you to stay as far away as possible? And nobody listens to me, even when I try to shout the truth from the witness stand. And I know, gentlemen of the jury, that you'll not land cradies to the completely unsubstantiated charges of this hysterical girl who has attempted to smear Albert J. Cushing a man in position to look... And there was so much more against Jim than his fingerprints on the glass. He really had powered me to the Cushing house not once, but twice. The drug is with that $10 bill. Well, perhaps the fellow wanted me poisoned for himself. All I know is it was a woman who came in and died. And then Jim himself was on this witness involved in a tortured lie killed in me. Some big, dumb, sweet boy scum. Well, I admit, Miss Murphy knew nothing about it. I told her I wanted a medicine for my mother. Then it was over. All of a sudden, I was left out of it. You look funny. Jim tried to meet me with some little gift. $10. Well, nothing. But that wasn't a crime. It was a death crime. I told you not to call me. No, don't hang up. The way I felt about you hasn't changed a bit. Pat, are you listening? Snap out of this, Pat. My charge account is just waiting for you. Albert J. Cushing is appealing to my witness. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Albert J. Cushing is appealing to my witness. It had been a week since I've done any shopping, even for a customer. But who will remind me of hurting his voice, though? He gave me an idea. I went out and I did a great deal of shopping. I went out and I did a great deal of shopping. But the law won't let me sell the revolver. But the law won't let me sell the revolver. Oh, Mr. Cushing is facing to bill him double the price. You can arrange it, can't you? Well, as you say, and deliver it. Really, you're strong to say? Yep, guarantee. Though what a pretty young girl I am. Oh, it's not for me. Don't try to get him to deliver it to Mr. Cushing. Oh, it's a small bottle of cyanide here. We do not deliver it along with the knife. Well, that's right. It must be Albert Cushing. What the devil's the idea? I'm not at all sure, Mr. Cushing. If all this is your idea of a joke, what did you come to see me for, anyway? I'm beginning to wonder. Give. Less than a doubt. Don't give them away. You might want to use one. Oh, mind what you can... Sitter giving them up. I left them in a collector's item. I even kept them together in this cabinet. Excellent. I think the police will have no trouble finding them there. Police? What are you talking about, darling? What about my visit to the DA this morning? No, look... You don't think I'm going to let that boy die, do you? That's all settled. He was found guilty. In that case, you won't have to worry about the VA reopening the investigation. You're bluffing. In that case, why worry? Who's that? I think I know. Why don't you take a look out of the window? Just a moment. It's the police. No, you did talk to the DA. I told you I did. Just one catch, dear. This case won't stand up very well without the star, will it? Have a drink on me, darling. Oh, yes. You're going to drink it, my dear. I find it necessary. In finding you had committed suicide using the same poison that was used to murder my wife should molify the DA. Don't you talk to me. No. Let me go. Let me go. That's the cooking I came to. Hey, what is this? Officer, help me. He's trying to kill me. Don't listen to her, officer. The girl's hysterical. She came here stretching the blackmail me. This is how it all began again. Put it down, Mr. Cushing. Put it down. Oh! He poured me a drink, Mr. Cushing. You remember how Mr. Cushing died? I kind of poised you. They're getting ready to execute James Allen for that one. Mr. Cushing really killed his wife. That's why he wanted me out of the way. Now, just a minute. Yeah? Yeah, okay. Good work. Well, Mr. Garcia had it right. He's like Emily in the glass and in Cushing's basement. It's not actually poisoned, though. It's a bit of up-to-glisser in the old-fashioned treatment for the heart. Only it's the same solution that entered the Allen case. And no heart could take that. Now you believe what I said on the witness scene. Yeah. Well, it looks like it's real. The report's going to the governor. Will it be party? That's my bet. He'd better like it. You almost swap your life for his. Wow! I'm going shopping again. He wants me to pick out my own engagement ring. Oh, and I suppose I should tell you. Cushing was right when he said I was bluffing. I hadn't spoken to the DA. Oh, and that's with a policeman at the door. He makes the one on the boot. He asked me if I thought Mr. Cushing would buy two tickets to the Cushing's ball. I said I was sure, Mr. Cushing would. If the policeman would drop around at 4 o'clock. It's a good thing he wasn't late. National music for the Mystery Theater is composed and conducted by Alexander Sandler. Any resemblance between the names and characters used on Mystery Theater and any actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Sometimes when we're tired, we make mountains out of molehill. We putter around to leading the easiest job seems impossible. If you're that tired and pale besides, good doctor may find you have a borderline anemia. There's nothing wrong with that. 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