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new idea I tell you it was a brainstorm Fred and it'll be a political master stroke the voters are leading up Fred Conrad the great humanitarian the champion of the underdog why they'll vote for you in those it'll be a no wait a minute wait a minute stop rhapsodizing and tell me what it is it came to me as I was going to bed last night I just heard the news of the governor issued a pardon for Max Fenton yes so what so what he says remember Max Fenton the guy who was sentenced to life for a sensational love killing 10 years ago of course I remember him I convicted that's the point that's just the point don't you see it's great convicting Max Fenton with your first big triumph as a punk assistant VA right now the governor your political opponent pardons it so what do you do if you were blast against the pardon no no no no no you give Fenton a job a job that's right you meet him shake hands with him welcome him back into society and give him a job a helping hand get it you take him under your wing oh it'll be terrific wait a minute wait a minute that would mean I'd be siding with the governor of proving his pardon not necessarily you don't have to prove fully I got your statement all worked out besides sometimes it pays to jump the fence a little yes but suppose Fenton doesn't go straight supposing it doesn't work that's the beauty of it let the governor worry about that it's his baby he issued the pardon I don't you worry about a thing I've worked everything out talk to the parole board this morning got the arrangements all made is the statement you look at it not not not not not yet now well I read it okay well I cannot agree with governor doors on the wisdom of pardoning Max Fenton a convicted murderer the decision has been made and I as a good citizen will abide by it furthermore I believe it my duty to give whatever assistance I am able to fend in his readjustment to the society to which he has paid his debt therefore I have decided to employ Fenton in my home and to offer him every opportunity of once again becoming a useful member of the community how do you like it not bad not bad I'll do it well that's very decent of you isn't it Fred Conrad that is it would be if you were doing it for a sincere motive but you aren't no it's only your selfish interest you have at heart even when you meet Fenton at the gates and shake hands with him and he thanks you with tears in his eyes even then it's the newspaper photographer you're watching you're thinking about the stories that will appear noble decision the human side of Fred Conrad district attorney editorials lauding you to the sky you're thinking of governor doors up at the state house who's wondering what's behind it getting nervous about your new political popularity it all comes true of course the newspaper is the governor but publicity can attract attention lots of places Fred Conrad places you'd forgotten about for instance at the bar of the club Sam Murray I am knowing what would be make it the same Bonnie but double double coming up bourbon straight thanks something bothering you Millie why why yes that just curious you never ordered the double before oh yeah something bothering me now that ain't right a good looking doll like you as well singer you knocked him with that last number that guy down at the end of the bar there for instance he sat there with his mouth hanging open like he hadn't seen a good-looking woman in years yeah that bad himself if you like the pipe anyway he likes yours he should have been staring at you know who he is no you want to find out you know better than that the boss lives at the top of I got guys hanging around here okay fill it up again Bonnie you mean another double that's right you really are stolen you want to tell old Bonnie about it that might help at night Bonnie did you ever hate a person so bad that all you wanted to do was hurt them somehow anyway hurt them well now I don't know I have eat you up inside but you don't do anything to keep it all inside and one day this person does something he's a big hero talk of the town great guy maybe I'll get elected to something you wouldn't mean Conrad I'm not saying who I mean but he's no hero and I can prove it he's a heel suddenly all this you got inside you have to bust loose you feel like you gotta get it out get your revenge you're out what are you gonna do Millie I'm not sure yet Bonnie but I got a feeling that a certain hero in this town is gonna be sorry I'm alive before very long have you tried new signal Ethel if you have then you know it's the post war gasoline you've been waiting for the gasoline of tomorrow that's available today at your neighborhood signal gasoline station motorists who have tried it can tell you about the pep the pickup the anti-knock of new signal Ethel but that'd be spoiling your surprise just get a tank full of new signal Ethel and make that wonderful discovery for yourself touch your foot to the accelerator and feel that old motor get 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faithfully like you Mrs. Christie oh if that isn't just like you mr. Conrad always thinking of others before yourself then take your always doing someone a good turn all those prodigies for instance like mr. Simpson a protégé is Mrs. Christie oh yes of course well that's just my little hobby you might call me a speculator I invest in people and the dividends are well worth it probably one of your investments to make another touch are you in yes and before you open the door get rid of that dust mop would you be a sir you'll see me all right never hello mr. Conrad remember me really it's nearly all right and I'm no ghost mine if I sit down well no no no please do good Lord this isn't possible all right put your eyes back in I told you I'm no ghost I'm little Millie Mildred's daughter remember me Uncle Fred little Millie Mildred's little girl of course Millison yes Millison now that we've got that settled suppose you close the door I'm here to talk business well of course of course you may go mrs. Christie well now where have you been keeping yourself did you say something about talking business yes and I don't like Snoopy housekeepers well my friend you've done all right for yourself now district attorney next governor at least I know you won't be satisfied until you are you seem to know me pretty well I ought to do you think I've forgotten what you did to my mother you killed me just as surely that you'd stuck a knife in her heart committed suicide because of you yes governor I know the real Fred Conrad and I've got an idea there are a few other people in the state who might like to know the Fred Conrad I know that that letter in your hand looks familiar doesn't ah hands off I've managed to keep this nice and clean ever since mother died I don't want to get it all smudged up but I just wanted to compare wanted to compare the stationery to that letter on your desk no wonder you look scared still using the same personal stationery same letterhead Frederick Conrad same thick gold engraving I hope you're smart enough now not to write love letters on that paper what are you getting at ever hear of a smear campaign sometimes it takes a lot of big guys with a lot of pressure to blot out someone's career and sometimes just takes a girl you're threatening me with blackmail my mother was a rich widow you took her for every sense you had you were going to invest it for but I was but I have to go you told her you loved her promise to marry her I've got a complete record of your crooked worthless promises in the letter I've got even when she had a chance to marry someone else you ruined that listen to this my darling I must see you before you take this rash step you know I love you and I don't intend to let anyone come between us please stop I don't want to hear anymore that was the night she jumped in the water Cyprus point nobody ever knew you were there that night except me how much do you want for that letter let's say $30,000 isn't that about what you took from mother are you out of your mind I don't have that much money in the world okay I'll take it on the installment plan and we'll start with $5,000 by next winter you cheap little blackmailer is hardly the word I think you'll find me rather expensive before I'm through with you wait who's there I brought the car I'm sorry I didn't know you had company it's alright Max well what's the matter with you two I'm sorry well hello I remember you you were the Samarit's the other night yes I suppose I should apologize for staring as I did and you two know each other well not really you might introduce us Uncle Fred oh yes of course medicine this is Max Fenton not the Max yes I'd better be going now I just brought the car but it's alright Max I won't be needing it you can go no wait I was just going if you don't mind Uncle Fred Mr. Fenton can drive me home oh yes if he's not busy no I'd be very happy to good and we can go right now but Millie our business is all finished I'm sure we understand each other don't we Uncle Fred and I'm sure you'll make the necessary arrangements by shall we say tomorrow night Fred Conrad the road to the governor's chair looks a little harder than it did a few minutes ago doesn't it it's going to be a little more costly than you figure you've got the first five thousand and you pay it but then in two weeks Millie wants another installment another five thousand this time you need help and you get it from Moran your campaign manager but the campaign fund won't stand too much Fred Moran has to account for that money and he says as much the next time when you're trying to raise the third installment another five thousand no no no look Fred I can't do it five grand don't go around on trees and they're getting plenty strict about campaign expenses how am I going to account for it I don't care how you account for it but I've got to have it it's important plenty important you still don't want to tell me what it's for no I don't then I'll tell you you all play in the sucker for a canary don't not don't try to deny it I've been checking up this singer from the club St. Maurice becoming out your house to see you the bank and big money put two and two together you had no right to go snooping into my business your business it's my business too I'm in this campaign up to my neck and I don't intend to see you play sucker for a day like that now look I'm not playing suckering Colin paying big dough to the girlfriend while she makes eyes at another guy an ex-con your own gardener Fenton yeah Fenton he's the apple of her eyes you mean Millie is going around with Max Fenton sure behind your back you'll be the laugh and sucker this time if it ever gets out that's what I'm telling you Fred there's no more money period you better brush that day more fast or I'm cool yeah yeah maybe I'm better hand now Fred what's going through your mind then the land told you about Millie and Fenton the great idea burst in your mind didn't it a great idea but wait Mr. District Attorney you're thinking about murder murder Fred Conrad you know all about that you know what happens to murder as you sent them there many times yourself so if you're going in for anything like that you'll have to be careful plenty careful set it up carefully well Max you certainly have the green thumb the roses haven't bloomed like this in years that's what I've been telling them Mr. Conrad would you look at this basket of Cecil brooners my aunt they beautiful when you learn so much about flowers Max I took care of the garden you know where oh yes yes I see well to hurry if you want some of the zinnias Mr. Christie won't be like much longer it'll be like for another two hours but Jerry Max now Mr. Conrad it'll take him a good two hours to get cleaned up for his day tonight but you know I had a date oh I may be dumb but I'm not blind indeed neither is Mr. Conrad that's right Max oh no don't look so sheepish man you've got a fine girl in Millie and a mighty good looker yes sir there are plenty of young Swains who testify to that what do you mean by that well Max I do believe you're jealous just look at his face Mr. Conrad a regular thunder give me that basket I'll get you a zinnias my land safe the man must be silly in the head to get so upset over little thing like that oh I was a fool to make that remark not at all it wasn't your fault the man is just crazy jealous that's all your right Mrs. Christie it it's very obvious I just hope I haven't made a mistake wait what do you mean Mr. Conrad all nothing except you remember why Max Fenton went to prison yes he killed his girlfriend in a jealous rage oh no I only hope I haven't made a mistake nicely planted Fred Mrs. Christie will remember that later won't you the rest of the plan is taking shape in your mind too it's so simple Max Fenton once killed a girl he loved in a fit of jealous rage why can't he do it again of course it's too much to expect that you could drive him to it but it wouldn't be hard to make people believe it if Millie was found dead would it not hard at all of course that means that you personally must do the job but well ambition has carried you far Fred and you're not going to give it up now no not Fred Conrad now all you have to do is set up the scene and Max Fenton helps you with that when he comes in to apologize I just wanted to apologize for that scene in the garden Mr. Conrad I don't know what came over me I guess I had to preach too hard don't worry about it Max the man isn't responsible for anything in this heat I don't know what's wrong with me it's just just that when a man's gone through what I have this past just won't let him be I guess sometimes I'm afraid of myself does that sound crazy to you no it doesn't Max but you've got to exercise some control over yourself man snap out of these neurotic fears you're a free man you're paid for your crime face the future with courage you'll need it what do you mean just this unless you're prepared to face things as they are you're licked men will always be attracted to beautiful girls and just because you've fallen in love with one you can't keep her like Peter's wife locked in a pumpkin shell I know it unless what unless you just take the bull by the horns and ask her to marry you that should end in once and for all you'd be married and you could be sure I guess you're right I've wanted to but do you think I should I mean after all I've been through I of course man now look you call a write-up make a date to see her tonight take it to some quiet substituted spot and ask her and get it over why golly Mr. Conrad your break you make me feel like a new man I'll do it I'll go out and get the engagement ring and make a date to meet her at Cypress Point tonight after she gets off work thanks Mr. Conrad thanks a lot yes thanks Fred Conrad for setting everything up so well if Max sent an oldie knew how well it's going just the way you plan you wait long enough for Max to have made his call then you put in one to the same number hello hello Millie are you alone of course I'm alone who's this it's Fred Conrad listen I'll have that money for you tonight well tonight's only Monday is not due to Wednesday but you don't understand I'll have all of it so what I you mean the whole amount yes I had a pretty hard time raising it but I'll have it all for you tonight well it'll keep to Wednesday I've got an important date I know all about your important date but this needn't interfere I'm not keeping that much cash on me any longer than a half to I'll get it to you tonight and you see that you have those letters what time is Max meeting you at Cypress Point I'll be there at 11 I'll give you the money and get the letters and be going in 10 minutes what are you trying to pull the set up sounds phony to me I'm getting fed up with this business Millie and wash my hands of it once and for all either you'll agree to my proposal or we'll just forget the whole thing and go ahead and carry out your threats this point I'm beyond caring make you tonight at 11 and see that you're on time I will be and see that you remember to bring those letters so far so good the plan is thoroughly formulated in Fred's precise legal mind and as the time for action approaches he carefully reviews each step in the plot by 10 30 Mrs. Christie will be asleep he can slip out without her ever knowing the trip by automobile will take 20 minutes each way and the lethal business to be transacted at Cypress Point 10 or 15 minutes the whole job done in less than an hour and it's for evidence Fred makes himself a satisfied smile at this thought any number of people can bear witness to the fact that Sam and Millie had been meeting at Cypress Point this is Christie for one yes it will be an open and shut case but Fred keeps telling himself as he makes his last-minute preparations before getting the car out of a garage he stuffs the envelope with paper that's all he'll need for the final payment everything set now friends so you drive out to the point in exactly 20 minutes park carefully behind a row of shrubs and climb up the implying to the little park overlooking the water it's very quiet and lonely it isn't going to be anyone here and then suddenly you see her lying on the ground Millie put her on she she's dead there lies Millie dead and the thoughts go whirling through your mind it's even better than you'd planned Max Penton had done the job for you probably in a jealous rage maybe Millie refused to marry him somehow you don't stop to wonder about the fact that Max wasn't you until 11 30 but she should have Fred but now it's too late your thoughts are rudely interrupted yeah she's dead Uncle Fred Max what have you done that shouldn't interest you so much as what I'm going to do Max no no stop you're not going back the whistler will return in just a moment with a strange ending of tonight's story meantime a word about the gasoline you've been using this week as it had quicker 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love is impatient that max sent an anxious to meet his future wife and give her the engagement ring had arrived early at the point why had he killed her then you might have had the answer to that if you could have seen the letter he held in his hand as he walked away from the point to give himself up to the police a letter he didn't give nearly a chance to explain it was a letter on your station area in your handwriting your letter my darling I must see you before you take this rash step you know I love you I don't intend to let anyone come between us please meet me at Cypress point tonight just for a few minutes I know we can straighten everything out you're loving Fred the letter you wrote Millie's mother long ago the letter you were going to buy bags with murder the irony of it why you wouldn't have had to you see Millie was in love too she decided you'd suffered enough her revenge was complete she intended to give the letters back to you tonight and keep the 10,000 she already had as a wedding present from you to her and that sentence too bad trade it might have worked out so well next Monday at nine o'clock the whistler will bring you another strange tale 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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