 and the Whistler and I know many things for I walk by night I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadow yes I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak tonight transcribe that's the whistler's strange story whirlpool he wasn't sure when it began it was too much like walking in the middle of a nightmare and then remaining in living in the shipwreck the confusion was all there again coming back to us but slowly hazy and there was a strange buzzing in his ears pressure the sound of the scene world then gradually out of the world voice and then thankfully at first the poison growing coming closer and closer it'll be all right captain it's the shot was exhausted easy son easy we got his name doc it's Hastings Stephen Hastings oh good mr. Hastings you're all right it's over we pulled you out pretty bad shape isn't it worst of any we picked up do anything about the others the Khalifa just radioed she took on most of them come on I thought he was going through it all over is better though he's coming around Hastings mr. Hastings couldn't be the mistake about his identity captain don't know that's who he is don't ever mind now come on boy drink this did they get his clothes these Hastings doctor there's no doubt about it the girl she's his wife oh could you get her to come in here just relax you're suffering from shock Hastings from exhaustion and severe shock would you come in mrs. Hastings just come in oh no I haven't any darling darling you're so tight for yourself so terrible water won't cruise being my idea hasn't been much of a pleasure to have a day huh doc yes mr. and you could you leave us alone a minute surely I want to want to be with my wife I certainly captain will wait on tell me what it's all about darling you shouldn't try to talk about I can talk to you they fished me out I'm okay you see I'm okay of course no and the name of South like this or in full dress so it's south Marty South that's fine and you are mrs. Stephen Hastings of the Shanghai I think you can call me Lucille yeah okay Lucille what's on your mind he's dead huh Hastings guy yes he's dead one that didn't make it one that didn't make it you you left him in his cabin he wouldn't budge it was if he welcomed it welcomed what chance to die I don't know you couldn't send anybody back after him with all that was happening I didn't think you've been thinking since yeah honey oh come on I'm waiting my husband Stephen has the money coming to him it's waiting for now in Singapore waiting for a mr. Hastings to pick it up any mr. Hastings will do crazy begin with how can you pass me off as your husband here on board there are quite a few survivors I've heard nobody knew him he stayed in his cabin half the voyage the others were picked up by the Khalifa we'll see him in Singapore now the Khalifa is heading the other way for the United States and we didn't know a soul in Singapore where does this money come from from an old friend in Shanghai EJ Galloway a former business partner my husband you see EJ made a mistake once a business deal in Singapore and I found out about it I told Stephen what to ask for he did he got the results shake down a nice guy your husband was a matter of fact weak at all terribly weak you know he almost got sick to his stomach sometimes just thinking about it about blackmailing his old friends and why to go ahead with it you like me why now you don't mean I can be quite appealing maybe the guys like Stephen Hastings but not the guys like Marty South get out of here that's all for any time we'll see if you get lonesome for me darling even just that's all Marty and then she's gone leaving you to rest and think and think some more for reasons you can't explain to yourself you don't say anything about not being your husband Stephen Hastings do you and then half a day out of Singapore you can't stand it anymore you call the doctor then for here you're sitting up how wonderful but you want to know what I've decided and now you like money Marty you know I think you like me look I know what I'm going into it includes you only because you are necessary part of the deal I'm very necessary darling so is having a husband Stephen okay I'll keep him alive for a while I knew you would but get this straight baby your husband made a big mistake when he fell in love with you I'm not gonna make that mistake I think we'll get along fine together just fine in just a minute the whistler will continue tonight's story all of us are proud of our hometowns and rightly so in this brief moment before we continue with our program we'd like to offer a salute to one of our hometowns in America New York City hometown to more people than any other in the world its history is pretty well known how it was supposedly bought for $24 worth of trinkets from the Indians how it started under the Dutch went to the British and passed to the young United States after the Revolutionary War it was our national capital for five years and George Washington was inaugurated there today it's not only the biggest but probably the busiest and noisiest place in the world much of its growth and prosperity is due to New York Harbor the port clears more than 5,000 vessels a year and ships almost half of the entire trade of the United States but New York City is many things to many people it's not just San Francisco multiplied by 10 or Chicago multiplied by three it's Wall Street and Harlem the Statue of Liberty and Greenwich Village it's Broadway otherwise known as the main stem or the Great White Way more theaters are crowded in that area than any place in the world it's the Empire State Building the world's tallest structure it's a parade up Fifth Avenue and a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers it's the Metropolitan Opera and Madison Square Garden it's Rockefeller Center occupying 12 acres and 15 buildings and it's the headquarters of the United Nations it's the native New Yorker who never moves off his block and the immigrant who came from halfway around the world it's the George Washington Bridge and the Holland Tunnel and Grant's tomb and when you've said all this you've still only scraped the surface of what New York is like what it's all about but one thing is for sure the people of New York are proud of their hometown and proud of the part it has played in the building of America and now back to the whistler you made a decision didn't you money about to steal and the money waiting for Steven Hastings in Singapore perhaps it was the suddenness with which Lucille Hastings thrust opportunity into your hands by asking you to pose as her dead husband but there's another thing you've decided on you're not going to fall in love with Lucille because that doesn't fit in with your plan at all the next night in Singapore the two of you move easily around the dance floor of the Fort Plaza Hotel seemingly just to devote a married couple Mr. and Mrs. Steven. You dance well there. Steven's improved very much and the poor guy was tired he had a right to me. I think we should stop talking about that. So it's me let's talk about when we go to work. I think the best way to go to go there when. The first thing where I go I have to look at each letter again. I think it's a little Taylor shop in Ponderosa State. Why wait to learn. I just think it's. What do I do that. Just have your coat. You can wait for it if you want to tell me Mr. Hastings what if they want proof then they can call the hotel and ask me to have. All right not until I have my coat pressed. Good morning sir I want to get this coat pressed I'll wait. Names Hastings. Oh yes and you're staying Fort Plaza why nothing Mr. Hastings just curious if you're going to call or anything my wife isn't there she stepped out no no Mr. Hastings as the coat please I'll have it for you right away. You watch the proprietor of the little Taylor shop as he takes your coat and moves off toward the back of the establishment you look around nervously ready to run for it if anything goes wrong but nothing does mark he's back in a matter of minutes handing the newly pressed code across the counter you pay him and slip it on feel the bulge of a heavy envelope in the inside pocket. Half a block away you open the envelope and look inside it's there Marty twenty thousand dollars in crisp unmarked bills half of it yours and then your pulse quickens and you glance back there's someone following you Marty and you realize that Lucille is still thinking as fast as ever that she's guessed you might not wait until Wednesday you turn hurry down the street on your way back to the hotel. You don't have to knock my own husband the neighbors like inside. That's all the excitement you had me follow didn't you did I the fat guy in a white suit right out of the book. Are you going to tell me what's going on when you calm down you might tell me I went to the Taylor shop like you said they give you the money that's not the beef Lucille I'm talking about the guy who picked me up on the way out one of your pals high powered insurance policy not making sense darling if somebody followed you it's because you went Singapore they out of alley darling rough neighborhood this is a big city. I wish I could buy that you can buy anything Mr Hastings how much did you get twenty thousand here it's in the end. I thought we agreed on Wednesday. I'll forgive you. No you won't I'll try. What are you thinking something pretty foolish but sometimes you would really like to level. So I can hold on for the sleigh ride I wouldn't take you on the sleigh ride not you take your mother don't hate me. Here I go. My back's against the door anyway. You do that it's not the key to not talk about. About now. Right now. Only admit it tomorrow it could be a knife in my back all right that's what you want me to say right now. Your mind is spinning as you leave her money you're afraid aren't you because the one thing you've tried to guard against is happening slowly and surely you're falling in love with it and you know what it can mean walk alone through the streets of Singapore you catch sight of him again the man she's had following you you hurry forward turn into an alley and stop wait what are you what I'll take it easy Mr Hastings I guess just one of the talk of the walk what over for our deal I thought maybe you'd change your mind the way you've been acting before in me of course this is sort of a crazy setup I thought you're going to meet me when you got in last week introduce yourself set it all up after all I've been getting things second hand I think you better keep talking Mr Gray's good enough and Mr Gray it might be I don't blame you for being careful Mr Hastings screwy deal like this but how's this sound here you take your wife to the Red Angel Cafe tomorrow night just cash like see you have dinner with her the last one then stroll out on the terrace terrace yeah nobody out there much just give me a chance to get lined up and then light her cigarette the match will give me a target an easy one it hit you suddenly Stephen Hastings the weakling the coward who loved Lucille so much that he'd blackmail a lifelong friend he really didn't want to leave that cabin didn't know Marty because he'd set up a plan to kill her at the end of the voyage a plan that he was too weak to go through with perfect isn't it you can get rid of Lucille tomorrow night and the following morning drop around to the tailor shop pick up the rest of the money and leave town but you're not sure are you Marty not sure that this is the way you want it to be what's the matter Mr Hastings you haven't changed your mind change my mind like a little more time to think it over I've been doing some traveling I want my five thousand bucks for days five thousand okay you'll get it you want to leave it in your hotel box small new bills cash Mr Grave the money's there tomorrow night you'll see us my wife and me at the Red Angel Cafe on the terrace yeah I'm too light her cigarette I know about this place right angel could somebody mention it like very much and I like you for bringing me Lucille hi you want to talk come on where we're going on the terrace but okay you can see the lights from the harbor beautiful yeah Marty you're going to tell me something inside yeah I was I think I know what it is you know Marty you're not like Steven at all you're anything but weak except when it comes to putting this sort of thing in the woods give me a cigarette I said give me a cigarette anything wrong with that I know nothing wrong thank you darling you know just the way you're looking now tells me something you do love me don't you yeah I guess I do give me a life like okay you're beautiful something I'll never forget thank you how the term midshipman originated in the early days of the Navy crews included nine and ten year old boys whose primary duty was to carry orders from the officers to the crewmen but since the crew was ported in the folksel and the officers aft the answers were forced across a midship several times a day thus the term midshipman today midshipman is the name given to the officer candidates attending the Naval Academy at Annapolis this is but one of many interesting facts which can be found in the history of your United States Navy in the police station in Singapore the arresting officers huddle around a man sitting under the glaring white light come on great we know you did it you've been followed since you asked for that money in Hastings Hotel Mr. Hastings gave me the money left that for me what was it for the killing great you were seen firing the gun all right I did it but it was a plan Hastings he was tired of his wife he must have been tired of everything but he was a weakling suicides been on his mind for months only he didn't have the nerve suicide but why kill her I think maybe it was because of some deal she talked him into he didn't want to leave her around so that she could follow through with it that's why Stephen Hastings set this thing up so they'd die together don't be half right use you suffer for example how many years ago would you say the first helicopter was invented 227 no that's only half right brush up on your aviation tell your eye and e-officer you want to study with the United States Armed Forces Institute you suffer it's easy it's simple if you don't want to be half right you use you suffer featured in tonight's transcribed story were Bill Foreman as the whistler Whitfield Connor Georgia Ellis Marvin Miller Lawrence Dobkin and her Butterfield the whistler directed by Gordon T Hughes with music by Wilbur Hatch is written and produced by Joel Malone and transmitted overseas by the Armed Forces radio service the whistler was entirely fictional and all characters portrayed on the whistler are also fictional any similarities of names or resemblances to persons living or dead is purely coincidental this is George Walsh speaking and reminding you to listen again next week for another strange tale by the whistler