 The signal oil program the whistler that whistle is your signal for the signal oil program The whistler and the whistler and I know many things or I walk by night I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak Yes friends, it's time for the whistler rated by independent research the most popular West Coast radio program And remember that every traffic signal remind you with new signal gasoline you do go farther than ever Look for the familiar big yellow and black circle sign that identifies those popular signal service stations throughout the West from Canada to Mexico and Now the whistler strange story Confession Only a week before Marty Heath had thought to himself How wonderful it was to be a part of New York in the spring With a grass turning green in Central Park and the crocus is booming in the flower beds Just a week ago Now it was different. It was a cold city a city without a heart Yes, something had happened to Marty Heath that had taken the heart out of everything Life had lost its purpose. Nothing had meaning anymore He smiled bitterly to himself and crossed his fingers as he walked through the revolving door Into the main office of the Ajax life insurance company and across the cold marble floor to the application counter The clerk was efficient and artificially friendly just like all the rest of My name is Martin Heath. I was here yesterday afternoon Martin Heath. Oh, yes, I have your application Let's see Mm-hmm married wife Clare Heath living at 28 e64 Street. No other defendants. That's right The application was for a $20,000 policy wasn't that's right payable to my wife. Yes take effect tomorrow Mm-hmm. Will you excuse me a moment, Mr. Heath? Of course. I'll have to look up your file Pardon me. You got a match up Yeah Here you are. Oh, thanks Cigarette no, nothing Getting yourself a little policy, huh? I hope so but you won't have any trouble. You know the old saying there's no one with endurance like What's the matter, huh? There's something wrong Look, suppose we talk about you, huh? Sorry, I just happened to see you were getting yourself a pile of your skipping By the way, my name is Blaine See you later. Okay Huh See me later. Here we are. Mr. Heath. I have your file. I'm awfully sorry But our medical department has a report from a dr. Chandler. Yeah, I know It's all right skip it Thanks for your trouble Yeah, it's Marty. They have the report from dr. Chandler, too. They're awfully sorry, but they can't accept your application Today, it's the Ajax insurance company yesterday. It was the national and the day before the Atlantic Yes, Marty. It's a cold city full of cold people and you can't even confide in the one person who means everything to you Please Clara. I don't want to say anymore. Marty. You've worried me to death all week I called the office and they had no idea where you'd gone. I told you I was out to lunch with the customer You're not telling me the truth Marty Don't you see darling? I know there's something terribly wrong and I want to tell you there's nothing wrong Can you understand that there's nothing wrong? Marty I'm sorry Clara. I I don't know what the matter with me up Look darling, let's forget about it. Let's go out and put away a swell dinner and take in a show I think I can get us a couple of seats down at the Barrymore and What about it huh? All right, dear Let's forget about it But Clara your wife doesn't forget about it and neither do you the whole evening is unreal Both of you trying to ignore the strange coolness that has come between you Trying to smile making jokes that fall flat Trying not to notice the awkward silences that come so often You promise yourself you'd never tell her Marty It's best that way isn't it? It's after midnight when you get home and you're both tired, but you can't sleep You're still wide awake staring up at the ceiling when you hear the clock downstairs strike three Marty Yeah, I thought you were awake That seemed to her life. I need a gun now here. Yeah Marty, will you do me a favor? Sure if it's somebody else Will you tell me somebody else another girl? Clara darling They'll never be anyone else Clara believe that we Love you so don't make it hard for me dear, please It's I can't tell you Clara I can't No, Marty, you can't tell her and you made dr. Chandler promise. He wouldn't tell her either You leave the next morning before she awakens to wander the streets again wondering what to do For one of a better place to go you end up in a bar on third Avenue Except on a big double scotch plain water double scotch plain water Hello, huh? Oh, it's you. Hey, my if I join it go ahead. Thanks You remember me so that the insurance office yesterday. Name's Brian. Yeah What yours is it important might be Heath morning. Yeah double scotch and water. I'll be fine. Oh, yeah, let me get this Keep the chance bartender. Thank you. It's a hobby of yours buying drinks for strangers. Yeah, I got a special on Maybe we better fires the bull somewhere Marty. I want to talk to you Okay, yeah, sit down. Thanks Hey Now now I suppose you want me to tell you all about myself now No, I know everything about you. I want to know for instance, for instance, I know you're gonna die in less than three months Who told you that I was waiting to see dr. Chandler the other day when he gave you the bad news Standing right outside the door. Oh, you're doing up there. He's my doctor, too. I Was sort of interested in your position mr. Heath. That's why I followed you watched you make a fast pitch to those life insurance Confidence what business of this is yours? I'm coming to that You're worried about your wife, aren't you wonder who's gonna take care of her what's gonna happen when you're gone. I don't blame you I'd worry too if I was in your shoes Go on I'll give you a policy mr. Heath 10,000 bucks cash on a barrel head no questions asked That ought to take care of her for a little while. What do I come in? Very simple Guys lying on the floor in an apartment on the other side of town his head is bashed in with a beer bottle What do you mean? What do you want? I told you it was simple You only got three months to go. Anyway, Marty Yeah, but what's it all about? Who wait a minute? I'll show you something They are counter ten thousand bucks cash That ought to carry away for a while. What do I come in? It's all yours Marty All you got to do is Confess to that murder With the prologue of confession the signal oil company brings you another strange tale by the whistler When you were out driving over the fourth was part of your fund spoiled by the way other cars left you behind on the getaway or climbed ahead of you on hills Well, don't give up cheer up There's probably lots of pep and performance left in your motor that you're not getting out of it That's why tonight for the benefit of you drivers who may not yet have tried signals great new gasoline I want to pass along the good news about this new super fuel. 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You can see it in his eyes as he sits opposite you watching you carefully He knows everything he knows you're going to die if there was no arguing with a laboratory test Dr. Chandler showed you that in three months or less you'd be gone and Clara would have to face it alone Without money and he knows too that Clara is everything Well What about it Marty? I don't know. What's it all about the guy's name is Stanley Rover. I killed him Does that answer your question? But why poker game last night in his apartment? I was the last to leave That lucky night and he decided he didn't want me leaving with his money came at me with a beer bottle Well, you can get off it was self-defense anyone else could but not me You see Marty I'm an ex-con You'll need the dough and you're gonna die anyway You'd be doing me quite a favor Marty. Yeah, I know Listen, I I gotta think this over. I just can't Okay I'm gonna trust you Marty. I'll be waiting for you in this bull the five o'clock You know by then yeah, I don't know by then You leave him there walk out of the bar and into the crowded Avenue and just keep walking All you can think of is dr. Chandler and the cold accurate laboratory reports of Clara alone in a matter of days of Blaine in his ten thousand dollars and You know it's wrong. Don't you Marty? But if you turn him down, what's going to happen to Clara? Yes, Marty. What's going to happen to Clara? Hello Clara Darling, what are you doing home? I know I don't feel so hot. I thought I'd take the afternoon off. Oh Well Well, what usually start asking questions about now go ahead. I'm not asking any more questions Marty. I See aren't you gonna take off your hat? Oh Yeah, come here Clara. I want to talk to you for a minute here in the chair by the window. All right Marty That's it. I Remember we used to sit this way a lot Watching the people down there in the street Feeling sorry for him because they'd never have what we had. Yes. I remember Clara you just said you weren't gonna ask any more questions. Would you make that a promise? All right Marty? I'm gonna do something pretty soon Clara something terribly strange something. You probably won't understand for a long time Maybe you'll never understand Marty. What are you talking about? You're asking questions. I'm sorry It's gonna make you wonder about me. It might even make you lose faith in me. I don't know I Want you to promise you'll remember one thing. Yes, I love you But you're the only thing in the world it matters to me I've got to know you've got to tell me no, please darling. Please try to understand I better go I can take it Marty. I'll help you. I'll do anything. I can't go on like this Without you Goodbye darling. Hello Blaine Sit down. Have you thought it over? Yeah, I thought it over. Well, put the money on the table, huh? Sure You can count it if you want. No, that's okay What do I do now? You're a good kid Marty Number one you go to this address at eight o'clock tonight. Yeah The fine robo live in a floor with a bottle right next to him I watch your finger prints in that bottle clear. Okay number two You're right a confession letter to the police. Oh, what'll I tell him? I have no motive. I don't even know the guy You can tell him when you found out you were gonna die. You decided You had to have the money for Clara you found out about the poker game new robo was drunk and as a problem with a lot of Dole I know but I'll figure it out. Haven't you I think so So you got the dough But you had to kill a robo to get it that's what changed everything you see you didn't figure on murder So you had to get it all off your chest. That's why you wrote the letter. That's it Marty That's all I want for my 10 grand You'll get it So that's all he wants for his money Marty and you're going to give it to him Once more you walk out of the bar and into the streets the money feels good in your inside breast pockets Snug against your chest. You're trying to forget about Clara now and concentrate on the shops on Fifth Avenue St. Patrick's Cathedral Rockefeller Center You see something new in all of it something haunting and precious now that you're about to leave it for the last time Finally you look at your watch ten minutes to eight Yes, thank you 128 West 86 right You arrive at eight o'clock sharp take the automatic elevator to the fifth floor Walk down the hall to Robles apartment and let yourself in with the key Blaine gave you and There he is sprawled on the floor with an ugly wound in his head the bottle lying next to him On a desk in the corner of the room with some stationery in a pen. It won't take your long Marty Maybe five minutes. It's over now You've left your fingerprints everywhere and you're careful to leave a first-class impression on the doorknob as you carefully lock it behind you Walk over to the mailshoot and drop in the letter. You just wrote Address to the New York police and then just as you start for the elevator I've been all over the floor. I didn't know what you're probably gonna get out of here I saw you in the bar with that man. Hurry up the elevator. You've got to tell me my right. I'm going in there I'm going to find out of there Listen listen darling There's a dead man in there explain now come on into the elevator You killed him Listen baby, you've got to believe me now. You got to have faith in me. Oh, where are you going now? I'm gonna get a taxi and take you home. I don't want you mixed up in this Please Clara, please Why don't you tell me? All right So you tell her might be because there's nothing else to do you can't hold it back any longer and You discover suddenly that you never really knew her She was right when she said she could take it It's nearly 10 when you arrive back at your apartment. You don't turn on the lights Somehow it's better with the two of you sitting there in the quiet darkness Well darling, huh? What now don't get the letter in the morning. Are we going to wait for it? It's the sensible thing I guess With three months left Should we be sensible? I don't know Clara. I don't Someone at the door. No, let me go Yes, sorry to bother you so late. My name is Moeller. I'm looking for a Martin Heath. Oh, I've been told he lives here Well, the matter of fact it is his apartment, but you see mr. Heath is subletting it to me My name is Thomas. Uh-huh. You happen to have his address. Yes 25 Wellfield Way, New Rochelle. Thank you. I'll check it. Good night. Good night. Why did you lie to him Clara? I told you there's no use party. I couldn't let him take you I couldn't write on the job I'm sure they haven't even got the letter yet. The neighbors must have heard us back there in the hall broken into the apartment Darling, you can't throw it away. It's it's all three months. Not there whole state will be looking for me in the morning We haven't got a chance we can try at least we can try where can we go Clara? Anywhere, let's just take a plane. Oh, I kid ourselves. They'd find three months Marty our last three months Okay, let's go Yes, you know, it's crazy Marty, but you're going to try it anyway There was nothing in the bargain about running away at midnight. You arrive at the airport There you are sir two tickets to an orange, but a hurry train leaves in five minutes And at eight o'clock the next morning you're signing the register of a New Orleans hotel George Ellingson and wife Pittsburgh There you are. Thank you, sir boy. I'll take your bags right up travel agent will be in around nine if you want to check on That passage to Havana. I'm afraid though. You'll have to wait till the end of the week. They're booked up pretty solid And he's right You managed to book passage on the boat leaving Saturday for Havana and settle down to wait for three days Knowing that by now the papers in New York are out with a story and the search is on you never leave the hotel room Clara does whatever errands are necessary and arranges for your meals to be set up telling them you're ill then finally on Saturday morning It's the boy with breakfast. I'll go Hello, Mrs. Thomas. What are you doing here? You remember me? Of course the name is Mola You led me quite a chase. Wait a minute. You have no right to come. All right, Mona. What do you want? You should have known you couldn't get away with it. He's let's forget it. Huh? Chalk it up to experience Maybe I better get my coat. Why? You're not going anywhere the moment at least Maybe tonight maybe tomorrow whenever the New York cops get here Incidentally, I sent them a wire this morning. They're on their way. What are you talking about? Aren't you? I'm a private detective Mrs. Heath employed by the Zenith laboratories Seems that they made a pretty bad mistake a while back Might have involved them in a damaged suit. What do you mean a mistake? Well three weeks ago dr. Chandler made a test on you and sent it to the laboratory for analysis a red and white differential Don't ask me what it was Mistake. Yes. They got your test mixed up with somebody else's There's nothing wrong with you Heath. You're as healthy as I am Too bad you went and bought yourself a seat in the electric chair, isn't it? The whistler will return in just a moment with the strange ending of tonight's story But right now I've got some eye-opening facts for you drivers who wonder whether the kind of oil you use in your motor Really makes any difference in the way your motor runs Unfortunately, you can't see inside your motor But I did see inside two test motors this week and what I saw just downright amazed me The motors were identical. 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Blaine and the $10,000 he paid you to confess to his crime You don't even wait for the police to arrive in New Orleans and response to Mueller's wire You take the next plane north and late in the afternoon You and Clara walk into the office of the inspector of homicide in New York City sit down please we'd rather stand I think you'd better sit down Both of you so you're the guy who confesses to a murder and leads us on a merry chase halfway across the country I'd hardly call it a merry chase inspector. I agree with you You should have known you couldn't get away with it till yesterday afternoon. It was pretty serious What do you mean until yesterday afternoon killing of Stanley robber was pretty ordinary, you know routine stuff Except for one very unusual thing There were two confessions What yeah Yours and another one Tell me why do you think Eddie Blaine was in dr. Chandler's office on the day that I told you You were gonna die. Well, I don't know he was one of Chandler's patients. That's right But Blaine was a pretty good guy after all wanted to do the right thing. I guess Told us the whole story. What are you talking about Blaine was a poor guy. It was a laboratory test cut mixed up with yours. He He died just the day afternoon Next Monday at 9 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 Featured in tonight's cast were Elliott Lewis and Adrian Marden This program produced by George W. 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