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Keenan wind and so with the remarkable events of which Joe Eisinger has written in his novel The walls came tumbling down and with the performance of Keenan wind as the society chit-chat columnist who signs himself Darcy we again hope to keep you in Dear captain Griffin on a date which I am sure we shall always remember not quite without pain I was sitting in my office at the morning post Composing with my customary wit and brilliance my daily column of cafe society chatter When miss Susan Finch my devoted but mentally retarded secretary Poked her head into the room ran her tongue nervously across her dental brace and announced There's someone outside to see you mr. Darcy Tell him I'm on my deathbed Tell him there's a priest in here now administering the final sacraments. I'll go away. Well, I couldn't tell him that mr. Darcy He's a priest himself Did you say priest? Well, perhaps I am in articular mortis and didn't know it very well duchess asked the good father to come in Yes, sir, please come in father. Thank you my child. You are mr. Darcy. I am Darcy What can I do for you father? My you've changed. Yes, it's been so many years. No, we've met before St. Francis's parochial school and your name was Patrick O'Donnell and I father Walsh. Oh, but of course. Well, I'm so glad to see you again So very glad Patrick. I know you're a very busy man, but I don't know where else to turn It was three nights ago late in the evening when he first came to see me Who well a man? I'd never seen the herd of he demanded that I give him the bibles What bibles I don't know and when I asked he smiled as though it were a game and said The bibles mocked eb. I feared the poor man might be deranged and I suggested it Perhaps he'd better come again in the morning. He rose from his chair in anger saying he would give me three days to help him find the Find the bibles No Not the bibles that I would help him find The walls of Jericho or else I would regret it Did you say the walls of Jericho for the past two nights? He's been laudering outside the gates of the church yard as though watching to see who who my visitors are You say he came to see you three days ago and gave you three days in which to Yes, yes. Well now, what did the police say? I I I haven't reported this to the police I can't go to them. I've been warned not to by this madman. No, no, no by my bishop You see when I told him about it. He refused to credit it said it was a Fegment of my imagination and warned me not to speak such nonsense again. I see Father, I'm sure you've nothing to fear. You don't believe me either. Of course. I believe you Now, please let me visit you tonight, father. We'll talk further about this There are many things I'd like to talk to you about as as we did years ago Years years ago Very well my son, I'll expect you at eight You will come won't you only death could keep me away And now in this brief intermission Let us picture this scene a scene beneath a radiant Caribbean moon at the fashionable hotel national de Cuba in Havana, Cuba An American dinner guest has just raised his glass and a toast to Havana It's traditions. It's beauty the superb dinner and wine His Cuban host replies True the traditions the scenery and the food you enjoy. They are ours But the wine of which you speak so highly that is of your country We must import it. It is the famed roma wine made in your own california Yes, it does surprise many americans that california produces wines roma wines of such uniformly superb quality That they are imported to many foreign countries as special occasion luxuries But millions of americans do know and enjoy the excellence of roma wines daily with meals and when entertaining These millions have made roma america's largest selling wines They know too that roma wines are amazingly inexpensive for wines of such distinguished character That's because here in america you pay no high import duty no expensive shipping charges Yet roma brings you wines that combine age old winemaking skill with modern scientific testing and quality control All this for only pennies a glass So for maximum enjoyment at low cost Ask for roma wines made in california for enjoyment throughout the world And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our soundstage Keenan win in the walls came tumbling down a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense And so my dear captain griffin with a punctuality I had not exhibited in years On the stroke of eight. I found myself standing before the high iron gates of st. francis churchyard I must admit that father wall should intrigue me with this fantasia of a man seeking the walls of jericho No response I tried the door Swung open and I stepped into a musty dimly lighted hall Father walsh Father walsh you at home There was no answer I crossed to the door of the study threw it open First I could see nothing in the darkness and then I saw suspended from a low beam in the ceiling the cord of his robe not a tightly about his neck Father walsh There was no urgent need to cut him down He was quite dead That's the way I found him I came in to give him his cup of warm milk and that's the way I found him who are you I'm his sister catherine walsh My brother He never would have committed that sin But who have you called the police? Yes, I Aren't you from the police? No. No. No. I'm uh I was his friend you you're Darcy. Yes I'll tell me what you know about the bibles before the police get here This afternoon after he saw you a woman telephoned He talked to her for a long time and when he hung up he said he remembered now about the bibles 40 years ago. He took care of a sick vagrant The poor man died and left to my brother two bibles a bum left father walsh two bibles 40 years ago Well, do you know where they are? Yes, one is now packed away upstairs in the attic and the others That must be the police I don't say anything about the bibles. I'm asking you to trust me. Call me tomorrow at my office. I'll I'll let them in Oh come on. Oh, I Father walsh is expecting me. Well come in Who are you? My name is Patricia barons and Is something wrong? Why should anything be wrong? I I don't know. It's just that Well, I had an appointment with father walsh and I when did you make this appointment early this evening on the telephone? I'm afraid I'm a little late indeed. You are Father walsh is dead Dead Oh, but he can't be why not But I've been searching for him for so long and not are you sure that you were looking for father walsh or was it the walls of jericho? I don't know what you mean. No if Ernst did any talking about Well, he had no right Ernst Ernst who? Now look my sweet you'd better tell me what you do know because father walsh didn't just die quietly with a smile on his lips Father walsh was murdered murdered Look, you you've got to trust me. Well, I'll hate myself for this in the morning, but okay. Let's get out of here Yeah, mr. Darcy. Mm-hmm. Good morning. This is catherine walsh I've got the bible. I told you about last night that was in the attic and the other one miss walsh Don't say anything more. You come to my apartment at three this afternoon 24 sudden place if I'm delayed the doorman will let you in and shall I bring oh, yes Yes, by all means bring the uh book with you very well, mr. Darcy. I'll be there Yes, duchess. Hey, mr. Ernest helms is waiting outside Ernst. Well prod him in susan prod him in All right, mr. Helm Is this or is this not your card, sir? My name is annett. Uh-huh, then it is your card. My name is Darcy. I'm the columnist for the poster What can I do for you? Uh, please My name is Ernst helms. I deal in rare books I've been commissioned by a client to find two bibles for a certain collection You can trust me, sir. I'm experienced. I'm reliable. I am Discreet. Yeah, that is how I am. Well very well and you want me to help you find the bibles No, mr. Darcy. No, not quite. I want to buy them from you. Oh, then you've come to the wrong man I'm not a book dealer. I'm a newspaper man. I might be able to help you find something And what is your fee? How much cash do you have with you? How do I know you have the bibles? Well, I didn't say that I did have How do I know you know where they are? Oh, you don't know anything. How do I know you aren't lying to me? How do I know you aren't a fake? Now you'll get nowhere by flattery. You haven't got the bibles. You don't know where they are You are a swindler thief. You're trying to rob me like everybody else I know you are vicious degenerate fiender and temptable foul Don't please. Sorry brother Okay Hey, what happened? Oh just a little thing. I've got some water there All right, now wait outside Susan What? Oh, you're all right now Mr. Darcy. Yes, you're fine now. I'm Ernst Helms, please. I come from Prague. Well, how do you do? My shirt, it's all What happened? Oh, nothing, nothing. An accident? Oh, you're fine now. Here, let me help you then Your coat. Oh, thank you My money. Where's my money? On my desk You'll leave it there if you want the bibles. The bibles marked eb Yeah Please How soon will you deliver three days? Please I can trust you Please Well, that isn't the point as long as I have your money, mr. Helms. I think I can trust you Good day flat top Oh My dear young lady look I arrive here punctually for my appointment with mr. Serco hodakas for 230 It is now close to three. I have read the entire contents of time life esquire captain billy's whiz bang Oh, mr. Darcy. Yes waiting long and terribly sorry come in Sit down. Well, thank you Mr. Darcy, I shall be brief to the point. I'm an attorney. I have a client named Ernst helms He visited your office this morning. How do you know that? He told me so. I manage his affairs He also told me he gave you $1,800. I simply want you to tell me why he gave you that money Why don't you ask mr. Helms that question? Very well blunt and to the point My client has paid out large sums of money to swindlers. Yes trying to locate certain books It is my duty to see that he is now protected Well, mr. Helms paid me that money for a book which I gave him What kind of a book a bible? You gave to mr. Helms a bible. Yes Good lord a bible for 800 dollars And I suppose helms knew what he was doing. I'm going to wash my hands of him one of these days You're telling the truth. Mr. Darcy You really gave him this bible. I'm a liar if I didn't So I was a liar, but that was the best I could do on short notice I had no wish to become involved in attire some litigation and one perhaps which might draw the attention of the police to me I left mr. Hodakus office as quickly as possible Raced home and it was with some anticipation that I learned from the dormant that Catherine wall should arrive and was now in my apartment I'm ready and Darcy in time for tea. Well, well captain griffin detective Lucas And if my memory does not fail me and unfortunately it does not Detective Regan are you gentlemen waiting for a fourth for bridge? We've got our fourth in the other room Darcy I took three small reluctant steps into the darkened room It was lying on the floor on the other side of my bed near the small table on which my telephone stood It was the frail body of Catherine Walsh. Well Darcy Now griffin I find this very embarrassing. Yeah, I'll just tell you feel but right now Darcy You must make an effort to tell me the whole story And believe me my friend it better be good My story you remember captain griffin was good In fact, it was so good that after two hours of torture was questioning You agreed to release me on my promise that by evening I would come to you with the full meaning of the bibles and the walls of Jericho Straightening my tie and looking jaunty and attractive as usual. I awaited the arrival of the lovely one Well, here I am Look Darcy, I'm frightened. Uh stop acting like Jane Eyre. Please don't be harsh with me now Well, they weren't very gentle with father Walsh and his sister Darcy I'm so frightened the manager of my hotel told me that he got a phone call from Ernst Helms asking him to Put his trunk and luggage in the storeroom. He's gone away and I don't know what to do try telling me the truth Yes, yes I'm sorry. I started the whole thing His letter said there'd be blood and murder He was right whose letter Elias Barron's You mean the Elias Barron's the artist? Yes He was my grandfather I started to write a biography of Elias Barron's to show the world how he was forced to suffer and live in poverty What the greatest and most celebrated painter of our time went through to Well During my research, I found this scrap of letter here. Read it Live only to finish my greatest work My only mural And there will come the day when men will again shed blood for the Walls of Jericho as did Joshua and his hosts But only in my bibles will be found the key He who reads each word of god will uncover the sweeping vision of the walls of Jericho On the wall of my hovel Glory be to god and cursed be all men Well that mural is priceless But no one knows where my grandfather lived or died. He'd run away from a hostile world I retained Ernst Helms and art dealer to help me in my search And Elias Barron's was the poor unknown vagrant that father wash took care of and buried. Yes We traced the bibles to father wash, but Oh Darcy, I'm so frightened. I I can't find Helms and I don't you don't have to bother to look for him The police will do that for you. What do you mean? He has one of the bibles Then why doesn't he come to me because that mural is uh Well, it's finder's keepers in a case like this, but helms is now a fugitive wanted for murder Oh, and the other bible is undoubtedly nowhere on this earth That's what poor catherine wash was trying to tell me, but we know that Elias Barron's left two bibles to father wash Yeah, uh Wait a minute Wait a minute Father walsh, of course. I'm a dope I remember a warm and lovable little thing he used to do that the whole neighborhood knew about when I was a kid He always used to bury a bible with the souls he buried So One bible he kept which is now in the possession of the killer of catherine walsh And the other bible he blessed and buried with the dead man, but that means it precisely We don't know where under what name barons died or where he's been buried I'll have a jar of conjure Joshua Give me that Give me that now. Let's see jj Joshua joshua The son of nun joshua nun. What how do you spell it? Oh, and you in Oh pray that my womanly intuition is not playing me false come along Where to see if there isn't a joshua nun buried in father walsh's church yard Oh Darcy we shouldn't be doing this. Why not Cross says joshua nun And if i'm wrong this time it won't be wasted effort I'll simply crawl into the grave myself and pull it in after me Here here. I've struck it. Give me that crowbar quickly quickly. Come on. Oh dear. Dear The bible we found all right Darcy stand where you are. Well griffon. I've uh, I found that other bible You found 10 years on the pen for body snatching Well captain griffon this time as you must remember my story was even better And you agreed that now with one bible in our possession We might succeed in smoking out the killer who had the other bible The entire story of alias barons and his walls of jericho broke into the press And a veritable epidemic of wall scraping struck the city It was on the fifth day that a phone call from circle hodakus asked me to see him at once on a matter of great importance Yes, mr. Darcy helms called me twice. I tried to trace the calls, but it was impossible All he would say is that he didn't kill anybody But that he had the other bible and he get it and he wouldn't explain He said he's sending it to me so that you could find the mural But the condition is that as his attorney I protect his interest in the sale of the mural. He has a right to that even though he is a fugitive Do you agree? I agree good Here is the bible which came in this morning's mail The bible he gave me was very old On its covers were the initials eb I turned to the book of joshua And the fourth paragraph of the sixth chapter two words have been underscored Seven rams What's what's marked in the other one the one you have here i'll read it And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams horns And it shall come to pass And the words seven priests are underscored Hmm seven rams and seven priests Not much to go on is there enough The word priests tell us where the bibles would be found Now we're left with two sevens and the word rams Where would you expect an artist to spend his last declining days? Right Greenwich village And there you will find in father walsh's parish a street named ram street And i'm sure that at 77 ram street you will find the walls of jericho by alias barons Patricia my sweet swoop up your trumpet the walls are about to come tumbling down Yeah, this is where the crazy old coat used to live joshua he called himself But not quite the savour is it and this is where a great artist was forced to Well, let's let's get on with it The mural must be hidden under the paint of one of these walls the days mr. Klinger here will find it What's that? Oh, don't let that frighten you miss it goes on day and night building a subway right under us Doesn't feel very safe. Uh, perhaps you better start your examination mr. Klinger. Yes, I start making my test now For the next three hours mr. Klinger the expert worked without pause taking specimens of almost every square foot of wall space Examining his findings for oil tones under his microscope Finally bending low over a sample. I think I don't know Looks like flesh tone oil Maybe just another layer of paint I must take four or five more specimens of that same layer and how How will you know if if I get different tones in the same layer? Then I'll say the mural is there Second specimen a sky blue tone Third specimen an earth color fourth bright fuchsia And fifth Yes Fifth is a vivid beautiful gold My friends on that wall under that grimy paint. You see is the last great work of alias barons the walls of jerrycore A fortune a fortune. Yes, mr. Hodek is a fortune But before we can announce our discovery we have a serious problem to solve The finding of the mural means that we secured the second bible which led us to it And we could have secured that only from your client Ernst helms who was wanted for murder I I don't understand. It's very simple We will be charged with working in concert with a murderer unless we apprehend him and turn him over to the police Yes, but I don't see how well I have a plan patricia You will leave it once for chicago Hodekus says that is where helms called from you will take all of the helms luggage Which is now in the storeroom of the hotel botan Including his large trunk See here. I why why must she take the because I feel very strongly that helms will suddenly appear If we move that trunk Hey, I think we better get out of here. Yeah, let's go. No. No, we don't he's got a gun. So you know, yes Well, yes I knew when I learned from my secretary that she told you when you called me that catherine waltz Was coming to my apartment with a book and you kept me waiting in your office while you went there and killed her for the Bible you finally turned over to me And you decided to force my hand find the mural Precisely, mr. Hodekus and when you made it necessary for me to lie to you about giving the bible to helms I unwittingly signed his death warrant You knew that helms was an honest man working for patricia and you intended all along to secure that mural for yourself And so when helms couldn't turn over the bible to you when you demanded it from him You were forced to murder him and his body is now stuffed into his trunk in the storeroom of the hotel So you've got it all figured out We'll figure this one out Was how it came about that the walls came tumbling down A right over mr. Hodekus embarrassed ears It is too bad. He did not live long enough to confess to the murder of father walsh But it's obvious that he killed him to prevent him from giving the bible in his possession to patricia Well, my dear, I think that should take care of griffin's curiosity And shall I sign the letter simply darcy? No, no sign it darcy o'donnell From now on my pet i'll be forced to use my last name since uh, you are going to share it with me And so closes the walls came tumbling down starring keen and wind to night's tale of suspense Suspense is produced and directed by william spear Have you discovered as thousands have how much roma wines add to the enjoyment of your meals How their superb flavor makes special occasion feasts out of everyday meals Find out for yourself. 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