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14 he stole a car to take her for a ride at 17 he'd spent his first night in jail and at 22 he is firmly established as a small-time crook about town but he and Ruthie are still in love just waiting for him to knock over a big enough score to get married meanwhile Ruth works as a dancer in a cheap nightclub and sometimes that he goes over and sits at the table with between four shows I'm sick of being broke why don't you get a job what do you think I am a jerk working for 20 bucks a week I don't know how to do anything yeah I know it Eddie I know how I could have plenty of dough though if I could get some operating cash yeah well how much all I need is a C-note might will be a million $100 I'd give it to you you know that yeah I know Eddie I thought I told you to stay out of here you told me what do you think you are a copy go on I don't want you to place a cheap graph and I don't want you hanging around a girl he's all right look if he don't stay out of here I'm gonna fire you to Ruthie all right Eddie take distance I got a job for Ruthie yeah what kind of a job the kind of job I'd pay you for baby there's a guy over there who's throwing money around like confetti and he wants to meet you oh oh that big moves with the brown suit I suppose yeah that's him you smiling at your little thing what you call it they may be a better go over to his table sugar yeah maybe Eddie needs some dough shovel before you look and I'll be right over okay that is nothing personal unless you understand Eddie just don't want you to see a backstage after the show huh Ruthie all right Eddie you know I do and if this guy's loaded I want him understand yes Eddie and Ruth are in love but business is business so Ruthie goes to join the big moves in the brown suit she walked up to his table smiled prettily and said hello baby sit down build yourself a lap you're on the top of the night I yeah and you're gonna join me young stuff sounds like an interesting way to spend the evening you know when that bottle looks like champagne that's funny that's just what it is and I bought it for you lovely nothing's too good for Frankie Ferrari's girlfriend you're in the big league now sweetheart talk a great game stick around watch me play it baby I just get down tonight and I'm fat with that stuff want to help me spend it yeah yeah you know I yeah I got a lot of talent that way well what are you doing after show tonight nothing well that is nothing that you're not going to be in on you're in a lippy little damn aren't you I like them lippy I think you and I are gonna get along baby keep the next couple weeks open you're gonna be busy well look let's talk about that later because I got to get back stage for sure goes on a few minutes I'll meet you out in front five minutes after show though okay five minutes you must dress like a fireman I don't waste time at anything Frankie so that's the way love works on second Avenue Ruth steers the big bankroll Eddie's way well that's one way of filling a hope chest after the show Eddie's waiting backstage to give her the proper instructions it's 12 o'clock closing this guy's gonna be looking for a speak when he meets you they used to him down 12th Street and you pass the alley between Washington and Adams I'll let him have my persuader behind his ear and you run you bring back the first cop you can find I'll keep you in the clear I'll have a dough and be gone a long time before the John Domes get there yeah okay I'll do it maybe this will be our big break okay okay down 12th Street you're leading him to a speak say this looks like it might be very interesting doesn't it Eddie you scurry out the back door of the nightclub while Ruthie makes a quick change and meets the emmer as Frankie out in front of the club well where do we go from here Carly Lark what do you feel in the mood for how I feel in the mood for fun that's been 12 o'clock closing silly not that for the squares isn't it yeah don't you know any joints that stay open oh yeah I'm fine no one but it's pretty expensive oh dough don't mean anything baby where is this joint so on 12th Avenue shall we get a cab no it's only about a oh about two and a half block all right so we'll walk I love to be out walking around at this time of night not this time of year ain't the fresh air just wonderful I don't know I never noticed it oh you wouldn't notice it if you had to work in a gin mill like I do yeah what's a beautiful game like you doing dancing the flea bag like the club modern haven't you ever had a better offer want to make me one could be if things work out oh this is roughly we've turned on here no matter kid don't you like me I like it I love big men with money it looks like I'm a daughter chicken I weigh 260 and I make all the money I want no limit yeah well how do you do it I'm an operator and that's all the conversation we're going to have on that subject hey this is a nice dark street how about a kid oh no not here I'm full of the space only a block away can't you wait until we get there okay baby I like my dames with spirit up to a point get around you know Frankie I wouldn't be at all the prizes you turned out to be the kind of man that I could land alone yeah well I'll listen baby run yeah give me a couple of seconds and yell for the cop eat it beat it go on what do those signs mean bring around the moon they say means rain tomorrow Rosie Sunset said the forecast a fair morning and that big black circle side with the yellow letter spelling signal gasoline well there's a time that never fails to mean most miles from your gas coupon yes more and more wise western drivers are daily discovering that it's not just a slogan it's a fact you do go farther with signal gasoline and for good reasons one true to its 14 year tradition of quality signal oil company is still producing the very finest signal gasoline that can be marketed today and to the famous signal formula still places the emphasis on my lead so if you haven't tried signal gasoline in your car may I suggest there never was a better time nor a better reason for looking up the station in your neighborhood displaying signals yellow and black circle signs and getting acquainted with your signal gasoline dealer and now back to the quistler yes love on second Avenue can lead to all sorts of things like the slugging of a big spender in a dark alley and Ruth carries out her part of the bargain like an old hand at crime she runs screaming from the scene and brings the cops down in a hurry yeah right here there's nobody here now no matter whether you've been drinking no I tell you I was walking along here with a man with his name his name is Frank through food Frank something or other can remember his last name you better change your brand lady a heaven hallucinations nobody in the alley they must have lost their marbles oh yeah I ought to take you down to the station okay okay get out of here go on home and don't be bothering policemen and take it away Jerry that's funny Ruth you know that Eddie sat Frank Ferrari to the sidewalk just a few minutes ago and now there's no sign of either Eddie or Ferrari that's very funny you can't see the humor in the situation low and you're hurry to Nick's all-night restaurant to keep your rendezvous with Eddie he's there in a rear boot waiting for you but down to a college cheer with your baby sit down Eddie I waited to give you a chance to get away you know before I started screaming to the police other time I got back for the police well it couldn't have been over just three or four minutes you're not that guy was as cold as a witch's foot he wasn't there he thought I was crazy gosh I must be losing my touch but a guy must have come to and beat it all probably just didn't want to get mixed up with the newspapers I thought you said he had a lot of dough on him but I saw nothing but chicken feed there it is 78 bucks 320s and 10 5 and 3 singles why would I lie to you I shook them down that's all a dough he had take it easy there baby I know he had a hundred dollars because he showed it to me there wasn't a scene on him when I got him that's already you understand what's the matter with you baby I I don't mind your Robin anybody out and I never beat when you spent every cent that I could make but I won't stand for you lying to me Eddie no dame talks to me like that keep the hundred dollars they'll never do any good they'll do nothing but get in the trouble and I hope it kills you so after all these years the love affair between Eddie Ford and Ruthie Sprague hit the rock and just because Eddie stole a hundred dollars he did feel it you know Frank Ferrari was carrying a hundred and seventy eight dollars when Eddie knocked him unconscious and robbed him in that alley between Washington and Adams Eddie hated to lose Ruth but business is business next day he called on Bill Larimer at Bill's house in the suburbs Eddie'd always wanted to do business with Larimer you see Larimer was a wholesaler in counterfeit money wholesalers tell it for 20 cents on the dollar to the shovers those are the people who actually cashed Eddie had always wanted to be a big time shopper he'd had a little experience and he knew all the dodging so this morning he walks into Bill Larimer's apartment by $500 worth of ten yeah what are you gonna use for money this keynote hundred dollar bill huh yep what you get it don't I look it over it was made by the mint you know there's something about a hundred dollar bill it feels different you know yeah I like them you can square a lot of beefs if you got enough of them you're not kidding hey George yeah how'd you like to print up some hundreds for me one ten twenty hundred don't make no difference to me Timmy it take a look at this keynote did you make a good plate on it yeah yeah that is photograph oh yeah I could swing it see wouldn't it be a little tough seven hundred all the dough that is floating around these days that'd be duck soup push a couple of those a day Eddie you'd be in the dough yeah well how about it you're gonna make some up how do you say Jack will you buy them I'll take a thousand dollars worth a day that finished okay Bill you just placed an order well give me those fifty-tenths I gotta go get rid of them so I can buy some of those hundred better not try to shove hundreds in that suit you gotta get up front together with Eddie take some of the dough you make off those tens and buy yourself up front you're gonna be in that go kid so Eddie took a little trip out of town and spread his phony ten dollar bill in railway stations department stores restaurants and grocery stores and was never questioned he was gone about ten days when he came back he thought of calling Ruthie but decided he'd better call Bill first he was pretty excited when Bill told him the hundreds were ready he went right out there Bill was glad to see him he showed in the hundred dollar bills and they were beauty that George was a craftsman Bill said they are ready that's perfect the first job George ever did yeah he had beauties all right thank you can pass them I wouldn't be afraid of past those at the Federal Reserve Bank but here's a hundred you brought in I'm gonna mix it up with the rest of these now see if you can pick it up gosh I can't tell which one is it I can hardly tell myself if I wasn't an expert on it you've been selling these C-notes to everybody is a town flooded with them I haven't sold it that you can even just cut them from George today you got virgin territory son well that's good okay here's a hundred bucks give me five of them five that all I tell you again no I'm not gonna sell you a hundred bucks but give me two hundred well okay here you are now you're still consistent well you think I can pass the notes in this outfit yeah you look like a gentleman and take some jokes of it did you give 85 bucks counterfeit money raise something oh I'm stopping at the towers that's hotel in town oh boy you ought to see my luggage cowhide real cowhide yeah now you're operating ready let me give you one tip and probably get away with letting a couple of these centuries here in town probably won't be caught up with then they're gonna start with him you better get out of town don't you worry in the first place I'm not gonna get nabbed and in a second if I do I'm not gonna talk you do you do say in your last word yes I did be careful now you're in a book in the big time a real big shot so now you decide to call you find her at home and you make a date to meet her at the tower in the cocktail lounge you want her to see your new clothes want to impress her with the fact that you're living at the best hotel in town plenty of money you can't be blamed for wanting to glow a little can you so Ruthie meets you and you sit and sip your drink well honey how about letting buy gone to buy gone and let's start all over again huh yeah but that was a dirty picture now wasn't it you stole $100 honey oh but you friend of things so I could get the dough to start operating didn't you yeah I'm not a given you the money anyway but I don't like the idea of your lion to me that's what I was mad about did you say was mad you're not mad anymore no no I'm not mad I I couldn't hey you want to see something pretty take a gander at this that's right I'm lousy with him baby you know where I got him no well what you don't know won't hurt you baby look I know you got to go to rehearsal but how about me coming up to your place about the five o'clock why don't you take the night off I tell you what I'm gonna do I'm gonna buy some presents for you and I want you to be there when I bring okay I'll be home in five but look I gotta go now okay how about a kiss you're uptown now baby you can get away with things here that they never stand for down where we live we're in a big time now honey for good don't be so sure of yourself Eddie in your racket that's not good take it easy but you can't get over being a big shot can you can't resist going to a swing department store to buy your girl a real present yes yes I don't want to buy a lapel pin for my girlfriend I don't know much about things like that would you mind helping me out well of course I'd be glad if you see anything in this way that you think you might like well she's a blonde about five feet one blue eyes and where's black most of the time I think it's probably like this can you very much oh that one yeah how much is that 35 dollars I have to add to much trajectory that would be about forty two dollars oh that's okay can you take it out of this I'm sorry it's all I am oh well of course that's perfectly all right I'll have the pain for you in a moment yes Eddie wait for your change to stand there smoking your cigarette and after a few minutes you begin to worry don't you you try not to show it but just dance but something's wrong then you look around and see him the man with the unmistakable aura of a store detective he comes up the aisle and stops a few paces something wrong Eddie but they never arrest a man for shoving queer dole they follow him try to find out where his source is you've only got one of the bills on you Eddie you can say you wanted him in a crap game they can't prove anything but then you turn and see them to uniform the policemen coming down the aisle and suddenly you're not so sure you're not calm now Eddie you're scared panicky you've got to get out run run Eddie run you got away all right Eddie but you've got a bullet hole in your shoulder you switch cabs five times and cover your trail but your hand to chip won't stop up the blood that's pouring from your shoulder you've got to get attention and Ruth is waiting for you finally get to her little flat you get out of the cab a block away from it and wait until the cab pulls away before you start walking you're tired when you get the week from loss of blood yeah I love me in I don't know I think the cops in this time are going crazy you've been shot yeah yeah they got me through the shoulder what are you going to do I'm going to stay here till he dies down come on in a bit you've got to lie down yeah I don't feel so good now let me take a look at that woman wait a minute let me lay down I tell you the cops are going nuts I think the best thing to do with a baby is just a place they'll stop believing what happened Eddie oh morning when I got to town I bought them phone a hundred dollars you know I don't go pure on the of course I've been selling clear money what do you think Rob the bank and why did they do I don't know I don't get it even if they knew the bill was clear it wouldn't send for the riot squad and start shooting up the department store oh sure yeah that'd be a brain move who's that I better get in that closet whoever it is get rid of now we're looking for a friend of yours guys the name of Eddie Forbes know where he is no no I mean we'll just take a look around I know all right boys take the joint down what's the matter straight cut your fingers what they're doing on the floor I stood there for a while and through that door over there nice of him to leave like that get your guns out boys this guy's hotter than a four alarm fire are you going out of the way miss break there's level to be some fireworks we're going in after that guy coming up here for when I take this door and be standing there with your hands up or we start blast coming get me kick that gun out of his hands or cold meat by them you haven't got long live forward you want to take my things put it out with you crazy guys I haven't quit oh what are you talking about going to catch a must have been there what were you talking about queer go that's what you were after him for wasn't it having time of his money no where'd you ever get that idea we had this guy a bracket for that quarter million dollar bank robbery in capital city a couple of weeks ago he even tried to spend some of the money today that's how we got on his tail so 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signal gasoline dealer and now back to the first place yes Eddie Paul died for his crime but the police were after him not for passing counterfeit money the crime for which he was guilty no they cornered him for a crime he didn't commit a crime he didn't even know had been committed remember how Eddie got that hundred dollar bill from the heavy fender Ruthie steered his way the counterfeiters made an engraving of that same bill printed a few hundred of them and sold some back to Eddie but every cashier in the country was watching for the serial number on that bill and on all the counterfeit made from it the heavy fender had picked it up the illegitimately from a banking capital city and Eddie died because he didn't know that Ruth her wish came true remember when she was sore at Eddie for lying to it she made the wish that that hundred dollar bill he held out on her would cause you death yes we should do come through some time and love ends up in funny ways 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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