 And now, another tale well calculated to keep you in. When a man stops by at your place of business for a little collection, it's usually because somebody is collecting from him. Well, let's find out who that collector is as we bring you Lieutenant Langer's Last Collection by George Bamber in just one minute. Munch, munch, munch a bunch of fritos, corn chips. It's not polite to smack your lips, but you can't help it with fritos, corn chips. Munch, munch, munch a bunch of fritos, corn chips. Next time you want something to munch on, try Fritos. They're so crisp, so tasty, so good. You'll see right away why we say Fritos are the corn chips made to munch. Fill a big bowl with fritos next time you settle down to watch your favorite TV program. Boy, there's contentment in every munch. Munch, munch, munch a bunch of fritos, corn chips. Fritos are golden chips of corn as nutritious as they are delicious, so full of good crisp flavor. Such good for you nourishment that the ideal snack for grownups and children alike. Get a bag of Fritos corn chips today and munch a bunch, F-R-I-T-O-S, Fritos corn chips. Munch, munch, munch a bunch of fritos, corn chips. Lieutenant Langer. Long time. I thought you had been transferred. I was, Bruno. I was. Then what are you doing in town? Let's just say I came to look up an old friend. About what? A personal matter. Maybe we better go in the back. Very well. Looks like you're doing all right for yourself now. Oh, I repair a few watches, make a few dollars on small loans. Now, what is it you wanted to see me about? You know, Bruno, life in the sticks is bad. It's easy to get in a jam out there. Come to the point. What is it you want? $2,000. What? You heard me. I won't pay. Oh, yes you will. Bruno, you've already got two previous convictions at receiver of stolen goods. One more all to send you away for a long, long time. Maybe until the day you die. Well, I have done nothing. I've been strike since the time you let me go. I paid you $1,000 then and you said you would forget about it. You would give me another chance. That was then. This is now. But I'm clean. You've got no evidence. Bruno, how hard do you think it would be to plant some gems on a convicted fence? Then I will fight. I will tell the judge everything I know about the bribe I paid. Then it would be your word against mine, a cop against a convicted diamond cutter. But from what I heard, your word isn't so good anymore. That's why you were transferred from special duty downtown. All they had were suspicions. They couldn't prove anything on me. Maybe I'm just the man they're looking for. Listen, you... Please, Langer, for myself I am not asking. I'm an old man. Money does not mean much to me anymore. It's my daughter. She writes me from California. She wants me to come and live with them. I thought if I took a little nest egg, maybe I could give it to them, maybe help to set them up in a little business. Come on. Please, I've worked so hard to go straight. It hasn't been easy. Give me this chance. Listen, you think you've got troubles. The kind of trouble I'm in if I don't have $2,000 but tomorrow morning I might just as well forget about breathing. Now get me the money. All right, all right. Only once a man is paid, you should leave him alone. Here you are. One, two, three, four, five, one thousand, seven, eight, nine, $2,000. And $200 traveling expenses. I won't pay. $300 for being reluctant. Properly. Now look, you little rascal. Help me. You keep playing hard to get, and I'll tear you apart with my bare hand. Please. Now you're going to give me the money and keep your mouth shut or do I have to get rough? Yes, yes, yes. Just, just put me down. Huh? What's the matter with you? Nothing. Get the money. All right, all right. Here, here you are. Two, three. Now leave me alone. Something, something is the matter with you. What is it? It's nothing. I'll be all right. Maybe you better sit down a minute. Sit, sit, sit till you, till you feel better. What? And have you robbed me of my pass out? I'd rather take my chances on the street. Out. Out of my store, leech. I tried to help you and you called me names. Is there nothing left inside you? No, no, no decency, nothing? This is a tough world, Bruno. Dog eat dog. Out of my store, dog. Worse than a dog. You with your $100 coat and brown-shrie shoes. Out of my store. My only wish is that you should drop dead right before my eyes. Out. With pleasure, you little crook. I can tell it's bad this time. I'll be all right. Just take it easy. Slow and easy. It's happened before and I was all right. Just keep walking. Take it slow till I get to the avenue and call a cab. Getting worse feels like a hot bar inside my chest. Red hot. I have to stop and rest. Lean up against something. That's better. My left arm feels numb. Now, down my leg. I can't move them. They're dead. I can't move at all. I can't walk. Somebody help. Please. Well, of course I knew full well what she was referring to, but do you think she'd admit it? Help me. I'm a very sick man. Paul, don't go near him. Can't you see he's drunk? Please. Look at him. He can hardly talk. He's so drunk. Sick. Heart. Don't let him touch you. He's falling. Falling down drunk. He's just got it. You'd think the police would do something about this neighborhood. It's getting so I hate to walk through it anymore. Nothing but drunks and juvenile delinquents. Come on, Paul. Just let him lie there till he's sober. In just a moment, we will return for the second act of... Some recording star Mel Tormey. It's terrible trying to sing with a bad cold. So I always take four-way cold tablets to relieve cold miseries fast. Good idea. Tests of all the leading cold tablets proved four-way fastest acting. 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I think he's got a heart attack or something. Help me. Please help me. Well, what are you going to do, Chino? I don't know. Please. Hey, look. He passed out. Yeah. Well, come on. Give me a hand. What are you going to do, Chino? What do you think we're going to do? We're going to help him. Oh, come on. Lift. All right. We'll take him downstairs to the clubhouse where he can lay down. Oh, man. He's heavy. He must weigh a ton. Look, get your head under his arm and lift. All right. Watch these stairs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Easy now. Don't let him slip. I got him. All right. All right. Now, hold the door. Yeah. Hey, watch his head. Yeah. Boy, he weighs more like a whale than a man here. Yeah. What are you going to do now, Chino? Call a cop? Yeah, I guess so. Uh, get his wallet so he can see who he is. Yeah, OK. Hey, look at all this money. Give it here. How much do you think there is? I don't know. Must be two grand, at least. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. $2,300. Well, what are you going to do now, Chino? I don't know. Just think of what we could do with two grand. Yeah. Hey, we could own this town. Yeah. Yeah. What are we going to do with him? I don't know. Let me think. What's it say inside his wallet? Nuts. Oh, what's it say? He's a cop. How do you like that for all the lost people? What are you going to do now? I don't know. Well, for crying out loud, will you let me think? Boy, I hate to give back all that money. Yeah, we could maybe buy a car. I got it. What? We're going to get rid of him. Now, look, Chino, I ain't going to get mixed up in nothing, especially with no cop. Just say, murder, listen. Now, we strip his clothes and dress him in any old junk we find in the trash. Make him look like a bum. Then let somebody else pick him up. Yeah, but this is a cop. I ain't going to have nothing to do with no cop. They'll recognize him. Ah, they won't. You seen his wallet? Yeah, look. It says he's attached to downtown someplace. Now, that's the beauty of the thing. When the cops in this precinct pick him up, they think he's just a whino. Maybe he foes to death during the night. Yeah, but Chino, that's murder. No, it ain't. We picked him off the street, now, didn't we? We got a right to put him back there. We ain't doing nothing for him or against him. Besides, look at him. He's half dead. Left me out here to die like a bum lying in the alley. I don't want to die that way. Don't let me die that way. The snow coming down so beautiful. If I could only get to the street, somebody would see me. Nobody will see me here. Maybe, maybe if I try to crawl. If I do any more and kill me for sure, I can feel it in my chest. The whole area hot and numb. If I try any more, I'll tear it wide open. What was that? A bomb going through the trash. Help. Please help. Help. What's the matter, Mac? Help. Too much, huh? You got down and you couldn't give up. Please help me. I'm sick. Why, you sick? Now, you talk about sick. I remember one time. Help. Help. Why, that's all right. Help. Help. You're heavy, honey. At least your face is out of the gutter. You got a better slant on the world now. I know, I know. It don't look like much, does it? The world. But that's all we have. We've got to make the best of it. Make the best of it. You wouldn't have to have a little drop of one-ail, would you? Just a taste of it. Oh, please. Well, you are the most ungrateful jack I ever could see. A man goes through all the trouble of pulling you out of the gutter and you won't even share the wealth, which I see. Well, stick him out of your coat pocket plain as day. Oh, I'm sick. Please help. Thank you. All right. All right. God helps those who help themselves as they tell us down at the mission. Please. Please, I'm very sick. Oh, that's good. That's what I needed. Something to fight the cold. How about you? Are you careful? No. Doctor. Please, please get a doctor. You don't need no doctor. What you need is a drink. We assure you don't have any more on you. Oh, please, please, doctor. Now, wait a minute. Don't you go passing out on me. You'd better have a look. You know, to pull out on your friends before. Nothing. Not a dime. Not even a cigarette butt even. Well, if we had something we could pawn, we could get some more with that, eh? But you don't even have a cigarette lighter on you. Nothing. None of these. Well, those are huge. Those are mighty fine looking shoes you got there, buddy. I know a place where I can get 50 cents for these shoes. Maybe even a buck. What are you doing? Where are you going? Well, don't you worry. I'll be right back. I got a bottle for these. I'll be right back. We shall. Please come back. Oh, come on, Brun. I brought you a fine pair of shoes. What will you give me for them, eh? A quarter. Take it or leave it. I'll get out. They're closed. A quarter? Look at these. These are fine shoes. I paid $30 for them. No. You never bought a pair of shoes in your... Where did you get these brown, suede shoes? What do you mean? Where did I get them? They're mine. They're mine. Come on, now. I won't turn you in. You just tell me where you got them. Oh, well, what's it worth to you? $0.50 for the shoes. Uh, $0.50 for the shoes? And a dollar for the information. A dollar for both? I promise you won't turn me in. I promise. Well, I... Off a guy in the alley. He'll back. Quick, here's your money. Now show me there. We meet again, Lieutenant Langer. Only this time you're... You aren't so full of orders and throwing your weight around, huh? My only regret is that you don't still have the money you borrowed from me. Help. Please help me. I should help you after what you've done to me. That's very funny, Lieutenant Langer. Very funny. Bruno, please... Please help me. I've seen you start out, Langer, from an honest rookie to a cop on the take, and then you move downtown and God knows how many people's lives you made miserable while you were assigned down there. Not that I have lived such a pure life myself, but at least I have been trying to go straight. Trying to change. Please, Bruno, please one more chance. One more chance for what? To come back and hold me up any time you want to? What do you think I am, stupid? Whether I should see you die by inches then help you by raising my little finger for all the good you have done me or anybody else. What have you got there, Bruno? Huh? Oh, Officer, I didn't hear you come up. I saw you from the light of your back door. I thought maybe you were having some trouble. No, no trouble, but I'm afraid this man is, though. And why not? His trouble can't be cured. Just leave him there to sleep it off. Are you all right by morning? I... I think you had better call an ambulance. He looks like a very sick man. He looks like a pretty drunk man, Bruno. Go on home, he'll be all right. Why, no, there's more trouble than there were. I don't think he's drunk. I think he is sick. He's drunk, I tell you. You can see by just looking at him. Please, Lerton, this man is sick. He has had a heart attack. He's been done quickly. He will die. How do you know that? He's a friend of mine. I hear you're leaving us soon, Bruno. Yes, tomorrow I take the plane for California. I'm getting out of the business for good. Well, I want to wish you luck and I want you to know how I'll miss having you in the neighborhood. Been a big help to me around the neighborhood. Well, if it's only doing something, if nobody did nothing, what would the world be? I don't want to thank you, just the same. That's all right. You've been a good rookie, Lerton. I know you'll make a fine policeman. And I want to tell you how sorry I was about that friend of yours. I'm sorry we couldn't get him to the hospital in time. 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See the back of specially marked packages of Kellogg's All-Brand today for full details. Heard in tonight's story were Frank Milan, as Lieutenant Langer, and Murray Forbes as Bruno. Others in our cast were Frank Thomas Jr., Ginger Jones, Jack Grimes, Ian Martin, and William Mason. Again next week, when we return with Sleeping Is For Children by Eugene Francis and Ralph Bell. Another tale well calculated to keep you in on CBS Radio.