 tired of the everyday routine ever dream of a life of romantic adventure want to get away from it all we offer you escape designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure escape brought to you by the richfield oil corporation of New York and the independent marketers of richfield gasoline's motor oils and other petroleum products look for the richfield eagle on the cream and blue pumps we escaped to a small town on the California coast behind whose scenes exists a world of terror blackmail and death as HV Dixon tells it in his exciting new novel something for nothing the moon wasn't up yet it was after nine and as dark as my pocket and I was still a hundred miles below San Francisco the coast route is tricky driving to the road dips and curves like a squirming snake smack up against the mountains on one side and on the other a sheer long drop to the sea but I was driving north and I had the inside lane which wasn't so bad I kept bowling right along then about three miles below base side I was going into a sharp curve to the right when beyond it coming toward me though lights of another car flared up a big cream colored sedan on the wrong side of the road bearing down on me I slammed on my brakes and skidded sideways the other car barely skinned past and I saw a woman hanging halfway up the door on the driver's side looking scared to death she didn't even try to make the turn our car went straight for the cliff and just as it went over the woman jump and the car went smashing down the face of the cliff easy a 200 foot drop all the way to the ocean hey hey are you all right maybe she slid over hey there what where are you oh there you hold on don't fall over the edge now I'm a little shaky there we go I didn't see your car not till the last second look lady I didn't run you off the road you you were way over on my side I didn't mean it was your fault my my brakes failed I was coming down the great I guess I lost my head you could have made it all right without brakes you weren't going very fast I can't see your car down there it's probably underwater might have landed on the rocks no I heard it flash can I drive you anywhere I wasn't going your way that's all right I'll go back to Bayside I was going to see some friends down the road but I don't feel like seeing them now you can drop me in town fine I'd be glad to whoa whoa you're pretty wobbly let me help you it was a shock I guess yeah that was a close one say wait a minute there wasn't anybody else in that car was there no no I was alone you live in Bayside yes I might stop off there tonight over night well you couldn't possibly find a room tonight the the tourist season started well I might find something in a motel I'm sure everything's full up and it's easy driving beyond Bayside no more mountains if you're going to San Francisco yeah that's where I'm going do you live in San Francisco oh I did when I was a kid lately I've been living in LA I've been working in pictures oh for a while I thought I'd be another Clark Gable or a Robert Taylor or something every agent in town was after me but you know how it is didn't pan out why not you handsome oh sure too handsome I photographed too slick I saw I'd never be anything but third rate so I got out I suppose that's sensible well welcome Bayside City Limits now what do I take you straight ahead this is surf avenue it'll take you through to the main highway what do you live oh you don't have to take me there stop here well why here I'm going to the police station to report the accident don't you want me to go along and be a witness oh no I'm sure that isn't necessary out have a nice trip to San Francisco thanks you are going right through aren't you well I guess so you'll be there in two hours yes I know yes well well thanks again and goodbye it was something funny about that Dame something was worrying her besides that accident the way she acted taught me for instance all she cared about was getting me out of town fast so naturally I decided to stay a while to find out why I found a room without any trouble at all and then I walked around Bayside I liked what I saw the cars the stores where the women were dressed Bayside was loaded with money then sometime after midnight I dropped into a bar one of the customers was yawking away to the bartender I ordered Scotch over rice and listened in she phoned the station about an hour ago and said Frank wasn't tight to go somewhere not let her know that was the customer a big moon-faced man with a red neck who had cop written all over it didn't sooner or later bus loose what do you know Frank Scott I told her we take around hey she say Frank was driving that cream colored job of his my heart jumped like a hook trout he sure can't disappear far in that car it was hard to keep the excitement out of my voice pardon me but what color car did you say well I just drove in from LA and I passed a cream colored sedan a few miles back you couldn't miss this one darndest color you ever saw the ornament on the hood is a big pair of dice well the one I saw a woman was driving now and our Frank never lets anyone drive his car well gas and it doesn't know how to drive does she sure she does chief she just got a new convertible only you know she doesn't go out much doesn't drink doesn't wear makeup doesn't do anything much and she sure is a mousy woman she went to bed tonight at 9 o'clock on a Saturday night tell me who is this gas man well he owns this bar a couple of restaurants and he owns a Domino cottage he calls it a dude ranch but it's really a gambling house on important man there he is and he is he's got money but gambler doesn't rate with the local snobs oh Bayside's one of those times cream dealer cream mr some of the oldest families in California live here so money doesn't come not without a pedigree mr it sure don't but money counts with me especially easy money to get something for nothing that's the sweetest thing in life while I finish my drink and went to the phone booth first I looked up Frank gassner's address 16 yuck a drive and I wrote it down and I put through a long distance call to my pal Danny in San Francisco he said he'd meet me in Bayside in a couple of days I left the phone booth the redneck carpet left and the bartender was getting ready to close up I decided not to wait all morning to drop in at 16 yuck a drive so I paid the bartender and was halfway through the door when it jarred me having somebody know my name in that town that particular night I tried to run fast what's your hurry girl don't you want to buy me a drink I don't know you from Adam baby well I know you I know your name right and a serial number oh oh oh I dropped that identification bracelet again in the phone booth I went in right after you you are thank you the catch keeps coming open you ought to have a fit yeah I guess so but every time I lose it it gets back to me somehow well how about my reward like what we could start with a drink well I am sorry I'd love to but I've got a date that hardly comes a surprise with shoulders like yours now what does she have that I don't have only one thing sweetheart and it's not beauty but what she has there's no substitute for hello Mrs. Cassner you forgot to lock the front door why why didn't you go to San Francisco well when I get a feeling I'm not wanted that's when I stick around to find out why there was no reason for you to feel that way yeah maybe I don't know is there anybody else in the house no I sent the maid home for the night now that's good that's real good I just heard a couple of chatty men in a bar talking about a husband who hadn't come home and a wife who'd gone to bed at 9 o'clock I don't see why you've come here to tell me stop stalling the husband's name was Frank Gassner and you're the wife and at 9 30 you were out on the highway driving his car over the cliff I saw it go over remember if I give you $2,000 will you leave town you don't think I'd let a thing like this go for $2,000 but I shouldn't pay you anything at all I haven't done anything so you'll pay me $2,000 for nothing well these circus dancers are peculiar yeah I'll say they are your husband was in that car you murdered him oh how much money do you want now later later first tell me about it everything well come on come on give how did you kill him I I heard him drive into the garage but he didn't come into the house and I found him asleep in the car he'd been drinking past our code yes he often did that I'd been waiting for a chance to kill him so I started the car and closed all the windows and ran a hose from the exhaust pipe in close to his face when I went out later he was dead carbon monoxide I knew it might not look like an accident because he was too drunk to have closed the garage doors so I drove down the highway and well you know the rest you had it all figured out didn't you it wait for a truck driver a woman in distress he pick you up drop you off near home truck drivers always stick to the schedule so he keep right on going fast no time for questions but instead of one of those nights of the road I came along yes you came along how much money do you want you can't pay me off not with cat I'll give you $10,000 and not a cent more you watch don't tell me what you'll do or what you want do from now on you'll do what I say but you can't prove anything I phone the police you saw the cargo over the cliff but you can't prove I was there at your word against mine and you think they'll take yours well they might seem that I'm a stranger except for one thing you didn't have a purse when I picked you up on the road no no it's in the car I forgot it had my initial down it oh please I I must get it back can you get it please please cars probably underwater please well I'll run a plane and fly down there and look probably have to use a boat to get to the car try as soon as you can tomorrow that's a little too soon please 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don't waste money let the rich-field dealer help you select the right gasoline for your car remember every gallon of rich-field gasoline contains Xylene one of the highest octane components known to petroleum science and now we return you to escape that was going to be a goldman for a start Bell Gassner went to the bank next day and got me ten thousand dollars cash then she made out of power of attorney for me the next afternoon I flew down the coast on a rented plane and spotted the car wedged into the rocks right side up under 20 feet of water the next day Bell and I went down in the cabin cruiser and dropped anchor as close to the rocks as we did let the anchor out all the way there all right now take a hitch in the line okay that's it there's no drag now you can't even see the highway from here now but if somebody sees us they'll think we're fishing how are you going to do it well I'll tie a rope around myself you hold on to the rope so the surf doesn't bang me into those rocks all right wait a minute maybe we should swim over to that big rock there and try it from there but I can't swim well I'll swim over and pull you across I'm terribly afraid of water all right all right I'll try it from here then but you hang on to that rope you understand anything happens to me baby then you're really in trouble I fastened the rope around my waist then I waited for a backwash of surf took a deep breath and dope my dive carried me down to the top of the car and I hooked my arm through the front window and held myself against the force of the current and then I looked in it was a world of greenish twilight but I could see everything Frank Gassner's body was floating against the ceiling of the car his arms and legs waving in the current his coat flapping as if it were in a breeze I looked away from the body and tried to find the person hung on to the steering for your wheel and finally saw it on the floor held on by the weight of the flashlight when I went after it the body brushed against me in the kind of a caress I grabbed the purse shoved myself out of the car and struggled at the surface and climbed a bow and you've got it all thank you all the full women you would leave something like this in the car well I guess we should start back yeah you know it's funny now that you got my purse back there's no way to prove I was in Frank's car doesn't that worry you not a bit baby I might refuse to go through with our deal I might revoke that power of attorney no you want I still hold some aces Bell that night I started playing those aces Bell Gassner had never known a man like me only a husband that she'd hated all I had to do was make one move and she fell as hard as any the rest of them and having her crazy about me was the best way to keep her in line better than any threats I didn't have to worry about Bell Gassner not anymore and now I had the world by the tail on a downhill pull when I got back to the Bayview large later that night Danny was waiting so what's the pitch go have a hear of a character named Frank Gassner sure had a place in Reno on last I heard he had a gambling joint here why you working for no his wife huh Gassner's missing he took a powder met with an accident nobody knows yet so she's appointed me manager of the whole works with the power of attorney I want you to front for me Danny why do you want to front well I I don't want to be known as a gambler this is my big chance to live first-class I want everything that goes with it maybe I'll even join the racket club go social yeah you always did have big ideas go how long is this gonna last long enough well suppose this Gassner shows up someday he won't now now wait a minute Danny my hands are clean I didn't do him and I I know what happened to him but I'm the only one who knows yeah yeah sure go okay I'll play along a week later Bell introduced me around and I took over Danny did most of my work and I began living high I even bought a brand-new plane a beautiful low-wing four-place job and I took Bell up the first day you know flying's the only time I'm really myself Bell it's nothing like it I know a little about it oh you do I took lessons for a while Frank was going to buy a plane well how many hours do you have almost 20 oh then you're solo I wasn't very good just never could get the hang of it well come on try take over oh come on why sure it's a cinch well there we go oh that's very good now we're try it turn to the left huh no no not too steep there we go you got the feel of it it's wonderful sure it is you must have had a bad instructor but now baby you've got me the money began rolling in I bought a bachelor house on the beach I joined the racket club it seemed like there was no end to the good things I'd heard about and never known yet slowly little by little a sour note crept in Bell began to get on my nerves she she was so possessive I began to hate the side of it one night at the racket club she was dancing with someone and I was having a drink at the bar hello there girl Devin but well hello I just knew go shoulders what with that handsome face are you tied up tonight or can you buy me that drink sure I can tell me why haven't I seen you around since the first time I've been here since then I'll be here for a few weeks though then I'm going to York for the winter oh I thought this was your home it's one of them daddy's got four houses scattered around the country look mine the drinks it's got time you've got an edge on me I I don't know your name Allison price you know something you're something I've always imagined would happen to me you didn't seem think so that first night no what I had something else on my mind something had to come first so that you could happen and what was that money girl like you can only come along when the man's got money to burn and on the way home that night I was in real trouble where were you I saw you leave with Allison price I told you Bell we were outside talk I warn you if you ever think of leaving me I'll go to the police and tell them we both killed Frank and I mean it kill calm down well I'm not interested in that price girl are you sure as soon as you're legally a widow we will get married that's a promise Bell I thought like a steel trap had closed on me that Bell was dangerous she had to be handled right I planned everything down to the last detail and then waited until one night pretty late yeah I'm Gil they found him what are you talking about found who Gassner Gassner's body's been ways at the bottom of a clip somebody spotted it from the air it must have been an accident yeah calm Mrs. Gassner chief Arnold's not going to tell her till he's poked around no no Danny I'll call her and thanks for letting me know hello Bell well you're not going to bed now you're going to leave town I can't tell you why over the telephone I'll pick you up in 10 minutes no no no wait a minute you better take your car pack a bag and drive out to the airport don't let anyone see you I'll meet you there they found Frank last night Danny called oh that all what a relief I couldn't imagine wait a minute Bell Danny says that Arnold's already figured out from the wreckage that Gassner wasn't driving the car that doesn't mean they'll suspect me and the autopsy shows that he was dead a long time before the car went over the cliff they know it was carbon monoxide no and somebody on your street saw you walking home that night then chief Arnold knows I was blind oh what do I do that's why I ask you to meet me out here you can take my plane I'm no pilot you can do it there you can fly up the coast past Frisco across the state line to Medford, Oregon what shall I do there stay there you'll be out of the state then the one I straighten things out you can come back but I can't do it's the only thing you do Bell now trust me darling it was barely dawn and there wasn't a solar on Bell stayed in a car while I got the plane ready I rolled it out of the hangar and parked it just over a water drain and then I opened the valves to the gasoline tanks and let almost all of it drain out so she'd have only enough fuel for 15 minutes of flight I rolled the plane out on the runway and got it warmed up and then Bell ran across and I helped her climb in I'll just follow this course I've marked it stay over the ocean at least an hour well I don't want you spotted it's safer that way this engine runs like a wristwatch all right oh you're okay honey don't worry about it now depend on me now don't start crying dear you have to get out of here goodbye darling she took off to the west and then flew northwest over the ocean with a trusting fool she was when I looked at my wristwatch driving back to town it was 18 minutes since the plane took off by then it was down somewhere in the ocean out of gas it would sink at once and Bell couldn't swim well it wasn't such a terrible way to die and chief Arnold would figure it this way Bell had heard that Frank's body was found she lost her head and ran because she had murdered him case closed it was a nice day nice day to take Allison swimming or for a drive up the beach when I got to town nothing was open yet except the drugstore so I stopped and bought a paper folded it under my arm and started back to my car and then I spotted chief Arnold coming taught me winning like an ape I wanted what was on the old fat heads my hello chief you look happy about something yeah Devon I arrest you for the murder Frank Gassner what are you nuts what gives you the idea that I had ever seen this before Devon sure that that's my army identification bracelet I haven't seen it for weeks I'm always losing it's handy for us cops that you do this time you lost it in Frank Gassner's car oh say isn't that Allison Price well I'll be darned she's got under your skin too shut up shut up your flat foot beautiful girl and so near so near and yet so far say here's a real spring tonic for baseball fans a new 32-page baseball book 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V. Dixon adapted for radio by Sylvia Richards featured in the cast where Bill Conrad is Gil and Morrison as Bell Francis Cheney as Allison will gear as Arnold Rick Valin as the bartender and Paul Freese as Danny special music was arranged and played by Ivan Dittmar next week you are being whirled through the streets of New Orleans by the gay revelers of Mardi Gras but somewhere in the crowd dressed as a clown is a murderer your murderer from whom there is no escape next week at this time the richfield oil corporation of New York invites you to escape with the story of a man caught up in the night of terror through his complete innocence as John and Gwen Bagney tell it in their exciting story the man who stole the bible be listening goodbye then until this same time next week when once again we offer you escape