 wait a minute have you heard the weird tales of the whistler the whistler here's the sanitarium Harvey is he still unconscious yes here comes the attendant we're all ready for him Mr. Jackson take his feet Harold oh had to tie him eh yes I had to give him a good one on the chin you'll have to watch him he may try to get away when he comes to don't worry we've got a lot of tough cases here don't let him know who brought him here and don't let him know I had anything to do with it leave everything to us it's a two-hour drive back to the city Donna yeah well I'll phone you tomorrow good if anything happens we'll call you thank you good night Saturday night and again CBS presents the whistler I the whistler know many things or I walk by night I know many strange tales I know many secrets hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows and so I tell you tonight the mysterious tale of death has a thirst the long black car with a handsome man at the wheel of the woman beside him returns to the highway and speeds on through the night the man and woman sits staring ahead lost in thought the man is Harvey Davis the woman Mrs. Victor Jackson wife of the unconscious man recently deposited at the sanitarium I'm sorry I dragged you into this Harvey but I had to have some help and I knew I could depend on you it's all right Donna I only hope it'll do some good Victor never drank a drop while we were in school he didn't drink when we were first married but after his father died and Victor took over the business he started it's a huge concern and I guess he just couldn't take it he's always had an inferiority complex but the thing that hurts me most is that the drinking has completely changed him well he's suspicious of every move I make it chooses me are the most disgraceful things to be of lying to him about everything and being in love with other men countless things of a man what man any man I speak to even you Harvey me well after all if he's going to be suspicious of any man it would logically be me why you've brought most of your troubles to me he knows that I'm as good a victim as any he knows I'm terribly fond of you are you Harvey the first day I met you I said here's a woman a strong woman maybe she'll develop some backbone in my willy-nilly friend Victor that's very nicely put Harvey let's hope the sanitarium does him some good but doesn't I don't know what I'll do don't worry just remember I'll do anything for you thank you Harvey about midnight the black sedan arrives at the Jackson mansion the butler greets Harvey and Donna at the door evening Mrs. Jackson evening Mr. Davis Nick Dr. Saunders is in the library ma'am he's waiting for you Dr. Saunders at this hour what on earth does he want you'd better see him Donna maybe he knows how could he come with me Harvey of course oh good evening Dr. Saunders good evening Donna evening Harvey hello doctor this is quite a surprise I can imagine I am um Harvey and I just been for a little drive I felt I needed some air all right so did you come to see Victor Victor isn't here really but I know where he is you do he's in a cheap dive of a rooming house downtown but that's impossible that's where he always goes well you're wrong this time doctor I took him by force to a sanitarium tonight Harvey help me maybe they can do something for him you told the sanitarium that I was his physician didn't you yes well they called me an hour ago he's escaped what they said he came to and broke away from them I know where he usually goes and I can find him if you want me to find him what are you inferring doctor Donna I know what you've been through with Victor I know what a trial it's been I've tried and you've tried we've all tried everything we could do to make him stop not many women would have put up with what you have we've dragged him through before we probably can do it again I just thought well maybe you'd had enough you do know where he is yes I'm pretty sure I know well then find him I'm determined to cure him if I have to take him to a desert island that's an idea long ocean trip might be the answer I could do that too very well I'll have a talk with him I'll phone you in the morning good night good night not you've done your best I don't know what to do try the desert island why not I'll be it might work-minded you can help your yacht Dr. Sanders may be right or at least it's worth a try I wonder please Harvey it may be the answer I can't get away just now but if you're determined you're welcome to the art oh please I'd feel better if you came along all right Donna I'll go I'll arrange it but he won't want to come we'll take him aboard by force shanghai well all right just let me know when you find him and I'll arrange everything he sure was plastered well leave you alone with him doctor thanks and Hypo would bring him out of this Victor Victor what's going on here who are you get away quiet take it easy Victor huh who are you Doc Saunders doc what you want I want to talk to you Victor it's very important important come on Victor snap out of it okay hey what's the idea but just let me fall wake you up I've got to talk to you hello doc what are you after your head clear I guess so then listen to me you know where you are yeah yeah my old heart you know how you got here no let me see I can't seem to remember well I'll tell you where you're going if you don't pull yourself together where the insane asylum did you say asylum I did I haven't told you this but your great grandfather died insane what that was your father's greatest fear that he would be a victim there's nothing that hastens final mental breakdown more than alcohol insanity are you just telling me that no I can prove it good lord do you want that to happen to you well no no but I I just can't seem to quit you're going away Vic away where I'm sending you on a long voyage with no liquor oh no no you're not no now I'll get hold of myself said that before I can take it or leave it alone if I want to what you're having so far you've gone from bad to worse now you're going where you can't get it but not I can't die I couldn't stand it you'll stand it and like it five to kill you know no I won't be pushed around by anyone I know who's back at this dinner you want to get rid of me asylum yeah yeah that suit her fine she'd like that so she can go around with Harvey and all the others shut up Vic your old planner to get rid of me you don't like me you're taking a trip get rid of me and you all share in the estate well you'll see how much good it'll do but you aren't taking a trip Victor and now here you are Victor several hundred miles at sea and worried too aren't you Victor that talk about insanity really upset you you believe it too don't you what's this am I done do you feel better what is it it's moving I feel dizzy I don't think you're dizzy we're on a boat darling what boat we're on a boat in the middle of the ocean boat doxundas that's what he said a voyage it's his idea Victor everything's going to be all right I know what you're planning to do you're planning to kill me you want to get rid of me want me to die you won't die whose boat is this Harvey's yacht Harvey now I know it's a plot now I know what it's all about you and Harvey that's it don't be ridiculous Victor Harvey can send it to let me have the yacht is he on board yes course you and Harvey and me a prisoner but a perfect set up you don't mean that I've been suspicious of you too all along who else is on board nobody but the captain the crew of four and Harvey and the doctor where you're taking me we're just cruising just cruise you find the right spot right spot for what to dump me overboard no one'll ever know will they and you'll say I jumped over I was washed over the side oh Victor what has happened to you sure like a stranger to me I I just don't know you it doesn't seem possible that you're the man I'm married my darling what's happened to you don't you know if I only did why I'm crazy insane surely you knew that my great-grandfather was insane and my grandfather and undoubtedly my father so why not me you're talking now oh as Dr. Saunders told you what I know oh come now you three are closer than that stop talking such nonsense I won't listen I'm getting out of this cabin I can't stand to be cooped up please stay here for a while Victor please here I brought you some milk please drink it milk oh got a funny color to it and it smells strange what's in it arsenic it's just plain milk Victor now drink it do you like milk Donna yes I love milk and drink it yourself bitch all over my brain trying to poison me that's it I'll get out of here get out Victor please oh what do you want doc how do you feel Victor they're trying to kill me they plan to kill me who Donna and Harvey she just brought me some milk and it had poison in it I can tell by the color I think you're imagining things Victor no no I'm not they want me out of the way I can tell what made you think the milk was poisoned it was a purplish color here is the glass smell it maybe I'm not so crazy I didn't say you were crazy I only want you to stop drinking drink may bring it on doc where would they get poison I'll come now forget it do you know where they get poisoned doc I'll see you later Victor maybe did you send for me doctor yes did you take some milk to Victor yes I did what did you put in it why should I put anything in it Victor think you did you should know me better than that doctor you did put something in it well yes I did some of that red liquid to make him quiet he threw it all over me oh I I'm thoroughly disgusted doctor I I can't go on with him this way he isn't drinking but there's something wrong I decided to give it up with a bad job I I'm going to get a divorce divorce I'm afraid it's too late for that Donna too late why what do you mean well that's something I haven't told you I've been hoping it wouldn't be necessary but after today I've given up all I hope why can I get a divorce you can't get a divorce from an insane person insane good it's been a secret in Victor's family for several generations not even Victor knew it it touched his father ever so lightly but Victor has all the symptoms and the liquor has hastened the crack up I couldn't be certain as long as he was drinking but today I realized the truth I'm bewildered I've never been so shocked in my life I wish you hadn't told me I'm sorry Donna I wanted you to be on your guard he has some strange hallucination about you and Harvey he thinks you're planning to do away with him do away with him with that ridiculous I I've never had such a thought never oh but now I am frightened doctor what about Alice your daughter's only eight years old there are no symptoms and it may miss her entirely but think what this will mean if this gets out about Victor why it may ruin her whole life they understand that that must never happen it must remain a secret that'll be difficult it's going to be hard to handle when that craving returns he will I'll think of something I'll find a way come quickly it's Harvey Davis what's wrong captain on him in his bunk with a cord around his neck good heaven quiet down a come along dead now he's breathing found him just in time it'll be all right in a few minutes Harvey Harvey Harvey what's wrong nothing much Harvey just a little accident you'll be all right what's going on you don't remember no I was just taking a little nap I feel so I'd been choked better tell him Donna come along captain Vinnie liquor aboard captain yes doctor several bottles in the locker in my cabin let's have a look I keep it locked because a hey it's been jammied well what do you know it's all gone I expected that I'll skin those men alive don't don't blame the man captain what do you mean what is that we did something come on what is it man what's wrong with you the boilers blew up we must have hit a reef all three of the men crew down there we've got to abandon I'm a bad captain dead she did a like vote round up the others I'll go below yes captain I can imagine days pass the sun beats down relentlessly on the five survivors in the open boat doctor watches anxiously over the still unconscious captain Donna and Harvey keep a constant eye on Victor who sits alone in the end of the boat staring at the horizon how's the captain still holding his own that's about a bad fall down that companion way I don't think he fell good thing you went down after him running on water I hope we set some land today much water view left in your canteen Donna hey look over there what's that what's the ship no it's land an island grab a North Victor come on doc all around places is barren of food and waters the Sahara desert I'm afraid if we do locate any water it won't be fit to drink there must be water what do you care about water you've got a canteen full of whiskey how much water is left I have some in Dr. Saunders have so I'd better get busy although my experiences on these islands haven't been so good there's a chance to put your chemistry to use Harvey you know the test for lead and zinc yes I'll give you two vials some sodium sulfide tablet and some potassium chromate you know the test one tablet of each and 10 cc's with water mm-hmm a dark precipitate means poison yes I know thanks doc I'll start off and keep a direct line to the other side wherever that is wait a minute Harvey I think I'll go with you oh why oh maybe I can help I'd go with you Harvey but I'd better keep my eye on the captain he's the only one who knows where we are I've got to pull him through that's all right doc I don't need anything I think I'll go anyway all right if you insist come on Harvey wait I'm going to why because I want to we don't need you but I'm coming just please Harvey I like to come all right let's go certainly hot how do you feel Donna all right a fire we come oh 10 miles I should say this is a pretty big island at that and nothing but desert are you sure those last two water holes were poisoned certainly look good to me I'm getting mighty thirsty but a good drinking that whiskey it'll only make you thirsty Harvey can I have a little water I'm sorry Donna but you'll have to suffer it as long as you can please wait suppose we'll ever get out of here I don't know it's all my fault but a shame to get you into such a mess please forgive me Harvey there's nothing to forgive Donna I'd do it again a hundred times over for you would you Harvey yes Victor what a sad thing no one must ever know Harvey promise me if we get out of this promise me you'll never let anyone know no one will ever learn from me I got him I got on earth where'd he get it come on I got him look a lizard a big one I knew we'd find something put that down you can't eat that there must be water around here there must be where do you get that gun out of the captain's locker to take it easy with those shells we may need them yeah maybe I will have a drink no all right I'd you like some water about it there's just enough for one of us to get back and if only one goes back it'll be Donna Donna how chivalrous who's got the water I have come on let's keep moving has water around here they must be and I'm gonna find it Donna if we don't find water he's going to start pleading for what you have no matter how much you raves or pleads don't give it to him he even if he threatens us with a gun telling me drank it all I want you to have the best break out of this hurry Donna hurry well what about it what's a test show cost like all the rest all of lead and zinc and heaven knows what else poison huh worse Jen how about some of that water what water in Donna's canteen there isn't anymore who drank it I did you both did you left none for me you've got your whiskey I can't drink whiskey all the time done pretty well on it for several years I've got to have some water Harvey won't Harvey Harvey Harvey is that all you think about Harvey you should have married Harvey all right about that you sure that water's poison I'm not drinking it and I'm thirsty too maybe you're just waiting for what I don't know but I can imagine a few things we'd better stop here for the night are you very tired Donna better try and get some sleep where you going Victor just going to look around may find something I'm hungry I'm gonna build a fire with this brush don't get too far away I'll be around don't worry keep a close watch on your canteen Donna I have an idea what he's up to I'll try not to sleep but I'm dead tired I'll do my best Harvey if he goes to sleep I'll try to get that gun away from him good night Donna good night Harvey night comes on the fire burns low only a red glow remains Donna in spite of a self-drops off into a sound sleep Victor stares from his place 20 feet away looks about him and crawls silently toward the sleeping Donna put it down Victor I want some water there isn't I think there is you heard what I said you're lying you have got some Victor what is it you've got some water and you won't give me any Harvey I'm wise to you you don't want me to have any you want me to die you're in love with each other you're drunk what if I am in love with Harvey what other Donna you want me out of the way either of you's very thirsty no because you had some water and you've got it out of that pool you're lying to me it's good water you're crazy you sneaked it out of there while I was asleep you tried to make me think it was poison I ought to shoot you both all right Victor if you're so positive go on down and drink out of the pool that gives me an idea I'll just find out if that water is poisoned go drink some of it Harvey certainly not I'll give you 30 seconds poison Victor go ahead drink or I'll shoot no don't do it Harvey then supposing you drink some Donna very well I will Victor it'll killer Donna wait I'll drink it you're a fool Victor but come along this is gonna be very interesting not as much as you think maybe that'll hold you Harvey I'm all right I'm just at my shoulder I hope you're satisfied now that it is poison Victor maybe but you two are getting water for some place all right and over that canteen Donna please Victor that's what I'll take care of it for all of it and if either of you make a move told me I'll shoot both of you good night sleep tight both of you the night slowly fades the chill of dawn creeps in then as the sun comes over the horizon Harvey stirs fretfully opens his eyes and looks for Donna she sits beyond the dead embers of the campfire the hands folded before her staring blankly into space Harvey raises up at the start and moves quickly to a side Victor is sprawled on his back the hilt of a hunting knife protruding from his breast Donna Donna good what's happened to Victor he's dead Harvey dead at night my choice Donna yes it's mine now no one will ever know well I Harvey no I had to stop this on this here we are thank heaven we found you sighted a ship build a signal fire they're waiting for well Victor must have gone crazy in the night and stabbed himself let me see he's dead Harvey how this happened I told you he must have stabbed himself no he no he didn't I saved him it's my knife I got to thinking I did it I crept over and I see when did you do this down it was not more than an hour ago I couldn't help it doctor I couldn't help please there's nothing to fear I didn't want anybody can know because of Alice they won't know you didn't kill him what he's been dead for at least three hours look at his eyes look at his lips and his tongue the swelling of his stomach did you test the pool honey yes every pool we've come to has been heavy in mineral content I warned him but he thought we were lying to him last night he pulled a gun and took Donna's canteen wasn't much in it but it was all we had he's been drinking whiskey so a little water wouldn't satisfy him so he drank from the pool and for Victor I guess it's just as well don't worry Donna no one will ever know will lay doctor there's nothing to tell except Victor Jackson poisoned himself in a bit of extreme thirst no Donna no one will ever know you did your best you tried hard to make things work out somehow fate seems to take things right out of your hands but you know better don't you Harvey you know what happened tell us after Victor took the canteen from Donna and drank the few swallows in it he fell off to sleep then I took the canteen and build it from the poison pool I knew he'd wake up at the great at first and he did but I'm not sorry he's better off and I found I do love Donna and I'll take care of her for the rest of her days there you are from drama to tragedy from tragedy to a beautiful love story wherein they will live happily ever after I know CBS has presented the Whistler original music for this production was composed and conducted by Wilbur Hatch the Whistler stories are written and directed by J. Donald Wilson and originate from Columbia Square in Hollywood next week same time I the Whistler return to tell you the incredible tale of the secret seven night this is the Columbia broadcasting system