 signal signal gasoline yes signal is the new gasoline you can prove is superior the signal oil company and your neighborhood signal dealer bring you another curious story by the whistler tonight death wears a white robe I am the whistler and I know many things for I walked by night I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows yes I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak the cabin high on the slope of Bald Mountain had always been an important part of the marriage of Sam and Leah Wixen a successful marriage on the surface only two people had any reason to think otherwise one was Leah herself and the other was her best friend Suzanne Leah and Sam had met at the cabin their romance had begun there and one bright day in late winter some five years afterwards Suzanne had come to the conclusion it should properly end there Leah could feel something coming when Suzanne engineered the invitation for herself and her husband Harvey for the week yes Leah you wonder what's behind those innocent eyes of Suzanne what's making the wheels were in that sharp little mind as you and she and Sam approach the cabin like it is a crust on the snow today never make it otherwise these no shoes are fun and darling you let Sam carry that he's already carrying yours and his I'm not crippled there's an idea Leah on what how to win men and influence them well if I was a strong rangy type I carry one for you dear you know I'm not athletic strong rangy type definitely has her points I'll stack your snowshoes over in the corner there everything seems to be just as we left it no bears not a bear and I wear the key to the shack oh what a beautiful spot I'm sick just thinking what Harvey and I've missed not coming up here I wanted to have you up several times we've just never been able to work it out there have you said no door stuck a little bit there oh what a dream of a place Sam the fireplace oh wait till Harvey sees that like it I built it with my own two hands perfect did you design it Sam you're possibly gushing Sam's an architect remember of course Leah she likes the fireplace let it go well I don't look like a pile of bleached bones come on now you and Harvey can have this room darling Sam bring Suzanne's bag in here why don't you freshen up so you look utterly ravaged you know that Oh really dear I might pass you a helpful hint you apparently swallowed all your lipstick with that hamburger we ate in town I never worry about makeup darling when you're on the right side of 30 it isn't so important or do you remember I'm taking the sled and gonna get a lot of wood before dark oh well Leah you better show Suzanne where the linen closet is so she can get her bed made up oh can't oh no thanks oh Sam what a cute bell on that back home in Connecticut we always had a bell on the sled that brought in the yule log and I thought it was a cute idea so I put one on this you have this nice idea Sam where do you have to go for wood you sure we can't help oh I think I can manage all right which is about 50 yards from the house kind of inconvenient but it was already built when we bought the property and I haven't gotten around moving it yet well I'll see you girls later I hate to think of Sam having to drive all the way back to the city for Harvey or is it that you hate to think of Harvey coming up here Susie you're not just a teensy bit bored with Harvey are you there aren't any men here now Leah you can skip the teensy you didn't answer me darling don't judge others by yourself you mean I'm married for love you know not money did you well could anybody doubt it looking at Sam why Grant you send the hand oh you've noticed I thought you had dear yes I'm a very lucky girl I've often thought how discouraging it would be to be married to someone who was bald and fat and unimaginative even if it did have gobs of money you're referring to Harvey darling I think I'll be cute in a pudgy sort of way the way does he still take by carboner Leah I might point out that I'm not trying to eat my cake and have it too just what do you mean I'm talking about your red cross activity oh those evenings you donate to good works patronizing the art what are you talking about shall I come to the point or would you like to sense you're not being clever dear I'll try to be more specific I'm referring to the movie type you picked up at Sandra Gillman's the pianist picked up I hardly know him you're actually flushing I can see it clear through that Westmore number 12 I've nothing to hide your taste isn't that it that he is fascinating and talented musically of course but I should think you'd worry a little of show power after six months it has been six months hasn't it you wouldn't dare wouldn't die oh listen Suzanne it's all over believe me there was nothing between I know I was foolish I just didn't realize of the happen oh Sam would understand all of that you're not going to say anything Suzanne you can't Sam would think all kinds of things he wouldn't understand he's got on you wouldn't be there isn't a kind of woman can make a fool yes yes don't you see it at wreck our marriage you wouldn't do that that's Suzanne you couldn't gain anything by it we've been friends too long for that you can get off your knees now of course you do you always you're just trying to get back at me you've been waiting for a chance like this ever since Sam and I were married you'd love him don't you you've been in love with him for I didn't say that it's true and you think this is your opportunity but you won't tell Sam what you found out you won't you understand my darling you're so terribly dramatic how could you stop I don't know but I will I will if I have to have to want me there's just the two of us here and I'm the strong range the athletic tie remember that new car you've been waiting for is apparently still quite a ways off but for the fun of improved driving performance there's no need to 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this week to any of the friendly stations displaying signals familiar yellow and black circle sign and say fill her up with new signal gasoline and now back to the whistler yeah you thought you'd manage the musician pretty cleverly didn't you and he'd seem so important to you for a while but now with the prospect of losing Sam staring you in the face it's different you'll walk out you're sure of it you know him too well Suzanne holds you in the palm of her hand Leah the moment she chooses to open her mouth Sam is gone forever with him goes everything money social position friends everything you're calculating mind bargain for when you married him all through dinner you wait for the axe to fall but nothing happens you can hardly bring yourself to look at her that self-satisfied half smile on her face makes you want to scream and that night when you and Sam are finally alone then finally go to bed yes lights just went out good now perhaps you can let me in on it and what's been going on around here you two have been at each other's throats all day we've always been frank with each other to Frank I'd say I was so full of daggers for a while this afternoon I can hardly see what I was doing come on what is it well Suzanne's all wrapped up in music you know and particularly Chopin well the pianist we all admire that she met personally the other day and well we thought she wasn't being quite fair to Harvey you mean it was nothing serious of course well Sam you mustn't be the weirdest to anyone if either she or Harvey ever found out I don't know what I do it's all very silly it isn't silly it's darn serious but you don't understand Sam it was really nothing I don't care how insignificant it is if people are talking about it it's serious I can hardly believe she'd do a thing like that we just isn't like Suzanne Harvey's a little jealous well what's wrong with being jealous of your wife he's got a right to be jealous I've got a right to be jealous and heaven you're not like that you mean you wouldn't understand Leah just don't ever give me any cause don't ever let me down that way I'd I'd what scares me I I'd probably do something terrible just remember that leave don't ever give me a reason promise me pretty sure of yourself aren't you Leah that was a dangerous step to take but it's your word against hers after all perhaps you have something else in mind something involving the day and a half the two of you will be alone in the cabin while Sam goes back to the city to pick up Harvey they say the best defense is a first-class attack maybe that's why you seem to have regained a little of your old self-confidence the next morning as you and Suzanne go out to the shed for firewood an hour after he's gone well don't stand there Leah help me with the door take your time we've got a day and a half wonderful what oh you've got the strength of a horse pretty this morning aren't you I'm delirious with excitement a day and a half all to ourselves a grim prospect well are you going to stand in a corner and wrap the dyes or are we going to get some wood all right I don't see why you're fussing so about wood there's enough in the box in the house to last a couple of hours can understand why Sam had this wood stack clear up to the rafters the top oh here's one that's loose what are you doing look out don't be a fool you'll kill yourself do you want that mountain of lungs to crash down don't be ridiculous centerpieces in the whole pile will fall nonsense watch out nothing happened the Lord looks out for drunks and fools darling how these two wait a minute that just about does it I've taken about all I'm going to take from you're right you want it straight from the shoulder and I'll give it to you that way I said you're a no good little husband I'll say it again you've been taking Sam for a ride now I'm going to make sure he knows all about it that good enough for you you're bluffing you'll see whether or not I'm bluffing you're so jealous of Sam and me you can't see straight I can't say I blame you staring at that moon face husband of yours across the breakfast table every morning you're so miserable yourself you can't stand happiness in anyone else but you're not going to get anywhere Sam would never believe you in a million years I'm not asking him to believe me dear what do you mean Sam ought to recognize your handwriting in your personal stationery readily enough you should have known better Leah but you weren't quite yourself at the time were you talking a letter dated September 18 about you and Arturo meeting in the lobby of a metropole at eight o'clock where if it don't ever mind where it is I have it where did you get I bought it Arturo was quite attached to it but he had his prize oh you didn't really think I wouldn't come prepared did you Leah dear how can you be put down that act you hear me put down that I'll kill you no you don't I'm the strong rangey type remember strong as a hawk oh get up from there you're not hurt I'm going out for a walk so where the air is clean it's a blind frustrated hatred inside you that would make you capable of anything even murder all that day while Suzanne is out walking you sit alone in the living room in front of the big fireplace staring into the embers and thinking the two of you alone in a cabin it would have to be perfect the slightest indication that it wasn't an accident and you'd be done for there simply wouldn't be any other suspects yes Leah it would have to be perfect or it couldn't be at all perfect when did you get back I made it great to do about slamming the door and throwing off my snowshoes but you didn't budge an inch but on your mind nothing as it should be where have you been over to the west open deck you should have stayed longer oh you might have been caught in the storm storm don't be silly dear the sun was so bright on that snow you could hardly look at it the radio said we're in for a bad storm sometime tonight just turned it off that raises a delightful possibility what's that salmon Harvey may be delayed dear you and I may have several more charming days together here on the mountain how's the food situation does plenty that's good speaking of food what about dinner I haven't thought about it coffee on the stove would you join me in a cup thanks no shame to waste that gorgeous fire isn't it dear it's our tour over only here you stop it you've made yourself perfectly clear I know what you're going to do and I know how you're going to do it there's nothing more to be said I can't stand this jabbing and picking any longer I can't sit on second thought I'll make my own coffee it's by midnight the temperature outside the cabin drops to 20 below zero and at 1 30 in the morning the blizzard sweeps in from the north the mercury falls another 10 degrees you're forced to cooperate with a now aren't you Leo the two of you picked turns all night getting out of bed to put wood on the fire tonight seems endless but morning finally comes a raw gray morning with that stabbing north wind still piling the drift higher and higher up you finally made it I thought you were never going to get up did you happen to look out your window this morning we're snowed in my perfidious friend all snug and cozy it's nothing a matter of looking particularly stupid this morning Suzanne if I didn't know you better I think you had a hangover what's the matter with you why are you something around there in the doorway yeah I'm blind what come out here in the light look out for the table Suzanne were you crazy enough to grab without your sunglasses yesterday you stayed out all day the sun glaring on the snow Suzanne snow blind snow blind only temporary isn't it today not more than two days Harvey will be here today Harvey won't be here today probably not tomorrow either you could see you'd know why the road is locked the storms getting worse no I think you'll have to rely on me darling to be your seeing I have to come out of your room sometime you're free to death in there you have a large mouth Suzanne but it doesn't extend as far as you've done that list real cool you'd like to see me like this you think it's funny it will go away though you said so yourself I'll be alright tomorrow I'll be able to see tomorrow I'm not afraid of you Leah afraid of me well why should you be let me guide you to a chair but the fire darling don't touch me I can get there I can I can feel my way better let me help you darling no I'll just sit right here now what are we going to have for dinner how about a couple of nice poached eggs on toast and a steaming cup of coffee I don't want anything I don't want any well you haven't eaten since last night here you've got to have food look you're shivering you're cold darling couldn't you possibly force just to swallow this hot coffee down do you world of good here good I'll take the coffee that's better here I better warm it up from the kitchen cabin until the day there are all kinds of interesting things in the cellar Sam's really quite a trap you know all his equipment there scrapers for the skins the frames the traps there you are dear I put sugar in it and a big box of some kind of arsenic he uses to cure the hide arsenic gets rid of the vermin come on dear drink up do you good oh oh Suzanne your prices Leah that would be too crude wouldn't it it would never work with inquisitive examiners and all have seen you rejected poison at the start when you first began thinking about killing her you're just playing with her like a cat with a mouse you thought of a better way haven't you a perfect foolproof way you've gone you've left me I'm right here darling oh I didn't answer Leah I've been thinking of what of you of me of our beautiful Leah I want to tell you something Leah you know I'm your friend of course of course you're my dear dear friend and Sam's too especially Sam is not what you think oh spare me darling I'm not interested in listening to you unburden your soul even when there's no other entertainment available I want you to know there's nothing I want to hear from you I'm getting our coats and snowshoes our coats and snowshoes we have to get another load of woods unless you want to sit in here and freeze I can't go outside I can't see and I can't pull that loaded slay alone look at along I'll guide you you fall down out there you won't hurt yourself snow is soft very soft Suzanne even gets warm after a while there's your coat and mittens and scarf your head I won't listen to that wind we couldn't find a wedge in that bledger I could get to that woodshed blindfold come on put on these things but you will you will know I know hey now put on these me no oh yeah you hold my arm you won't let go with me I'll hold your arm and when we get outside you can hold on to the rope ready come on then so much farther than before play up to the shed and load it me to the shed so I can stand out of the wind whistler will return with a strange 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itself let it's quicker starting it's faster pickup it's higher anti-knock and longer mileage demonstrate in your car why new signal actually is the new post war gasoline you can prove is superior now back to the whistler that one was perfectly I can't miss you had an argument and she walked out of the house said she was going to see their village that she couldn't stand you anymore you tried to tell her she'd never make it but she insisted on leaving and that's all you know yes it's perfect no weapons no blows or marks just her frozen body 200 yards from the house far enough so you couldn't have heard her over the store you can't hear her now anymore as you pile wood into the sled she's probably staggered further in the wrong direction you need plenty of Woodley and make it a full load enough to carry you through tomorrow there you are pilot I one from the side one from the end remember what Suzanne said about pulling one out from the center nine o'clock the whistler will bring you 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