 The signal oil program The whistler that whistle is your signal for the signal oil program The whistler and the whistler and I know many things for I walk 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 Yes, friends, it's time for the signal oil program the whistler Rated tops in popularity for a longer period of time than any other West Coast program in radio history and Signal gasoline is tops to tops in quality it takes extra quality, you know to give you extra mileage and Signal is the famous go farther gasoline So look for the signal circle sign in yellow and black that identifies independently operated signal stations from Canada to Mexico And now the whistler strange story Impulse the crowd in the waiting room of the New York Airport hardly noticed the small slender man in a trench coat Standing to the magazine counter The few who gave him a passing glance certainly had no way of guessing what was going through his mind at the moment For his face betrayed no sign of the struggle that raged within him Christopher Daniels professor of English was striving to reach a decision a very important Decision at this moment Christopher Daniels had reached the crossroad. He had a choice to make He could go on living his own Or a new life the life of another man a man whose name was now being called over the public Christopher Daniels shuttered it had all happened so suddenly it seemed like a bad dream Yes, a bad dream that had started that afternoon in his room at the hotel Perhaps it had really started this morning at his home in New Haven That unpleasant scene with his wife Blanche He'd forgotten what it brought it all on money his job It didn't matter really the scenes with Blanche always ended the same way Blanche please we've been all over this time and time again. Yes. Yes. We have Chris And what good has it done? You never think of me really what I gave up to marry you I know I could have had a lot of things Chris But no I had to fall in love with an unambitious English professor Blanche a professor who writes second-rate poetry on this. That's enough. Is it? Every time I've suggested you give up this this see me job of yours. Blanche leave me alone. Please just leave me alone Yes, Chris perhaps it was then the bad dream had started that unpleasant scene with Blanche like so many that had gone on before Scenes that left you empty miserable Sitting in your study oblivious to everything except the vague wish you usually had at times like this The things would somehow straighten themselves out You hadn't heard the doorbell then you saw Blanche and your old friend Neil Baldwin standing in front of you Hello, Chris when Neil this is a surprise. How are you fine? Fine? Well, it's good to see you again sit on thanks only for a minute though Well, let's see. It's been two years hasn't it just about I guess class reunion. Yeah What in the world are you doing here and you haven't you you sound as if this is the end of the world Doesn't seem to think so Blanche a matter of fact, we've practically been neighbors the last couple of years I've been working back and forth between here in Boston for an investment house really. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, but that's all over now. I just stopped in to say goodbye. Goodbye Here we haven't seen you in two years and you're saying goodbye Where are you going? New York right now then to South America South America That's wonderful Neil business trip. No, Chris Guess my business days are over. I had a talk with my doctor last month. It's either take it easy or else So I'm going to take with little money. I'll save good now to South America Or I don't know what's sold and loaf the rest of my life. Well, I'm sorry to hear about your health Neil, but this trip sound wonderful. When are you leaving? Plain leaves late this afternoon. It's afternoon You know, how are you going to New York train? I'll drive you down Well, that's nice of you Chris, but I I couldn't think of it. Oh, no, really I'd like to but Chris you'd be awfully late getting back. Look, I just stay overnight in New York hotel I come back tomorrow. Well, I I don't know if Blanche doesn't mind blanche. I just thought that Well I certainly Chris Go right ahead a Sudden impulse wasn't it Chris? Perhaps you hope that would straighten things out between you and Blanche just getting away from her overnight Quickly you run upstairs to throw a few things in your bag and later as you're driving Neil down the coast toward New York Cigarette Chris. No, thanks. How have things been going for you Chris? Oh Very well, pretty well Look old man. I know it's none of my business, but Anything wrong between you and Blanche wrong. No, really I guess Really You can't very well tell Neil the truth. Can you Chris tell him that long ago you realized you didn't love Blanche anymore But you haven't done anything about it because you're sure she needs you Yes, despite her attitude her obvious annoyance with you. You're certain she loves you needs you But you can't tell me if you want to call it off Because you hardly dare tell yourself You were never one for facing anything like that were you Chris? You're the kind who always hopes things will straighten themselves out somehow that it will all be arranged for you Now you're running away overnight hoping that will do the trick and Later as you park your car in the garage check in at the New York hotel You think of something else that might help the eating place in Greenwich Village you used to like But Neil doesn't seem interested Truth Chris. I'm worn out. Oh Well, that wasn't important really look. I'm not hungry anyway. Why don't you run along your restaurant? I'll just stretch out here on your bed take a nap Well, I could do that I suppose you wouldn't mind course not We have plenty of time plane doesn't leave for another three hours. I need the rest go on run along Chris Oh, uh, you got a cigarette on you. Yeah, yeah, you better leave the pack. I'm all out. I've another pack around somewhere Must be my briefcase. I Good Lord my briefcase. What's the matter my briefcase? I Thought for a moment. I've forgotten it. My tickets papers are in it I just remembered I left it in your car with my luggage Bring it up when you come back. Will you Chris? Oh, of course Neil You leave Neil stretched out comfortably on your bed cigarette smoke curling from his nostrils You go on to that quaint little restaurant in the village But that doesn't seem to help you sit there hardly touching the food or the wine Finally you leave drive back to the hotel park your car and start down the block with Neil's briefcase tucked under your arm It isn't until you're all most of the hotel entrance that you notice the excited crowd milling about the policeman keeping them back What's the matter officer? He's been a fire upstairs in the hotel no one allowed on the seventh floor fire seventh floor Yeah, man burned to death up there must have been spoken in bed. All right now folks. Come on. Let's clear the entrance Burned to death also. Who was it? Who was it the man who was the man named Daniels Christopher Daniels It's a horrible shock isn't it Chris your friend Neil Baldwin burned to death in your hotel room and You stand in the street with Neil's briefcase under your arm staring empty Lee at the window on the seventh floor They all think you're dead. Don't they Chris? Yes, Christopher Daniels is dead Somewhere you find your way back to your car You remember opening the briefcase looking at the papers the ticket is for Bermuda instead of South America Bermuda flight 11 and her anneals papers a reservation at the Crystal Beach Hotel And there's something else to an envelope with money in it a lot of money Mr. Neil Baldwin, please report to the reservation as immediately Mr. Baldwin, please the next thing you know you're at the airport standing in the waiting room by the magazine counter You realize it isn't just a bad dream. It's real after all. Isn't it Chris? You realize to what brought you out here the idea that's gnawed its way into your mind. No No, I can't do it I must be out of my mind. I can't do a thing like this to blanche. I can't Please Mrs. Farley Crane New York, this is flight 11 Bermuda, isn't it? That's right, Mrs. Crane step up, please your name, sir Your name, sir Baldwin Neil Baldwin With the prologue of impulse the signal oil company brings you another strange story by the whistler This you know is the sixth consecutive year that signal oil company has sponsored the whistler a long time for a radio program Yet short compared with the 18 years that signal has served the West However, just as the whistler has grown to be the most popular West Coast radio show signal has grown to Grown from a mere handful of stations serving Southern, California to many hundreds of dealers serving six western states from Canada to Mexico Now obviously there must be good reasons why so many drivers have switched to signal gasoline and there are One important factor of course is good mileage that has made signal famous as the go farther gasoline But equally important is the thing which makes such mileage possible. I mean the extra efficiency today's Signal gasoline coaxes from your motor which naturally means extra performance for your car That's why signal says to be sure of the tops in gasoline quality. There are just two things to remember One it takes extra quality to go farther and two Signal is the famous go farther gasoline Now back to the whistler It's a long way from New Haven to Bermuda isn't it Chris and it's too late to turn back You finally made your decision Or was the decision to assume Neil Baldwin's identity thrust upon you was this the way things were Straightening themselves out like you'd hope for and right now you don't want to turn back No, you've managed to put your wife Blanche out of your mind with the help of Dorothy Gilbert Yes It was on the plane trip to Bermuda that you met her and the two of you hit it off right from the start You sensed instinctively that the two of you had a lot in common Felt a pleasant blow when she smiled Finally, there's the arrival itself the beautiful Green Island of Bermuda looming up in a turquoise sea You check in at the Crystal Beach Hotel register as Neil Baldwin Later in one of the quaint horse drawn series you ride over to Belmont Manor where Dorothy is staying You're excited aren't you Chris like a schoolboy on his first date Expect to see you so soon. I couldn't wait Dorothy. You ready ready. Where are we going across the island? I'm gonna show you something. You'll never believe pink sand pink. Yeah, that sounds wonderful It's got flecks of pink coral all through it the whole beach just below my hotel is that way come on You've got to see it. All right. I'd love to well then come along my here my Carriage awaits without Looks like we're stalled What's the trouble driver? Who's Reginald What's the matter with Reginald don't trouble man. He just likes to catch his breath. Oh Yes, Dorothy, I'd like to stay on here a lot longer than my three weeks vacation. I Think I'd like to stay here a Long time so what I do are they a long time It was like a faint discord a Cloud passing over the Sun when she called you Neil wasn't it Chris? It seemed so unnatural. It made you realize you were really Chris Daniels from New Haven an English professor with a wife named Blanche Yes for a moment Blanche is back in your mind But it's only for a moment She fades out again, and you're busy showing Dorothy Crystal Beach the pink sand making plans for the future That evening you are dancing at the ace of clubs It's a wonderful idea to come in here you like it really ah love it Why didn't you tell me you dance like this? I guess I didn't know I could Neil hmm, you know that man over there near the bar man Which one no the short and heavy-set man seems to be looking at it. I don't know it neither do I And he's probably not looking at us Looking at you Dorothy I don't blame him You're talking mighty pretty mister. Maybe that's because you're looking mighty pretty miss on me Hold me Chris. There's no doubt in your mind about what's happening to you and Dorothy is there It's all very simple. You're certain. She's in love with you, and you're in love with her Yes for the first time in your life. You're in love But the clouds over the Sun again this time it won't go away This whole thing is unfair to Dorothy, isn't it? And you're thinking about Blanche that it's also unfair to her Now you've got to make another decision You're still thinking about it if you take Dorothy back to Belmont Manor then return to your hotel As you walk into the lobby the desk clerk gives you something else to think about Mr. Baldwin, what is it message for you sir came all you were out a message telephone call from New York I took it myself New York just me your wife. Mrs. Baldwin had to expect her sometime in the next few days You hadn't counted on anything like this had you Chris? Neil had never mentioned his wife to you. You had no idea. He was married Neil Baldwin is dead. You're using his name and Mrs. Baldwin will be arriving in a few days You're trembling as you turn away from the desk work start for the stairs and then mr. Baldwin one more thing Yes, I almost forgot to tell you there was a man here earlier than the evening asking about you What do you want? But he didn't say I thought you'd gone over to the ace of clubs. Sorry. What do you look like? Oh, what a new suit of rather short heavy set men as I remember Yes, Chris, it's the short man again the same man who was staring at you tonight But you were dancing with Dorothy at the ace of clubs You're certain. He's following you aren't you perhaps. He's from the police And you wonder if he knows the truth about you You hurry up to your room and there's little sleep for you that night The pressure is building isn't it Chris first the message from Neil's wife then the discovery that you're being followed Yes, the pressure is mounting and the strain on you begins to show the next evening at dinner Neil what's the matter matter? Nothing All evening you've been acting so Strangely you look almost What is it darling? Dorothy You'll have to trust me although you've no reason to I must admit. I do trust you Neil I have a good reason to Being in love with you is a good reason Let's get out of here Dorothy There's that man again at the table near the wall. He seems don't look around Dorothy. Just keep walking Yes, of course If you don't mind, I think I'd better take you back to your hotel Neil you let man is he what's bothering you? He's part of it He's been following you hasn't he? Are you in trouble? Yes, Dorothy. I'm in trouble You take Dorothy back to the Belmont Manor and leave her with that hurt puzzled look in her eyes The look you'd give anything to smooth away Then you go back to your hotel and as you enter the lobby the desk where calls to you Mr. Baldwin, yes, there was another telephone call for you an hour ago from New York for Mrs. Baldwin What did she say that you was able to get clean reservations? She'll arrive tomorrow morning You Turn run blindly out of the hotel into the night But that's no answer is it Chris you got to make a decision and you've got to do it soon They're closing in on you the short heavy set man and Mrs. Baldwin. Yes, and there's Dorothy and Blanche too You walk for hours thinking the whole thing out and then finally you find yourself on the road leading to town and the Belmont Manor Yes, the Belmont Manor and Dorothy Because you finally made your decision you decided to tell Dorothy everything And you do your life with Blanche your unhappiness the madness that sees you when you discovered Neil was dead and that everyone thought it was you How you've struggled with your conscience and how your conscience finally won Yes, you pour out the whole agonized story to Dorothy there on the beach Chris I Like the name better than Neil darling It suits you more I'm going back to Blanche Dorothy Yes, I know she needs me I Should have known better than to think I could run out on my life the running was Nice while it lasted Never forgive myself for what I've done to you. Don't say that Chris Things just didn't work out. That's all Why did I have to destroy the one thing I found you didn't destroy me Chris? I when are you leaving? Right away, I guess I Don't know how I stand with the law Find out when I get back. I suppose I Don't think I've done anything criminal I've just been a fool. What about Mrs. Bowen? I Don't know Dorothy I get back to my room. I'll probably write her a letter telling her what's happened leave Neil's money and papers with it for It's not exactly the brave thing to do. I suppose but I just can't face her Of course I I Guess you'd better be going Dorothy I can't ask you to forget or forgive too much has happened, but I Hope that time will time will help I hope it does You see this is probably all wrong, but I still love you I'll go on loving you Some day things might be different who knows There's still an outside chance for us Chris So I'll be waiting. I love you Dorothy. I Always will my darling All over now isn't it Chris and there's nothing left to do But go back to your hotel write the note to leave for Neil's wife And then buy your ticket back to the United States back to New Haven and Blanche But it's not as easy as it sounds is it? Writing the letter to Mrs. Baldwin is not easy. There's a lot of explaining to do You're so engrossed in the letter that you don't hear the door behind you close softly You don't see the short heavy set man walk silently across the room and stand looking over your shoulder Hello What are you writing a confession? Who are you? Jim Mason private detective. What do you want? I think you know what I want You and I are gonna have a nice long talk brother because right now you're looking an awful lot of trouble right in the eye The whistler will return in just a moment with a strange ending to tonight's story Meantime a message especially for you drivers who have late model cars or you lucky folks who will be getting new ones Just any motor oil won't do you know for today's high efficiency motors? No, sir They need special protection against corrosion wear and carbon if you expect to get the long trouble-free service that was built into them That's why signal oil company brought out signal premium compounded motor oil an improved type Lubricant in which 100% pure paraffin base is fortified with scientific new compounds Inside your motor these compounds go to work doing jobs that regular oil alone cannot do one compound for instance Actually washes out harmful carbon gum and varnish another compound in signal premium Protects costly bearings against corrosion and still other compounds do additional jobs of keeping wear down and performance up That's why signal premium compounded motor oil is your guarantee of a sweeter running motor So for your next oil change stop at a signal station get the improved type oil that does so much more than just lubricate signal premium compounded motor oil And now back to the whistler Well Chris they finally caught up with you your little adventure is it an end Your first decision to use Neil's name run away from home was a bad one wasn't it and your second decision to go back It looks like you made that one a little too late because now no one will ever believe you really were going back There's only one thing to do one thing You know how to do and that's to tell Mason the whole story just as you told it to Dorothy And that's what you do you give Mason the whole story I Know it must sound you can prove you're not Neil Baldwin. Yes, it's a course. I can you're a lucky guy Lucky there that dough he had the 12,000. He told you he'd saved up to retire on Well, he embezzled it from the company. He worked for they shut me down here after him You still have the dough. Yes, it's over there in the briefcase. I haven't touched it good Getting that dough back is all the company's interested in as far as I'm concerned you can go on your way What are you gonna do go back? Blanche needs me the only decent thing I can do, you know, you're not quite out of the woods yet I'm still not convinced you aren't Neil Baldwin Mrs. Baldwin Why didn't you meet me at the airport Chris? Good Lord Blanche I thought you you Thought I was what Blanche. I Thought you you thought I died in that hotel fire Instead of Neil, you thought he'd be here waiting for you with the money. He stole you had it all planned Didn't you you knew he stole it? Didn't you Blanche? And all the time I've been torturing myself Thinking about what I've done to you You know, I'm glad you came down here to meet me Kept me from making an awful mistake All mistake But it doesn't concern you anymore Blanche just me and someone who's waiting for me Over the Let that whistle be your signal for the signal oil program the whistler each Sunday night at this same time brought to you by the signal oil company marketers of signal gasoline and motor oil and fine quality automotive accessories Signal has asked me to remind you to get the most driving pleasure drive at sensible speeds be courteous and obey traffic regulation It may save a life possibly your own Why? Featured in tonight's story where John Biel Betty Lou Gerson and Mary Lansing the whistler was produced by George W. Allen and directed by Gordon T Hughes with story by Bob Reif and music by Wilbur hatch and was transmitted to our troops overseas by the armed forces radio service At this same time next Sunday another strange tale by the whistler Marvin Miller speaking This is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system