 I'm 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 Tonight it's the Whistler's strange story designed for murder The trio in the railroad station cocktail lounge seem typical of many groups awaiting the departures of their trains They were Charles Gilbert, his wife Edna and her close friend Myrene Walker who chatted ceaselessly Voicing her envy at not being able to join Edna on the trip. Myrene loved trains, loved desert vacation resorts In fact, she seemed to love everything Charles on the other hand seemed lost in thought or patient resignation until I wish you weren't so anxious to have me out of town Charles. Now. What do you mean by that? Well, you seem very insistent Another time when the business needs me so how do you like that Myrene? She doesn't want to go thinks the jewelry business will go to pot Thinks her husband plans a rendezvous with another woman For heaven's sake Thank you drink Edna you too Charles. You'll all feel better. I'd feel better if I knew why you can't go along So I told you I'll be busy. Also. I want you to go alone. You'll rest more and you do need Look at her Myrene not able to keep her hand still doodling on the main you and give me that pin Oh, sorry. I'm always doodling. It's a design. I was thinking of Piece of costume jewelry. Well, stop thinking of anything like that And this is going to bother you. I'll tell you exactly what I'm going to be doing dear It was to be a surprise. I'm surprised We talked about a beach house remember I'll leave a while. I remember talking about it Well, I bought one a beautiful place. I'm having it all remodeled inside have to be there Charles you didn't I did oh don't be too grateful because Well, it's mostly your money. Well, I don't care the thought Charles I feel much better about the trip now you do Well, then give me your handkerchief Look at it Myrene torn to shred I am when she's not doodling. She's tearing up her handkerchief She's got to be doing something every minute and she wonders why I want her to rest My dear you're going to relax or I'll know the reason why I'm sorry Finally she leaves on the train doesn't she Charles and you're free You see Myrene to a cab hurry back to the cocktail lounge go directly to a corner booth Slip in beside someone who's been waiting for you. Not too patient. I'm sorry Helen. Oh darling. I am too Sorry that we have to practice reception Kiss me. Oh dear. We really shouldn't be here Here I ordered you a drink I Can use that well at least we'll have some time to get it uninterrupted. You're sure Edna will stay away for a while She's gone for a month Wasn't fun watching your kiss here. Goodbye. Oh A Sunday, I hope it's soon Look, I'll pick you up tomorrow. We'll drive down to the place it later while oh, you'll love it I um, I've been using quite a few of your ideas and redecorating the place It is Well Come on Drive you home She's an exciting girl, isn't she Charles? You have difficulty getting around to saying goodnight to Helen And only the thought of seeing her again the next day finally makes it possible It's quite late when you arrive back home and let yourself into the house You're scarcely inside when It's on. Look at that thing my reed. Yes Little my reed I'd like to come in Charles. I want to talk to you. Oh, of course I'll come straight to the point It wasn't a very pretty sight Charles seeing you kiss that girl right after bidding Edna goodbye. Oh Why Go on make it good Oh, you wouldn't say anything to her about this would you that depends on you I don't suppose you've made any dates for the future with her certainly not You know Charles you weren't kidding when you made that remark about Edna's money You've had it pretty easy since becoming our business manager And now her husband my reed. This girl means nothing. I swear it. I won't see her again Look in a few days you and Arthur drop down to the place it lead a while You'll see all that i'm doing for Edna. I'll take you around the place. We can relax go for a swim I don't swim Charles And when my best friend's husband starts two timing her, I don't feel like relaxing either my reed. I've told you I've heard you and I've told you Charles You stay away from that girl In just 30 seconds the whistler will continue tonight's story Don't be half right use you saffi for example How many amendments in our united states constitution make up the bill of rights? Would you say five? No, that's only half right Brush up on your american government Tell your i and e officer you want to study with the united states armed forces institute you saffi It's easy. It's simple if you don't want to be half right use you saffi And now back to the whistler It's going badly isn't it Charles Myrene knows about your girlfriend Helen She knows that it was more than husbandly concern that prompted you to encourage your wife edna to leave town on the vacation A rest cure for her nervous Myrene has always been edna's best friend And she'll tell her the truth if you don't do something to reassure her that you don't intend to see Helen again You wish you could contact Helen Prevent her from keeping her date with you the following day at the house on lido isle And you're terribly nervous all the time. She's there with you. What is this charlie? You haven't heard anything. I've said. Oh, yes. I have Helen. It's just Well, I'm a little jumpy I thought with your wife out of town Helen. We better talk about that if It isn't as perfect as it seems A friend of edna's myrene walker She knows about us knows what about her. Well, not everything of course. She thinks it's a Casual thing that we're all friends happen to run into one another But but if she continues to see us together, that's right. She'll go red Now Helen we um We've got to forget about it for a while forget about it. Well, you know, I don't mean that exactly You promise me you were going to talk to edna Ask for divorce. I know and I intend to but it can't be right away. Helen I have my reasons Right now. It's important that you leave if we're not seen together Well, right charlie. I won't need a second invitation. Well, no wait a minute. I'll wait as long enough as it is Quite long night. Good. Bye. Helen. Good. Bye She's gone isn't she child And only a few moments later you'll hear her car start up and roar away and you're alone Alone in the house that you were supposed to be remodeling for your wife edna And as the hours of the afternoon drag by into the night you find yourself hating the place And you'll always hate it Unless somehow soon the house can be yours and Helen Just how you're going to bring that about isn't quite clear to you yet. Is it How you'll uh get rid of your wife edna It's on your mind all the next day And that evening as you sit alone at the beach home. You're still thinking about it When suddenly you're aware of a noise outside My ring This is a surprise Hello charlie Snooping around. Were you? Oh, all right Call it that if you want You're wasting your time really. I'm quite alone. Are you of course Come on in my ring I'd like to show you around the place Like a child caught at the cookie jar my ring follows you inside He's nervous ill at ease avoid your gaze as you show her about the house And then finally the two of you end up at the boat land Well, what do you think of it my ring? It's very nice charlie. Do you think adna will like it? No, I don't This isn't the sort of house Edna would like at all It's just doesn't suit her personality. Let's say really. I'm sure there isn't a thing here that would interest you Outside of that unusual painting in the living room. That's rather nice isn't it? Uh impressionistic, I believe they call that sort of thing to me It looked almost like a dragon about to devour something Well, adna likes all three things like that. I bought it especially for her. That's a surprise Oh, really? Just what does that mean? May I be blunt? Please feel free. You didn't buy this house, redness When does Helen move in now see here my ring you see here It's a glamorous place charlie's excited to just match her baby blue eyes You're not fooling me for one minute. You won't fool adna either She's going to know all about this. You're not going to tell her about Helen. Edna's my best friend Irene, I think I've had just about enough of your meddling. Sir charlie, wait just about enough You stay away from me. I ought to ring your neck you little snoop. No charlie As she turns and starts to run myrene trips You'll reach out to grab her but you're too late and she plunges off the end of the boat land You stand there staring down at her struggling in the water She can't swim charlie She'll drown if you don't help her And you don't help her do you charlie? Two hours later, you're back in your house in town Where you're waiting the inevitable call Hello, mr. Gilbert. Yes, this is frank stanley over on east shore one of your neighbors Oh, yes. Yes, mr. stanley. Good morning Uh, we'll call your suitor except to have the devil's own time getting hold of your phone number Up there in town. Oh, what is it something wrong? Well, yeah, a woman drowned off the island last night. What's that? Yeah, fished her out of the water a couple hours ago Tom Jenkins, you know, he runs a gas station said this woman asked directions to your place last night To my place. I thought you'd probably know her Police found a purse on your boat landed identified her as myrene walker my re Good lord, myrene. You do know her? Yes, yes, she's a very dear friend of my wife I'm terribly sorry mr. Gilbert This probably wouldn't have happened if I'd been out there last night. I I'd planned to but business kept me here in town Myrene must have come out to visit us wandered around in the dark. Yeah, that's the way I figured too Well Thank you. Thank you for calling mr. Stanley. I'll get in touch with my wife right away You smile, don't you charles as you hang up the receiver. It's all over now. Myrene is dead You could have saved her but you didn't You couldn't have her telling your wife about Helen, could you? Later that day you send the wire to edmat the resort Informer that you have some bad news Ask her to return immediately And that evening you're back at the house on lido isle As you hurry up the path You're startled to see a light burning in the living room Helen Yes, she's probably paid you a surprise visit Good evening charles Edna found the key under the map so I came on in I've been waiting hours for you, but uh, I don't understand. I sent the telegram only a few hours ago telegram You must have missed me. I left the resort this morning. But but why? Here Perhaps this will explain A letter myrene sent it to me. Myrene. Yes, myrene She told me all about your little Friend helens. Oh now edna. Surely you don't believe it. Myrene wouldn't lie. But edna listen I didn't bother to deny it charles. But you got to let me explain. Let's drop the matter here and now See charles. I've thought it over very carefully. I've decided to forgive you Forgive me. Yes. I'm really much more to blame for helens than you are I don't understand. Perhaps I drove you to her I haven't been a very good wife charles more than a little neglectful Thinking too much about business and not enough about us our home our marriage Well, we haven't been as close in the past few years as we used to be enough. I know. I know. It's my fault I'm willing to forget all this charles But of course you must forget helens Oh, of course. Stick me a drink will you? I could use one. All right I could use one myself Charles yes, you said something about a telegram. Oh Yes, yes Well, bad news i'm afraid It's about myrene What's happened? Well, apparently she came out here last night while I was in town While she was wandering around outside in the dark she fell off the boat landing She What? She drowned in the police recovered her body this morning Myrene Round Easy now darling Oh, it's a terrible shock. I know here. This will help Oh Poor dear if I'd been here, I don't suppose it would have happened At least the lights at the boat landing would have been on and wait a moment You said you were in town. Yes, it's the house. I'll leave it, but you weren't What you weren't at the house in town. I know because I called you from the resort half a dozen times There was no answer But I tell you and where were you last night? Charles, where were you and myrene had her? accident Answer me listen at myrene came she knew about tellin and you were afraid she'd tell me You didn't know she'd already sent me this letter. Did you did you? All right. All right. So I was here and myrene's death wasn't so accidental was it? Wait a minute. Where are you going to the sheriff's office head and a listen I didn't have a thing to do with myrene's death. You've got to believe me. It was an accident. Let the police decide that No, let go No, Edna You're not going to the police Charles Don't look at me like that She's fainted hasn't she child And looking down at edna lying unconscious before you a thought suddenly occurs to you It's a way out, isn't it a way out for you and helen Quickly you pick up the folded sheet of paper the letter myrene wrote to edna and stuff it into your pocket Then you carry edna outside Place her in the car that she drove down Drive it into the garage Close the garage doors leaving the motor running Wait Later that same night you drive edna's body back to town in her car. Put it in the garage Again leave the motor running as you close the garage doors Sorry edna So long All of us are proud of our hometowns and rightly so In this brief moment before we continue with our program We'd like to offer a salute to one of our hometowns in america indianapolis indiana Capital of the state and the great transportation center Indianapolis extensive trade is based on the rich territory which surrounds it large coal fields tremendous deposits of building stone and one of the richest sections of corn and wheat in the world But perhaps one of the best known features of the city to the world at large is the indianapolis speedway It was built in 1909 as a proving ground for automobiles and each memorial day the famous 500 mile races held there From the experience gained in this annual event have come many improvements in automobiles Every time you used your rear vision mirror every time you filled your tank with ethyl gasoline Every time you appreciated the comfort of your improved tires You were giving credit to something that was first used on that speedway Indianapolis has its famous citizens too Benjamin Harrison the 23rd president of the united states called it his hometown So did james wittcomreilly the great hoosier poet And it was the birthplace of general walter beadle smith chief of staff of the american forces in europe during world war two Nearly half a million people live in indianapolis today and they're proud of the part their hometown is played in the building of america And now Back to the whistler You carried it off very well happened to child The role of the worried husband concerned over his wife's whereabouts and your phone call to the police brings quick results An hour later the sheriff calls on you at the house on meadow isle Quietly informs you of your wife's death carbon monoxide in the garage of your home in town You continue to play the part now of the grief-stricken husband And inwardly you're pleased Certain your performance has more than convinced the sheriff And then uh mr. Gilbert You said you were alone down here last night Yes, that's right. I I waited all night for my wife to show up You sure she didn't no, of course not She's never set foot in this house I bought it only a few days ago shortly before she went on her vacation And she Oh, why why why did you ask me? I was just looking at the painting of that dragon Impressionistic stuff, isn't it? Yes, that's right I understand your wife was always drawing quite a doodler There was just just a nervous hazard though I'm sort of wondering about that dragon design Looks kind of familiar It's an original Yeah Sure is different It was a present for my wife She She didn't even get to see it Yeah Maybe you better have a look at this No letter No letter just an envelope To dress to your wife from someone named marine walker We found it in your wife's coat pocket Well, what about her? Turn it over all right, but I don't see I'd say that drawing was the work of a nervous doodler. Wouldn't you mr. Gilbert? And if your wife never set foot in this house How is it the sketch on the back of that envelope is a doodlers copy of that weird dragon painting on the wall? Well, mr. Gilbert featured in tonight's story were bill foreman as the whistler lorraine tuttle jack edwards lowest corbett and jack moils The whistler directed by gordon t hughes with music by wilber hatch is written and produced by joel malone And transmitted overseas by the armed forces radio services The whistler was entirely fictional and all characters portrayed on the whistler are also fictional Any similarities of names or resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental