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And now for the signal oil company the Whistler strange story the go between the conversation in the park car match the surroundings low quiet ominous in keeping with the isolated low lying strip of marsh and dark trees some miles from any main thoroughfare. The driver of the car didn't look at his companion as he spoke. He was staring at the gun in his hand the flat cold automatic. He kept turning it over as if something were very strange and unfamiliar to him something that he wasn't sure he could use. The girl's eyes weren't on the gun but on him and there was a strange look in her eyes something not at all easy to define love perhaps but quite possibly pity you. You don't want to do it. You don't want to kill Ellen. Of course I don't want to kill my wife. But I realize it's the only thing to do. You do love me don't you. Of course. Hiding in back. Country lane stealing minutes and hours. It isn't very pleasant is it. No. No it isn't. Sometimes at the office when when Ellen comes down there and you have to smile as my secretary and show her in. I don't mind Charles but I do. I want to tell her you're not just my secretary that I love you. Charles could we just go away together forget everything else and live on what Ellen's money isn't everything done pretty well so far I don't know we could manage you can do anything you really want to. Not with the knowledge that we're passing up something as easy as this has been but it hasn't been easy for me but it's been worthwhile I'll admit. It's funny how Ellen came through first time you made that blackmail demand on her not so funny she had a lot to lose if if you if she dies that will fix everything won't it sure everything all her money goes to me good way for it to end perfect if I've actually got the nerve to go through with it Charles I I think we should get back to town yeah back to town back to my dear sweet wife Ellen yes Charles back to town and your wife Ellen you drive the car swiftly recklessly over the narrow country lane until it reaches the main highway then ride in comparative silence all the way to Malibu and Martha's cottage when you drop her off her eyes still have that confused wondering look she's thinking about Ellen isn't she Charles wondering if you'll go through with it realizing what she's thinking gives you an odd sensation you wonder what your secretary Martha Stone would think if she knew what was really on your mind if she knew all the details of your situation with Ellen back in town your own home the lights are still on in the library as you let yourself in and confront Ellen who's been waiting up for you well I I couldn't do it Ellen I I just couldn't kill Martha couldn't do it what's the matter with you did you lose your nerve I don't know I'm not sure it's a matter of nerve alone Ellen to kill well a man doesn't pick up a gun and blast he's got to hate and you don't certainly not that much you're too soft Charles really this has to end Martha can't go on blackmailing me forever I won't go on paying it's a strange position it's funny I fail to see the humor of a Charles you say you love me I do I was decent enough to admit to you that the girl is blackmailing me I I told you why sure you told me Lake Tahoe two years ago wealthy playboy killed mystery woman vanishes you it was an accident are you sorry now that I told you sorry I let you play up to Martha what about our plans Charles your plans for getting rid of her for good I don't know Ellen I I've got to have more time more time to think about what about the fact that you're falling in love with your secretary but I don't count anymore don't talk like a fool Ellen you know that isn't true I've been in love with you from the moment we met I'll always be in love with you I'm sorry I didn't mean it you know I didn't but but darling you say I know what I said that I get Martha out of the way I said I'd kill her for you it's the only way Charles the only way to stop what she's doing to me to us we can't go to the police she'd tell everything she knew you've got to kill her yes yes Ellen I I guess it's the only way to stop Martha and I will tomorrow night I will tonight's $20 signal gasoline book goes to major Robert Hemphill of Hamilton California for this limerick a sprightly old lady said brother use the go farther gas and no other when asked why it was she said it's because I happen to be Whistler mother signal signal gasoline your time will go far with your brother gasoline of course major Hemphill should have said the Whistler's mother but any mother's advice is good advice because mother knows best for over 20 years mother has seen signal gasoline grow more and more famous for mileage and mother also knows that signals efficient performance which makes possible that good mileage also assures you plenty of pickup and power plus quick cold weather starting so next time you need gasoline just remember what the Whistler's mother said with signal the go farther gas you're always ahead well Charles your peculiar position as a go-between and sharer and the blackmail money paid by your wife has brought you to an interesting but grim choice hasn't it you've cultivated your secretary Martha stone to the point where she's in love with you and there've been moments when in spite of what she was doing to your wife Ellen you couldn't help being interested in Martha but there's still the fact that she is a blackmailer and besides if you put her out of the way Ellen will be eternally grateful you can ask anything of her including a loosening of the purse strings a more generous sharing of her wealth by the next night you've decided in Ellen's favor decided to kill Martha you slip the 45 automatic into your pocket leave the house to keep an appointment with your unsuspecting secretary at the garage you realize you've left the house without your overcoat walk back into the house to get it yes darling you just left the house what no I I haven't mentioned the divorce to him yet well I was waiting for for certain things to clear up you stand there in the entry hall stunned bewildered until the full meaning of what you're overhearing penetrates your mind Ellen you're devoted confiding wife she's double crossing you completely isn't she Charles really using you as a go-between talking you into killing your secretary Martha to get her out of the way and at the same time getting a murder charge to hold over you to make her own plans with someone else completely safe you walk toward the open library door listen to Ellen's concluding words darling yes oh yes it'll be perfect oh we'll have no trouble with Charles I'm sure and then then we can go anywhere to the moon together all right Ralph bye yes Ellen Charles you devoted faithful husband so I was to be the goat your passport to a complete and perfect freedom no Charles no you don't understand I'm not stepping stone Alan on the way to the moon for you and this Ralph Ralph Jonas that's it the artist Charles no please it's all over for good all but one thing you'll never get a divorce because of what I know now I'm going to Martha just as I said I would but not to kill her to tell her to go on with it the blackmail I want her to bleed you white your mind spins wildly as you rush through the night and you wait and eat Martha you're scarcely aware of the night around you the signpost flashing past and then as Martha's cottage looms up in the car's headlights you tell yourself that this is where you really belong Charles with Martha no matter what she's done or will do to Ellen she loves you and you hurry inside and rush forward to take her in your arms as she smiles and greeting Martha oh Martha days that follow you're strangely blissfully happy aren't you Charles happy with Martha spend your evenings with her you're not caring what anyone thinks and all the time you revel in the fact that she's taking more and more money from your wife you know Ellen will continue to pay she can't take the chance of Martha telling about the killing at Lake Tahoe showing the snapshot of Ellen and the murdered playboy together you're amused at what's taking place because you finally learned the meaning of a word you'd sometimes wondered about the word is hate isn't it and you're not at all sure that it won't lead to the next step soon murder Martha keeps asking you when you're going to get rid of Ellen doesn't she when everything Ellen has will belong to you to both of you and the idea of killing your wife becomes an increasingly attractive thought and then one afternoon at your office there's a phone call well dad how are you just great boy just great i thought you were still off in the south sea oh got pretty well cocktail party yeah well no Ellen does we she'll probably be there i have a desk loader with work man let's do that in the past few days you've often wondered about Ralph Jonas yes this man that you've never met the man who has taken your wife Ellen from now here's your chance to find out what he's like of course Ellen will be there you're counting on that aren't you child and you wonder what they'll say and do when you walk in the studio is exactly as you pictured it clotted stuffy the huge window overlooking the rooftops of the city as you walk around it you nod to your friends notice the startle expression you notice something else too Ellen isn't there Ned leaves you looking up at a large painting on the wall and hurries off to get you a drink and then as you stand there your eyes wandering over the huge canvas how do you like it but oh well i don't like it either rubbish really any manner paints like that's a halfway i don't know but i do i'm the halfway Ralph Jonas oh i see i don't believe you've ever met that's right we've never met i'm charles gracing you didn't expect me uh frankly no i knew we'd meet sooner or later of course but i was certain it would be in an alley and that you'd probably beat my brains out no no i don't go into that sort of thing you uh have something more ingenious in my path no nothing at all well i can't say i'm disappointed uh we gotta let it go just like that why not well i i don't know i i feel i should do something apologize get your drink invite you to dinner somehow i i feel much better about this whole thing if you punched me in the nose this painting mr. jocs Ralph please this painting is rather interesting oh he thinks oh yes it it uh has uh something that's what one of my critics said he went on to add that that something was an odor and he's right i'm not very good you know uh getting back to your wife charles i uh i don't see her around here no she left half an hour ago in one of her moods again we had a row she's been very upset lately but yes i know see hero man why won't you give her a divorce maybe i'm in love with her oh no really are you in love with them of course i am i want to marry her but i can't wait forever and i don't intend to i that's what we had the row but oh i see i can't understand why she simply doesn't divorce you simple really mental cruelty or something hard water is she afraid of you old man ellen afraid of me well there must be something some reason why she won't sue for divorce why don't you ask her about it i already have she's so vague about it i don't know charles this situation is impossible really i i may have to give up your wife and all her money to money oh oh you think that's it oh my dear fellow i've got more money on my own than i know what to do with you mean from uh this this sort of thing the painting oh of course not it's an inheritance when my father died he left me over a quarter of a million dollars oh i see do you have a ear of jp jonah the fabulous old gentleman a great example of what a man can accomplish in the good old usa he started with a small shop a shoestring you know what he wound up with a factory four blocks square manufacturing shoestrings now you've ruined my little joke oh come on let's get your drink uh no thanks i uh i think i'll be running along but you just got here so i have some things to do well as you wish oh uh by the way yes your wife and i would have lunch tomorrow when you see her would you mind telling her i can't make it you can't help smiling as you leave the studio can you charles realize you feel no bitterness toward ralph jonah it's obvious he knows nothing about the blackmail obvious too that he's becoming tired of waiting for the divorce you'll never give ellen in the days that follow it becomes clear that things aren't going too well between one night as you're about to leave the house you overhear ellen on the phone i know i can work things out but go right ahead ellen i tell us being arrived i was just looking for my five charles i must talk sorry ellen i'm gonna hurry some other time but charles here's my fight now how is ralph these days getting more and more impatient charles we got to talk where are you going uh just out we're going to see martha aren't you and what if i am good night charles please don't you charles as you leave the house and drive downtown to keep your dinner engagement with your friend ned it's almost midnight when you return swing your car into the driveway and you notice that the garage doors are open you drive inside park your car next to ellen's yellow convertible and then as you slip out from behind the wheel it's about time what ellen what are you doing here waiting for you oh we're going out for a drive are we where are we going to martha's place don't be silly i or would you rather i killed you here ellen put that gun away no you pushed me just a little too far charles now i'm going to end things my way come along we're wasting time it will take my car if you don't mind you'll drive well charles i'm waiting what's this all about mind telling me ellen i told you i'm going to kill you listen i want keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road you sound like you've done this before i have charles the lake tauho killing wasn't an accident you think you're going to get away with this i'm sure of it in the morning the police will find you and martha at the cottage dead this gun naturally there'll be questions i'll say i suspected an affair between the two of you that tonight i overheard you quarreling with someone over the phone that you rushed out of the house with a gun they'll believe that i think so will ral i'm sure he will why are you slowing down listen ellen can't we talk this over sensibly i've made up my mind about this charles keep going but ellen i said keep going well suppose suppose i agree to let you have it for us we'll call it quits you you can have your mr chonus and the blackmail will that continue i'll talk to martha she'll do what i say we'll forget the whole thing no i can't risk it i can't risk ral finding out about that affair at lake tauho sorry charles it's no use charles ellen has made up her mind to kill you and you can't talk her out of it but you can act and soon somehow you've got to get the gun away from her then as the car rounds a bend in the road you slam on the brakes caught off guard ellen falls forward strikes her head sharply against the dashboard and then slumps to the floor you ease her back in the seat pick up the gun stare at it then at ellen it's obvious that you can kill her now easily and once you've disposed of the body you'll never have to worry about money again as long as you live it doesn't take long for you to make up your mind does it 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it's done isn't it charles your wife ellen is dead you've buried her in the lonely canyon not far from malibu carefully covered the spot with underbrush and you're certain her body will never be found you return to the car step on the starter and begin your drive to marthus you're anxious to see her tell her that it's over that the future you've planned together is now assured you're reaching your pocket for a cigarette and your hand touches the murder gun the gun you took away from ellen your wife before you killed her and realized that in the excitement of burying ellen you forgot to dispose of the gun at the same time for a moment you're frightened then you realize you could easily drop the gun into an even better hiding place the pacific ocean once you reach martha stone's cottage in malibu you relax and continue your drive to marthus when you arrive you find the cottage in darkness quickly you unlock the front door step inside and then as you turn on the lights forget something what well who are you lieutenant barlow police department police department that's right you thought you might come back remove the body or something if you thought you were still in the clear that's why we had the lights off me but i don't this is sergeant hill who are you my name's greyson charles greyson what's happened come on in the bedroom maybe this will refresh your memory turn on the lights will you sergeant right well what did you come back for oh wait a minute you think a lot of the neighbors saw that yellow convertible you're driving pull away from here an hour ago but i i wasn't driving it my wife she must your wife are you saying she killed martha stone well no well still i yes i suppose she must have where is your wife now greyson at home yeah i suppose so that her car the convertible yes yes it is but you don't know where she is no i don't not exactly i think we better argue down the headquarters talk this over by the way greyson a 45 automatic killed martha stone you wouldn't know anything about that would you of course not how could i know i hope not because once we find the guy with that 45 we found the killer of martha stone incidentally sergeants you better search mr greyson oh it's just routine mr greyson right lieutenant no no wait a minute go ahead sergeant i said frisk him 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 automotive accessories remember if you would like the fun of having your friends hero limerick of yours on the whistler the address to which to send it is the signal oil company los angeles 55 california all limericks become the property of the signal oil company those selected for use on the whistler will be chosen by our advertising representatives on the basis of humor suitability and originality so of course they must be your own composition featured in tonight's story 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