1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Suspense! 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,000 The George Calouris as star of The Long Shot. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,000 A suspense play produced, edited and directed by William Spear. 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,000 The one thing that puzzles me Raymond is how in the world a man of your intelligence could expect to get away with it. 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Oh you haven't heard the whole story. 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Yeah? 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Well come on let's have it. 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,000 You got your book Miss Andrews? 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Yes sir. 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Okay Raymond, okay. Start from the beginning. 11 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,000 You know of course there's anything you say. 12 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,000 Oh what difference does it make if you found the body? 13 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Nothing I can say now. It's going to matter one way or another. 14 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Yeah well. 15 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Yes I admit it was a long shot. But if you followed the horses as long as I have, you know that once in a while a long shot pays off. 16 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 When it does it pays plenty. 17 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Just like this one would have if it hadn't been for a smart Nevada cop. 18 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 Smart Nevada cop? Oh I don't understand. 19 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Let him talk. Let him talk. 20 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Go on Raymond. 21 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Thanks. 22 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Seems a year. But I guess it's only ten days since I was sitting in the Astor lobby in New York. 23 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,000 I'd had a terrible run of luck at the track. 24 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Started out the season with two thousand dollars and ended up with twenty eight cents. 25 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,000 I was desperate. 26 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Hey give me one. Give me one. 27 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,000 There you are mister. Thank you. 28 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:26,000 I don't know why but I found myself absentmindedly looking through the classified section. 29 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:32,000 All of a sudden a small black square in the help wanted column seemed to come up and hit me right in the eye. 30 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Englishmen will pay one hundred and fifty dollars in expenses to fellow countrymen, preferably Londoner, 31 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:44,000 in return for services as driver and traveling companion on automobile trip to San Francisco. 32 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:49,000 There was a phone number and an address on 76th street. 33 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Come in. 34 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Oh excuse me old chap I'm on the phone. 35 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Hello. You say you're from Devonshire. 36 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Yes I understand. 37 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Have you spent much time in London? 38 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Well frankly I'd much prefer Londoner. 39 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Town's a sort of fetish with me you understand. 40 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Yes I'd probably bore you to death. 41 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,000 However if nothing else turns up I'll call you. 42 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Righto. 43 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Oh step inside. 44 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Thank you. You've come about the advertisement I presume. 45 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Yes. Oh have a chair. 46 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Thanks. You know I couldn't help overhearing your conversation. 47 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Yes. Been plagued all day not a prospect in the lot. 48 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Now what about you? 49 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Well my name's Kelly Raymond born in London in Zegall Lane just off St James's Square August 18th 1902. 50 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,000 I know the town like the inside of my hat. 51 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Really? You're not making this up. 52 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Oh no of course not. 53 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000 How long did you live there? 54 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,000 30 years. 55 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Zegall Lane I'm not sure I know it. 56 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Oh well I suppose Zegall Street is the proper name. 57 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,000 It turns right off Sackville and runs a few squares before it crosses Wheaton Street. 58 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Oh yes yes yes. Of course I place it now. 59 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,000 Well Raymond you seem to be a bit of all right. 60 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Tell me why would you like to drive with me to San Francisco? 61 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Are you at all interested in horse racing? 62 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Sorry old boy my name is Hendricks Walker Hendricks. 63 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 No I'm not interested in horse racing. 64 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,000 No I can't say that I am particularly. 65 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,000 I've been to Edson Towns on a few occasions. 66 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,000 I see well I've become rather fond of it. 67 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:24,000 I might even say financially dependent on it in recent years and with Bay Meadows opening shortly. 68 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Bay Meadows all the time? 69 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 That's a track near San Francisco. 70 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Oh yes I see. Perhaps you wondered about my advertisement. 71 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Well it was a bit unusual. 72 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Yes well fact is I'm extremely depressed with Americans frankly. 73 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Never would have come here if it hadn't been for urgent business in San Francisco. 74 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Naturally I couldn't bear the prospect of making the trip alone. 75 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,000 I hope to find a fellow Britisher in the same predicament. 76 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Oh excuse me a moment will you. 77 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Hello. Oh oh oh yes. 78 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Well I'm frightfully sorry but I've just engaged a man. 79 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,000 I didn't tell him why I had to leave town of course. 80 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:08,000 But there was the small matter of a few bad checks and a cell waiting for me in the city jail if I ran into the wrong people. 81 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:13,000 And thank heaven with all his eccentricity he knew when to stop asking questions. 82 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Yes yes I was sitting pretty. 83 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:25,000 The only thing I was afraid of was death from sheer boredom because from the moment we started out all he could talk about was London. 84 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Have you spent much time in Soho Raymond? 85 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Well I never lived there that's what you mean. 86 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Oh no no no I mean the restaurants and so on. Have you visited them? 87 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Oh well let me see. There's the Moroccan. 88 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 No no no what was it the Algerian cafe in Dean Street. 89 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Oh quite right the Algerian in Dean Street. 90 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Isn't that the place where they sell their wonderful coffee in the little brown packages? 91 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,000 Yes. 92 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,000 Yes I'm sure. There's a big French woman there that we used to call Madame. 93 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Oh quite I recall her now. 94 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Do you remember the sign on the wall behind the counter? 95 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Ah let me see. 96 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Something about anyone caught gambling or playing for money will be kicked into the gutter and not picked up again. 97 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Oh yes. 98 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:06,000 As a matter of fact I remember her clearly now. Yes I saw her there only a short time ago. 99 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Oh it seems to me she died didn't she? 100 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:09,000 Was that a fact? 101 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Oh you probably met her daughter. 102 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Oh slow down a bit will you? Oh there's a sign Cleveland 12 miles. 103 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Oh well we'll spend the night there I think. 104 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Oh good idea. Let's see. 105 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 Oh yes we were talking about Soho. 106 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Yes we were talking about Soho and we continued to talk about it the rest of the way to Cleveland and most of the night in the hotel room. 107 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,000 I began to think the man doubted my authenticity. 108 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,000 He was trying to trip me up. 109 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:37,000 On the way to Chicago the next day we covered Whitechapel, Fleet Street, Bloomsbury and Mayfair. 110 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:43,000 He still hadn't stuck me but I was beginning to feel like a well-thumbed Hitchhiker's Guide by the time we reached Chicago. 111 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,000 We just finished settling down in our hotel room. 112 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,000 You've seen that remark before. 113 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Yes a lot of remarkable men in Covent Garden. 114 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 Of course but I mean the one who does that wonderful balancing act. 115 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:01,000 Oh yes Jim the Porter balances 20 vegetable baskets on his head in the middle of traffic at high noon. 116 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,000 Quite a sight that. 117 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Mr Hendricks I wonder if I might have a small advance on my salary. 118 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Oh I suppose so yes. 119 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,000 It's still rather early and I thought I might look over at the Windy City. 120 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Of course Raymond. 121 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Oh sure let me open my window. 122 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Oh gosh this internal lock is always acting up. 123 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Oh there we are. 124 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Twenty bean off? 125 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Oh fine thanks. 126 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 Say I believe I'll join you. 127 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Stretch the legs a bit eh? 128 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,000 I could see that he was good for a couple more hours of London. 129 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,000 But there was no getting out of it. 130 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Around the corner from the hotel was a place where I was staying. 131 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:48,000 But there was no getting out of it. Around the corner from the hotel was a place where I was reasonably sure of running into some of the racing crowd I'd met during the Arlington season. 132 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,000 I lost no time getting there. 133 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:58,000 Had a club sandwich and at Mr Hendricks request I was expounding scholastically on the difference between Chicago and London bacon when. 134 00:06:58,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Kelly! 135 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Tommy! 136 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Hey good to see you Kelly. 137 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,000 I thought you were in my army. 138 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Well even in a couple of days. How about coming along? 139 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Oh well I'm on my way to San Francisco. 140 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,000 This is Mr Hendricks Tommy DeWitt. 141 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,000 How are you? 142 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:11,000 What do you do? 143 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,000 Hey you can't walk out on me like this Kelly. I got a deal for you. 144 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,000 No. 145 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Yeah. 146 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Oh sure. You like shoes on Mr Hendricks eh? 147 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Oh oh oh rather of course. 148 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Yes yes let's go. 149 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Hey what was your name in that coat of blue? 150 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,000 I'll get right to the point. 151 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,000 We bought us some jockeys. 152 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,000 It's coming up next week at Hylia. 500 will get you 10 grand on a parlay. 153 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,000 But it's got to be 500. 154 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:34,000 Now look you're sure of it. 155 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 I never failed you yet have I? 156 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Oh I've got to drive that stiff to San Francisco. 157 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Oh what if you just walked out? 158 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,000 Well I suppose I could. Yes but the 500. 159 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,000 Has he got any money? 160 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Wait a minute. That's Belize. 161 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Huh? 162 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Tommy you're sure this can't lose? 163 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,000 I'm positive. 164 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Now listen listen. All you have to do is watch that booth where Hendricks is and phone me at the hotel if he leaves. 165 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,000 I'll call you in about five minutes and tell you where to meet me. 166 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,000 I'd remembered about that wallet full of bills in Hendricks Belize back at the hotel. 167 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:12,000 It was easy to slip out the back of the place leaving Tommy watching him from the small window in the door to the bathroom. 168 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,000 In two minutes I was back in our room at the hotel. 169 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:21,000 There it was. Just like we'd left it and to make things even easier he'd forgotten to lock it. 170 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:30,000 There were 680 dollars and 20 dollar bills in the wallet and a sheet of legal looking documents in the portfolio next to it. 171 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:36,000 I glanced at them idly as I pocketed the money. On top was a letter to Hendricks from a law firm in San Francisco. 172 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:42,000 And although this was no place to be caught reading other people's mail I began reading it. 173 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:49,000 It was dated two months ago October the 18th 1934 addressed to Hendricks in Bedford Park London. 174 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:55,000 I wish to thank you for the patience and cooperation you have shown in the matter of your uncle's estate. 175 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Realize our position of course since you are completely unknown personally to either relatives or legal counsel in the United States 176 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:10,000 it has been necessary to establish proof of your right to the estate entirely by documentary evidence. 177 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Happy to state that such proof is now totally established. 178 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Ask that you present yourself with documents requested in our previous letter at our San Francisco offices 179 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:23,000 and trust that final disposition of the estate will be accomplished without further difficulty. 180 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,000 The sign Martin Kelsner, attorney at law. 181 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:31,000 I put the papers back in the beliefs grab my luggage and started to leave. 182 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:42,000 But I didn't leave I stopped with my hand on the door knob and all of a sudden my mind started going a mile a minute. 183 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,000 Birth certificate. 184 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Affidavit from friends. Notarized statement from the Department of Records. 185 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Chief of letters. 186 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Evaluation of estate. 187 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Oh, why have to get a pound. 188 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Yes, this was a long shot. 189 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:04,000 I knew it as I stood there looking down at those papers checking them carefully. 190 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,000 But it paid off a hundred thousand dollars. 191 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Everything, every affidavit and statement. 192 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,000 As a guarantee that their bearer was Walker Hendricks and to tie it up tighter. 193 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:19,000 One of the letters said pictures wouldn't be necessary. 194 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Just a passport. 195 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,000 Yes, it was a long shot. 196 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:28,000 But did you ever see odd like that boy? 197 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Maybe you're right boys. 198 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,000 Oh, I don't know. 199 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,000 Maybe I lost my reason there in the hotel room with a hundred thousand dollars under my nose. 200 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,000 Trying to think a million things through at the same time. 201 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:42,000 Trying to calm down and see it clearly when I knew Hendricks was liable to walk in any minute. 202 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Anyway, I put the papers and the six hundred eighty dollars back in the beliefs 203 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,000 and put a copy of McBowthie's your London and mine on top. 204 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,000 Then I called Tommy Dewitt at the horse's neck told him the Hylia deal was off. 205 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,000 There wasn't any money in the room. 206 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,000 We left Chicago the next morning right on schedule. 207 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Oh, my horse expired. 208 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Expect we'd better stay there tonight, eh? 209 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Oh, you were saying you know the George in Raymond. 210 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Yes, you know, it's not in London, proper. 211 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,000 It's in Southwark on the other side of the river. 212 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Oh, yes, I believe you're right at that. 213 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,000 What would you give for some of their jug hair or their bubbling squeak? 214 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 The rare oldie in the George. 215 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000 I couldn't see a leak anywhere. 216 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,000 All I had to do was pick the right time and place. 217 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Look forty five. 218 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,000 But according to the birth certificate, he was only a year older than I. 219 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,000 And you can't tell how old a man looks by the way he writes a letter. 220 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Yes, I thought of the handwriting too. 221 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:49,000 I made traces of the signatures on the letters and practiced on them every minute I was alone. 222 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Have you been to the cock and Fleet Street? 223 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Have you been there, Raymond? Have you been to the cock? 224 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Eh, what, the cock? 225 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,000 Yes, yes, oh yes, Fleet Street. 226 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,000 I used to go there with a friend of mine, a reporter on the Times. 227 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 It seems there was a waitress there that he was quite fond of, 228 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:15,000 much to the dismay of his parents. 229 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:20,000 Ah, here we are, right on schedule. Salt Lake City, three miles. 230 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Jova, I'll be glad for a wash. That plain country's appalling. 231 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Nice to have some trees for a change. 232 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Yes, not a bad spot at that. 233 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Matter of fact, I have an aunt here, you know. 234 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Huh? An aunt? 235 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,000 Why, how long since you've seen her? 236 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,000 Oh, I've never seen her. Don't intend to. 237 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,000 She's a sister of my mother's, a Marguerite Stoddard. 238 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Thoroughly Americanized, I understand, and probably a crashing bore. 239 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:48,000 But really, old man, aren't you going to look up your dear old aunt now that you're right here in Salt Lake? 240 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:55,000 No, definitely not, definitely not. 241 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:59,000 I managed to get away from Hendricks right after dinner and told him I had a friend to look up. 242 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:04,000 Yes, here was a way of telling about that payoff ahead of time. 243 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:10,000 A laboratory test right here in Salt Lake City with nothing to lose, if it didn't work out. 244 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,000 How do you do? 245 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,000 How do you do? Are you Mrs. Marguerite Stoddard? 246 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:21,000 Yes. 247 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,000 I'm, uh, Walker Hendricks. 248 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Oh, I... I can't believe it. 249 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000 May I come in? 250 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Yes, of course. I'm a little... You must excuse me. 251 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Oh, I understand, Aunt Margaret. 252 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,000 You know, I... I was so hoping it would be you. 253 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,000 I found your address in the phone book, you know. 254 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Please make yourself comfortable. I'll fix some tea. 255 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:44,000 Oh, no, I'd just finished dinner. 256 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Please let me. I'll only be a minute, and somehow I can talk much better over a cup of tea. 257 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,000 Very well. I give in. 258 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,000 You're a pleasant surprise, Walker. 259 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,000 Thanks. 260 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,000 I'd expected you'd be a little more like... 261 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,000 Like what? 262 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Oh, perhaps I'd better not mention it. 263 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,000 Oh, please do. 264 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,000 You know, I... I think it's time we talked these things over. 265 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:10,000 You'll never know how much your Uncle Gerald regretted what he did. 266 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Oh, you mean the will? 267 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,000 Of course not. Long before that. 268 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:15,000 Oh. 269 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,000 Cecilie never told you, I suppose? 270 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,000 No. Oh, no. She never told me. 271 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Your mother was so hurt, it's no wonder. 272 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 If they could only have understood each other better. 273 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:29,000 But she and your Uncle Gerald were as two peas in a pod, Walker. 274 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,000 Neither would give in an inch. 275 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,000 You know, Aunt, she never mentioned her family. 276 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,000 No, I suppose she wouldn't. 277 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:40,000 After all, she loved your father, and Gerald hated him. 278 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000 And so she left? 279 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Yes. Of course you naturally don't know all these things. 280 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 No, no, naturally. 281 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,000 I know Gerald would be the last to admit it, 282 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,000 but I'm sure the will was his stubborn way of giving in to her. 283 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Well, perhaps. 284 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,000 I'm sure of it. 285 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,000 And since I've met you, Walker, 286 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,000 I'm happier than ever it worked out this way. 287 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Now that there's nothing any of us can do for your poor mother and father. 288 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Oh, but I was going to fix tea, wasn't I? 289 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:14,000 You just make yourself comfortable. I'll be right back. 290 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:18,000 If there ever was any doubt in my mind, it disappeared then and there. 291 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,000 I even tried to catch myself up, and she never suspected a thing. 292 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:26,000 They knew absolutely nothing of Cecily Hendricks from the time she left home 293 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,000 until Gerald died, leaving her the hundred grand. 294 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,000 At that point, they made a pretty thorough search, 295 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,000 found both she and her husband had died in England, 296 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,000 and their son Walker was the only heir. 297 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,000 I could have told her I was born in a tower of London, 298 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,000 and I was the only heir to her. 299 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,000 I could have told her I was born in a tower of London, 300 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,000 and she would have believed me. 301 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,000 Yeah, that was it. 302 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,000 And now I even had an identity witness to back me up. 303 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,000 It's 521 miles from Salt Lake to Reno, 304 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,000 but I convinced Hendricks we could make it before stopping. 305 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000 I had a special reason. 306 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,000 We had to hit the desolate section of Middle Nevada about midnight. 307 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,000 As usual, from the time I stepped on the starter that morning, 308 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,000 he was off on another tour of London. 309 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,000 You know, for all the years I've lived in London, 310 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,000 I've never visited Billingsgate. 311 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Oh, you must have passed it. It's right next to the bridge. 312 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:22,000 Oh, you've been there? 313 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,000 You know, there's hardly a spot in London where I haven't been. 314 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,000 If you like fish, you'd be interested. Otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it. 315 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Oh, fascinating district around there, though. 316 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,000 When you get right down to it, killing a man's a pretty tough job. 317 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,000 Even when it's as perfect as this was going to be. 318 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,000 So for once, I was so thankful for London. 319 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:46,000 It gave us something to talk about, and there was so much on my mind 320 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,000 that I might have given myself away in silence. 321 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,000 So I fraddled on like a phonograph. 322 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Yes. I used to go down there as a boy 323 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,000 to watch the Dutch Yield Boats put in and out of the harbour. 324 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,000 I never heard of a Dutch Yield Boat. 325 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,000 Well, I expect most Londoners haven't. 326 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,000 But I've been to that town. It seems that the greenest tourist 327 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,000 knows more about it than the Londoners themselves. 328 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,000 I'd say you've done rather well, old boy. 329 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Well, you know, I've been on my own since I was 14. 330 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,000 Now, take yourself, for example. 331 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Ten to one, you've never been in Feticoke Lane. 332 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:16,000 Perfectly marvellous place. 333 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,000 Regular oriental bazaar, right in the heart of the city. 334 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,000 Is that a fact? 335 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Japs, Chinese, Malayans, everybody shouting at once 336 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,000 and selling something different. 337 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,000 That's rather near Hangman's Dock, isn't it? 338 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,000 Yes. 339 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,000 I'll give you a good sign, will you? 340 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,000 Oh, very well. Slow down a bit. 341 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,000 Wendover, Oasis, well... 342 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Oh, yes, Elko, three miles. 343 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,000 By the way, Raymond, don't you think it might be wiser 344 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,000 to spend the night here? 345 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,000 I thought we decided... 346 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Well, yes, I know, but I've been thinking, 347 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,000 it's rather a long go to Reno. 348 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,000 Well, you can doze in the car, you know. 349 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,000 Yes, but why? We've got lots of time. 350 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Look, here's what we'll do. 351 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,000 Make Reno tonight and take a little extra jaunt 352 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,000 around Lake Tahoe tomorrow. 353 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,000 You won't lose a bit of time, and I'll promise you 354 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,000 that it'll take your breath away. How's that? 355 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,000 Well... 356 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,000 We'll have a quick bite in Elko and move right on. 357 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:06,000 It's only a few hours. 358 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,000 Oh, very well. Although, frankly, Raymond, 359 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,000 I'm enjoying this remissing so much, 360 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,000 I hate to cut the trip short. 361 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,000 Oh, good. Well, that's decided, then, eh? 362 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Left about eight. 363 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,000 At midnight we were somewhere between Winni Makka and Reno, 364 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,000 passing through some barren hills. 365 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,000 I knew the time had come. 366 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,000 My hands began to shake so much that I had to grab the wheel 367 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,000 with both of them. 368 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,000 I fell beneath the cushion for the wrench. 369 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,000 I had to still there. 370 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Finally I held my breath and pulled over on the shoulder. 371 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Who? 372 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Oh, I see. 373 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,000 Oh, what were you stopping for? 374 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Look, look, over there against that cliff. 375 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,000 Where? Oh! 376 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,000 All over. 377 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 He never knew what hit him. 378 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 I turned out the lights of the car 379 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,000 and pulled the body out on the right-hand side. 380 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,000 We hadn't passed the car for hours, 381 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,000 so I wasn't worried much about being seen. 382 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,000 Ah, he was heavy. Pretty heavy. 383 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000 But I managed to carry him over my shoulders 384 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,000 as I walked off into the brush. 385 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,000 There was a small cave on one side of the ravine. 386 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,000 I shoved the body in 387 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,000 and rolled a large rock over the opening. 388 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,000 Started a small landslide which completely covered the hole. 389 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,000 Nobody could possibly find it. 390 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,000 Clouds came back across the moon again 391 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,000 and I got a bit off in my direction 392 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,000 because I ended up on the highway at the top of a rise 393 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,000 some distance ahead of the car. 394 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,000 I just about reached the car 395 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,000 and I saw something that made my stomach feel 396 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,000 as though it was full of ice water. 397 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Well, there, behind my car, 398 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,000 was another one with a seal on the door. 399 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,000 The seal of the Nevada State University 400 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,000 and the seal of the Nevada State Police. 401 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,000 There was nobody in the car. 402 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,000 The officer must have been wandering around 403 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,000 looking for the driver of my car. 404 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,000 I lifted the hood of the engine 405 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,000 and knocked the battery cable off one of the terminals. 406 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000 And then I waited 407 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,000 for a year there in the silence. 408 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,000 And then I almost cried out in relief. 409 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,000 The officer appeared from the other side of the highway. 410 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Hey there! What's the trouble? 411 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,000 I don't know, officer. 412 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,000 He just went dead on me. 413 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Having a look up the road when you arrive. 414 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,000 We usually check on stalled cars in this stretch. 415 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 You say she went dead on you? 416 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,000 Yes, the lights went out, the motor just died. 417 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,000 The lights went out, huh? 418 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,000 You been under the hood? 419 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,000 I wouldn't do much good, I'm afraid. 420 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,000 I'm pretty green at that sort of thing. 421 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:39,000 Let's have a look. 422 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Fine. 423 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,000 All right, get the flashlight on. 424 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Your battery cable's jar loose, brother. 425 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,000 Got a wrench? 426 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Yes. 427 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,000 Right-hand-y, huh? 428 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,000 All right, there you are. 429 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,000 Say, try her now. 430 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,000 You know, that looked pretty simple. 431 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,000 Yeah, it was. 432 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,000 Thanks, thanks ever so much. 433 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,000 That's okay. 434 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Let's see, your name's Hendrix, huh? 435 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,000 Right. 436 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,000 Check the registration. 437 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,000 You're a long way from home, brother. 438 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,000 That's right, yes. 439 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Well, thanks, thanks a lot. 440 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,000 You're welcome, brother. 441 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,000 Good night. 442 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 I was sure he knew nothing. 443 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Too sure, I guess. 444 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,000 I had the passport fake here in San Francisco 445 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:39,000 complete with picture and a perfect imitation of an English visa. 446 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,000 I was all set. 447 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,000 Yet when the time came, I began to waver again. 448 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,000 I wasn't sure about that cop. 449 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,000 What if he sent someone back the next day to look around? 450 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,000 Battery cables just don't jar loose by themselves. 451 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:54,000 For three days I sat in my hotel room here, thinking. 452 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,000 I bought Nevada papers from an out-of-town newspaper stand on Market Street. 453 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,000 No mention of the murder, nothing, nothing. 454 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,000 That's why you were smart. 455 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,000 You'd never have got me if anything had leaked out of the papers 456 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,000 about finding that body. 457 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Well, anyway, when I couldn't stand it any longer, I flipped a coin. 458 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,000 Heads, I'd do it. 459 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Tails, I wouldn't. 460 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000 I came up heads. 461 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Well, you know the rest. 462 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,000 Naturally, I denied it until you spanked on me that the body had been found 463 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,000 and then I knew it was no use. 464 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,000 Well, why don't you say something? 465 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,000 Still think I couldn't carry it off, Kelson? 466 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,000 Well, don't just sit there with a blank look on your faces. 467 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,000 Say something. 468 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Well, Raymond, we were holding you for the murder of Walker Hendricks, 469 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,000 but it appears we were wrong. 470 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,000 What? 471 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 What's the matter with all of you? 472 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 Oh, it was a long shot, Raymond, but it was a pretty good bet. 473 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,000 Maybe that's why both of you gambled on it. 474 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,000 What do you mean, both of you? 475 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,000 You and whoever you bumped off in the vanor. 476 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000 With wh... whoever I... 477 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,000 Hendricks is dead. 478 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:57,000 I know he's dead. 479 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,000 Oh, Hendricks was murdered, all right, but you didn't do it. 480 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,000 What? 481 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,000 You see, he bitched to it, Raymond. 482 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,000 Who be... who... 483 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Your traveling companion, he wasn't Hendricks. 484 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,000 He wasn't even an Englishman. 485 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,000 That's why he was popping you so much about London. 486 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 He was, uh, oh, what do actors call it, 487 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 uh, getting up in his park. 488 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,000 What are you talking about? 489 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,000 I thought you found Hendricks' body in Nevada. 490 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,000 Oh, brother, Hendricks never was in Nevada. 491 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Poor guy never left New York. 492 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,000 The New York police turned up the real Hendricks in the East River 493 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,000 the day after you left town, 494 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:42,000 choperin' for the guy who killed him. 495 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:17,000 This is the Armed Forces Radio Service. 496 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:45,000 The Armed Forces Radio Service. 497 00:24:45,000 --> 00:25:05,000 The Armed Forces Radio Service.