WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000 Autolite and its 96,000 dealers presents Suspense. 00:10.000 --> 00:21.000 Tonight, Autolite brings you a story of murder in the roaring 20s, The Windy City Six, starring 00:21.000 --> 00:30.400 Mr. Fred McMurray and featuring Red Nichols and his five pennies. 00:30.400 --> 00:36.000 Before our play begins, here is a word about Autolite from our good friend, Harlow Wilcox. 00:36.000 --> 00:39.480 Well, hello, Senor Wilcox. 00:39.480 --> 00:43.800 Greetings, Pepito, my popular purveyor of potent and peppery plates. 00:43.800 --> 00:44.800 How goes? 00:44.800 --> 00:45.800 Who knows? 00:45.800 --> 00:49.880 I am too filled with excitement like, oh, like... 00:49.880 --> 00:54.320 Like an Autolite Stayful battery is filled with quick dependable starting power and long 00:54.320 --> 00:55.320 life? 00:55.320 --> 00:56.320 Si, si, si. 00:56.320 --> 00:58.960 Well, why the glee, my merry muchacho? 00:58.960 --> 01:03.160 Could it be your Autolite Stayful, the battery that needs water only three times a year in 01:03.160 --> 01:04.400 normal car use? 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03:17.720 --> 03:20.200 You booted the beat three times in that last set, what is it? 03:20.200 --> 03:25.360 Well every time I slide a glimmer over that skirt at table 13 my ticker skips a beat. 03:25.360 --> 03:26.680 Maybe my sticks caught the fever. 03:26.680 --> 03:30.680 Oh, well those two playboys with her are Bull Hurley and Red Rocks Farrell. 03:30.680 --> 03:33.560 You get ready to whistle again, they want to talk with you. 03:33.560 --> 03:34.560 Talk with me? 03:34.560 --> 03:35.560 That's what they said. 03:35.560 --> 03:37.440 Go on now, keep the customers happy. 03:37.440 --> 03:43.400 Okay, Corny. 03:43.400 --> 03:45.240 Somebody said you wanted to see me. 03:45.240 --> 03:46.880 I guess maybe it was a mistake, so I'll just... 03:46.880 --> 03:47.880 It wasn't no mistake. 03:47.880 --> 03:48.880 Sit down. 03:48.880 --> 03:49.880 Yes, sir. 03:49.880 --> 03:50.880 You see this girl? 03:50.880 --> 03:56.000 Well, to tell you the truth, I don't think I ever noticed her. 03:56.000 --> 03:57.000 How do you do? 03:57.000 --> 03:58.000 Hello. 03:58.000 --> 04:00.680 You've been staring at her all night, and last night, and the night before. 04:00.680 --> 04:03.600 Oh, I might have been looking this way, but I'm nearsighted. 04:03.600 --> 04:06.080 You ought to be in George White's scandals. 04:06.080 --> 04:09.360 Now, let me give it to you straight bad ears. 04:09.360 --> 04:12.840 We're taking care of this girl for a very particular friend. 04:12.840 --> 04:14.720 So lay off her, huh? 04:14.720 --> 04:18.040 Because if you don't, your poor old mother's going to have someplace to take flowers on 04:18.040 --> 04:19.040 Sunday afternoon. 04:19.040 --> 04:20.040 Your grave. 04:20.040 --> 04:44.920 Back in my drums, I tried not to look at the girl, but I could still see her in my mind. 04:44.920 --> 04:45.920 Soft dark hair. 04:45.920 --> 04:47.440 None of that shingled barb stuff. 04:47.440 --> 04:49.200 A real Marcel finger wave. 04:49.200 --> 04:53.400 A warm young face, and lots more that curved down into a fur coat that must have sent somebody 04:53.400 --> 04:56.080 back a whole truckload of upstate scotch. 04:56.080 --> 04:59.120 Once in a while, I sneaked a quick peek, and every time she was looking at me. 04:59.120 --> 05:01.880 And suddenly, I got scared, and I lost up a couple of beats. 05:01.880 --> 05:03.880 I only got some maddie blew up. 05:03.880 --> 05:07.160 But it didn't make much difference then. 05:07.160 --> 05:08.160 Our engagement was over. 05:08.160 --> 05:16.600 Veterans all, we, the Windy City Six broke ranks and went into plan B. 05:16.600 --> 05:17.600 There we are, everybody. 05:17.600 --> 05:18.600 We're all under arrest. 05:18.600 --> 05:19.600 I headed for the kitchen. 05:19.600 --> 05:20.600 That was always the best way out. 05:20.600 --> 05:27.600 In the hallway, a small blonde guy was lifting a couple of shaking hands to his face, and 05:27.600 --> 05:31.400 his eyes grew as large as two hard boiled eggs just before he got it. 05:31.400 --> 05:38.400 When I got out the kitchen door, I could still see that big black haired, vicious looking 05:38.400 --> 05:41.440 guy peering out into the night trying to see who it was that passed him in the hall while 05:41.440 --> 05:42.440 he was busy killing. 05:42.440 --> 05:44.440 I hope he hadn't seen my face. 05:44.440 --> 05:55.040 I ran for a while, and then I slowed down to a walk. 05:55.040 --> 05:59.800 The first few snowflakes of winter were starting to fall, and the world was pulling on that 05:59.800 --> 06:01.360 wonderland slip over. 06:01.360 --> 06:05.000 I turned my Chesterfield collar up around my neck and noticed I was still holding a 06:05.000 --> 06:06.000 pair of drumsticks. 06:06.000 --> 06:11.120 I thought it over for a minute, and I threw them into the darkness beyond the street light. 06:11.120 --> 06:15.560 I made up my mind that from now on I was going to stay out of joints like the high hat. 06:15.560 --> 06:19.560 When I finally got back to my rooming house, there was a surprise in a fur coat waiting 06:19.560 --> 06:21.960 for me sitting on the front stoop. 06:21.960 --> 06:24.960 I tried to ignore her. 06:24.960 --> 06:29.920 You blind or something? 06:29.920 --> 06:38.320 I suppose you get dozens of girls sitting on your step and I waiting for you. 06:38.320 --> 06:39.320 Hey. 06:39.320 --> 06:40.320 Oh. 06:40.320 --> 06:41.320 Were you looking for me? 06:41.320 --> 06:45.280 What do you think I've been sitting out here in the cold for? 06:45.280 --> 06:47.280 Selling subscriptions to the police gazette? 06:47.280 --> 06:48.280 Sit down. 06:48.280 --> 06:50.520 Won't you come inside? 06:50.520 --> 06:52.440 It's safer out here. 06:52.440 --> 06:54.920 I haven't forgotten the way you were looking at me at the high hat. 06:54.920 --> 06:58.400 Say, tell me, how'd you get out of that raid so quick? 06:58.400 --> 06:59.400 How do you think? 06:59.400 --> 07:00.400 I was with Red Rocks Farrell. 07:00.400 --> 07:01.880 They don't touch him. 07:01.880 --> 07:04.040 Oh, yeah, of course. 07:04.040 --> 07:05.040 Mind telling me your name? 07:05.040 --> 07:06.040 Carlye Two E's. 07:06.040 --> 07:07.040 Two E's? 07:07.040 --> 07:08.040 That's pretty. 07:08.040 --> 07:12.680 Tell me, Cora, what do you want with me? 07:12.680 --> 07:14.560 How'd you find my place? 07:14.560 --> 07:16.040 Crazy Jack gave us the address. 07:16.040 --> 07:17.800 Farrell and Hurley sent me to get you. 07:17.800 --> 07:18.800 To get me? 07:18.800 --> 07:20.240 Look, I don't know anything. 07:20.240 --> 07:21.240 I didn't see anything. 07:21.240 --> 07:22.240 I told you I was nearsighted. 07:22.240 --> 07:23.240 2040. 07:23.240 --> 07:24.240 They got a place up in the mountains. 07:24.240 --> 07:25.520 They decided to throw a holiday party. 07:25.520 --> 07:26.520 They want a band. 07:26.520 --> 07:29.960 Isham Jones was busy, so all you guys are being picked up. 07:29.960 --> 07:30.960 I lost my drums. 07:30.960 --> 07:31.960 Don't worry. 07:31.960 --> 07:32.960 They'll get drums. 07:32.960 --> 07:33.960 Let's go. 07:33.960 --> 07:34.960 Are you going with me? 07:34.960 --> 07:37.680 Somebody has to show you the road. 07:37.680 --> 07:38.680 Alone? 07:38.680 --> 07:41.880 Look, we can talk all about it on the way. 07:41.880 --> 07:45.280 And don't get any ideas because I might send for reinforcements. 07:45.280 --> 07:50.640 And these reinforcements will make a Marine landing look like Isadore Duncan's finale. 07:50.640 --> 07:52.280 You got anything brave to say? 07:52.280 --> 07:54.360 I'll bet you I'm ready before you can count to a hundred. 07:54.360 --> 07:55.360 By twos. 07:55.360 --> 08:04.920 I put the chains on my old marmon, buttoned up the icing glass curtains, cracked a bottle 08:04.920 --> 08:06.760 of antifreeze, and we started off. 08:06.760 --> 08:10.480 The snow was swirling down faster than ever and was better than three inches deep by the 08:10.480 --> 08:13.200 time we were 40 miles out of town. 08:13.200 --> 08:16.880 Cora was under a blanket, cuddled up next to me like she meant it, her head on my shoulder. 08:16.880 --> 08:21.680 But it wasn't as romantic as it sounds because under the blanket, Cora was shaking. 08:21.680 --> 08:27.520 And it was the kind of shaking you don't get from being cold, but from being scared. 08:27.520 --> 08:31.360 I should have known then that something was terribly wrong, but I had to learn the hard 08:31.360 --> 08:32.360 way. 08:32.360 --> 08:33.360 Cora? 08:33.360 --> 08:34.360 Huh? 08:34.360 --> 08:40.440 Cora, why do you hang around with bozos like Red Rocks Fell and Bull Hurley for? 08:40.440 --> 08:43.880 For the same reason you play in places like the high hat. 08:43.880 --> 08:46.600 The best offer I got. 08:46.600 --> 08:47.600 Also the worst. 08:47.600 --> 08:50.400 Look, suppose I just kept going now. 08:50.400 --> 08:51.880 Somewhere out west, Chicago maybe. 08:51.880 --> 08:54.480 Would you go with me? 08:54.480 --> 08:55.800 They'd never let us get away with it. 08:55.800 --> 08:57.440 Why do we lose trying? 08:57.440 --> 08:58.440 You don't belong with those guys. 08:58.440 --> 09:01.440 You belong where the air is clean and you only take a drink when you want and love when 09:01.440 --> 09:02.440 you... 09:02.440 --> 09:03.440 Please, don't. 09:03.440 --> 09:04.440 What's the matter? 09:04.440 --> 09:05.440 Did I say something wrong? 09:05.440 --> 09:09.680 Look, why don't you hit me on the head and throw me out and just keep going? 09:09.680 --> 09:10.680 Throw you out? 09:10.680 --> 09:12.680 Of course I wouldn't throw you out to save my life. 09:12.680 --> 09:21.840 Oh, Hem, don't say that. 09:21.840 --> 09:23.920 About an hour later we passed through the town of Norrisburg. 09:23.920 --> 09:26.720 We arrived at a big private estate called Haywill Manning. 09:26.720 --> 09:29.360 The big party was going strong. 09:29.360 --> 09:33.000 The rest of the Windy City six boys had preceded me, all under escort. 09:33.000 --> 09:41.520 The man who answered the door was the one person I never wanted to see again. 09:41.520 --> 09:45.320 When I'd seen him last, he was killing a man at the high hat. 09:45.320 --> 09:48.720 Well, Cora, I see you got him. 09:48.720 --> 09:53.840 You got a pretty smart way of leaving a raid in a hurry, Sonny. 09:53.840 --> 09:55.560 Kitchen door. 09:55.560 --> 09:58.000 I hope nothing happens to your luck. 09:58.000 --> 09:59.000 Kitchen door? 09:59.000 --> 10:01.520 I didn't go out the kitchen door. 10:01.520 --> 10:03.640 I was left by the basement window. 10:03.640 --> 10:06.200 I hope for your sake you're right, Sonny. 10:06.200 --> 10:08.640 Mike, he's a genuine nice guy. 10:08.640 --> 10:13.040 Well, nice guy, I think you'll like this party. 10:13.040 --> 10:17.320 Lots of drinks, lots of girls and lots of happy music. 10:17.320 --> 10:19.160 Oh, sure, sure, I'll do my best. 10:19.160 --> 10:20.400 Did you get my drums? 10:20.400 --> 10:22.080 Don't worry about drums. 10:22.080 --> 10:23.080 We don't have them. 10:23.080 --> 10:25.680 We'll give you a couple of skulls to be. 10:25.680 --> 10:30.080 Now go on, pour yourselves a drink and get warm. 10:30.080 --> 10:32.960 Cora, who is he? 10:32.960 --> 10:33.960 Big Mike Donovan. 10:33.960 --> 10:34.960 This is his place. 10:34.960 --> 10:37.600 He's to the rackets, what Dempsey is to boxing. 10:37.600 --> 10:38.600 Yeah? 10:38.600 --> 10:40.080 Well, I'm going to tell you something about him. 10:40.080 --> 10:42.040 I hear the human life means nothing to him. 10:42.040 --> 10:43.040 That he'd kill anybody. 10:43.040 --> 10:44.040 So you heard it. 10:44.040 --> 10:45.360 Don't go broadcasting it all over the place. 10:45.360 --> 10:46.960 You want to stay alive, don't you? 10:46.960 --> 10:49.200 It's always been one of my cheap aims in life. 10:49.200 --> 11:00.320 Then keep what you know under your hat, you dumb drummer. 11:00.320 --> 11:03.160 The party was big and it was bouncy. 11:03.160 --> 11:06.000 Cora was sitting in a corner looking scared. 11:06.000 --> 11:09.480 Big Mike Donovan, Bull Hurley and Red Rock Ferrell were gathered at the bar drinking 11:09.480 --> 11:14.680 an uncommon amount of liquor and looking our way every time they wanted to laugh. 11:14.680 --> 11:18.080 Herbert Jones began to get nervous and his clarinet developed an off-key squeak. 11:18.080 --> 11:21.760 The three men put down their drinks and came over. 11:21.760 --> 11:23.560 Which one do you think it is, Bull? 11:23.560 --> 11:26.440 I got ten bucks says it's a saxophone player. 11:26.440 --> 11:28.240 He's got a shifty look. 11:28.240 --> 11:31.680 I'll take the bet, because I don't think he's the guy. 11:31.680 --> 11:33.360 Which one would you pick out, Red Rock? 11:33.360 --> 11:34.360 Who else? 11:34.360 --> 11:35.360 The drummer. 11:35.360 --> 11:37.560 Yeah, he's afraid to look at us. 11:37.560 --> 11:39.040 I think you're wrong too. 11:39.040 --> 11:41.920 I put my money on a clarinet player. 11:41.920 --> 11:43.080 It's elementary. 11:43.080 --> 11:45.360 Every time he looks over at us, he shakes. 11:45.360 --> 11:48.280 Every time he shakes, he squeaks on the high notes. 11:48.280 --> 11:51.480 Are these the signs of a guy who don't know nothing? 11:51.480 --> 11:53.360 Maybe you're right, Mike. 11:53.360 --> 11:54.960 Look at him shake now. 11:54.960 --> 11:58.560 Hey, you, with the clarinet. 11:58.560 --> 11:59.560 Yes, Mr. Donovan? 11:59.560 --> 12:00.560 What's your name? 12:00.560 --> 12:01.560 Jones, sir. 12:01.560 --> 12:02.560 Thurber Jones. 12:02.560 --> 12:03.560 Well, Thurber Jones. 12:03.560 --> 12:08.800 Me and Bull and Red Rocks think you're a lousy clarinet player. 12:08.800 --> 12:10.480 I'm doing my best, sir. 12:10.480 --> 12:13.160 We got an idea we can show you how to play it better. 12:13.160 --> 12:15.160 Come with us, sir. 12:15.160 --> 12:18.720 Well, I'll do better, sir, if you'll just... 12:18.720 --> 12:21.920 I said come with us. 12:21.920 --> 12:30.200 Hey, wait a minute. 12:30.200 --> 12:36.240 They walked outside, and that was the last time I ever saw Thurber Jones alive. 12:36.240 --> 12:40.640 The rest of us were as jumpy as cats and we played for two hours without a break. 12:40.640 --> 12:43.520 Everybody was getting stoned, but I didn't dare take a drink. 12:43.520 --> 12:46.200 Then Big Mike called an intermission while they served at the buffet dinner. 12:46.200 --> 12:49.800 But everybody was so drunk that nobody ate much. 12:49.800 --> 12:53.440 Big Mike began to be loud and noisy, and he started waving a gun around, boasting what 12:53.440 --> 12:56.440 a great shot he was. 12:56.440 --> 13:01.240 He kicked open a couple of French windows, and out in the lawn, of all things, stood 13:01.240 --> 13:02.680 a giant snowman. 13:02.680 --> 13:03.680 Just watch, just watch. 13:03.680 --> 13:07.680 I'll blast every lousy button off his lousy chest. 13:07.680 --> 13:10.680 Hey, great shot, Mike. 13:10.680 --> 13:26.120 He did it all right. 13:26.120 --> 13:29.400 Four pieces of coal shattered and vanished into the snow. 13:29.400 --> 13:32.760 Everybody cheered and then turned back to the food and drinks. 13:32.760 --> 13:33.760 Everybody that is but me. 13:33.760 --> 13:40.640 I couldn't take my eyes off the snowman, because running down its crystal white front was... 13:40.640 --> 14:03.600 Red blood. 14:03.600 --> 14:08.800 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Fred McMurray with red nickels and his five pennies in the 14:08.800 --> 14:10.200 Windy City Six. 14:10.200 --> 14:21.120 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 14:21.120 --> 14:30.840 Hey, Senor Wilcox, how about a tortilla? 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15:18.460 --> 15:23.440 It means visit your neighborhood Auto Light battery dealer for an Auto Light staple, the 15:23.440 --> 15:27.220 battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 15:27.220 --> 15:31.200 And remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 15:31.200 --> 15:37.280 Now Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. Fred McMurray in Elliot Lewis's 15:37.280 --> 15:56.040 production of The Windy City Six, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 15:56.040 --> 15:59.340 During the years of the big thirst, homicide was an art. 15:59.340 --> 16:02.480 Sometimes it was Tommy guns against a wall, sometimes it was a concrete overshoe in the 16:02.480 --> 16:05.560 bottom of the East River or maybe an ice pick in the heart. 16:05.560 --> 16:11.040 But out on the snow swept lawn of Big Mike Donovan's mansion that cold December night, 16:11.040 --> 16:16.040 I was looking at the chilliest bit of murder any crazy hooligan ever thought up, a bleeding 16:16.040 --> 16:17.040 snowman. 16:17.040 --> 16:21.520 Only now it wasn't a snowman. 16:21.520 --> 16:24.920 Pam, you better get back inside. 16:24.920 --> 16:27.920 You'll freeze out here. 16:27.920 --> 16:31.000 Yeah, it's Thurber, Cora. 16:31.000 --> 16:32.000 Thurber Jones. 16:32.000 --> 16:35.160 Oh, the poor little guy. 16:35.160 --> 16:36.160 Played the sweetest clarinet. 16:36.160 --> 16:37.160 He used to St. Louis. 16:37.160 --> 16:39.000 He was always loaning money to guys. 16:39.000 --> 16:40.000 He loved everybody. 16:40.000 --> 16:41.000 He never hurt a soul. 16:41.000 --> 16:42.000 Who did it, Ham? 16:42.000 --> 16:43.000 Who did it? 16:43.000 --> 16:44.000 Who else but your playmate, Donovan? 16:44.000 --> 16:45.000 But why, Ham? 16:45.000 --> 16:46.000 Why? 16:46.000 --> 16:47.000 You tell me why. 16:47.000 --> 16:49.000 You helped bring all of us up here, didn't you? 16:49.000 --> 16:50.000 Oh, but not for this. 16:50.000 --> 16:51.760 Believe me, Ham, not for this. 16:51.760 --> 16:54.600 I suppose you don't know that Mike Donovan killed a man in a high hat tonight. 16:54.600 --> 16:57.400 Well, I heard him bragging about it a while ago. 16:57.400 --> 16:59.600 It was somebody who hijacked a truckload of Mike's liquor. 16:59.600 --> 17:01.080 Well, somebody saw him. 17:01.080 --> 17:02.080 And I guess... 17:02.080 --> 17:04.360 I guess he figured it was one of us. 17:04.360 --> 17:05.360 Who saw him? 17:05.360 --> 17:08.360 Well, I guess he thought it was Thurber. 17:08.360 --> 17:09.360 You mean it wasn't? 17:09.360 --> 17:10.360 I don't mean anything. 17:10.360 --> 17:11.360 I'm getting cold. 17:11.360 --> 17:13.360 Why don't you go back inside and join your killers? 17:13.360 --> 17:14.360 Ham. 17:14.360 --> 17:15.360 Go on. 17:15.360 --> 17:17.000 You work this side of the street for all the laughs you're going to get. 17:17.000 --> 17:19.040 Oh, Ham, I'm not the same as they are. 17:19.040 --> 17:22.960 I don't blame you for thinking what you do, but I wish you wouldn't. 17:22.960 --> 17:25.160 All right. 17:25.160 --> 17:27.320 Let's just say the jury's still out on you. 17:27.320 --> 17:30.040 Look how proofed you have not liked them. 17:30.040 --> 17:31.040 Here. 17:31.040 --> 17:32.040 You'll need a fast car. 17:32.040 --> 17:33.040 What are these for? 17:33.040 --> 17:35.040 They're the keys to Mike's car. 17:35.040 --> 17:36.040 It's in the garage. 17:36.040 --> 17:38.800 Take it down to Norrisburg and come back with all the cops you can find. 17:38.800 --> 17:39.800 Hey, Bernie! 17:39.800 --> 17:40.800 That's Mike. 17:40.800 --> 17:41.800 Cora! 17:41.800 --> 17:42.800 That's Mike. 17:42.800 --> 17:43.800 Where are you? 17:43.800 --> 17:44.800 Oh, hurry, please, go. 17:44.800 --> 17:45.800 I want them to get what's coming to them. 17:45.800 --> 17:46.800 I want them to get it good. 17:46.800 --> 17:47.800 Well, but what about you? 17:47.800 --> 17:48.800 Hey, Cora! 17:48.800 --> 17:49.800 Who are you talking about there? 17:49.800 --> 17:50.800 Come on, let's go to the party, baby! 17:50.800 --> 17:51.800 Go on, go on. 17:51.800 --> 17:52.800 Before all of you wind up like Thurber, I'm going to have to get you out of here. 17:52.800 --> 17:53.800 I'm going to have to get you out of here. 17:53.800 --> 18:00.800 I'm going to have to get you out of here. 18:00.800 --> 18:14.880 After she'd gone inside with Mike, I made a beeline for the garages and back. 18:14.880 --> 18:16.640 Just as I got the keys and the ignition, somebody... 18:16.640 --> 18:19.800 In case you don't know it, flea brain, this is Mike Donovan's car. 18:19.800 --> 18:20.800 Oh? 18:20.800 --> 18:23.000 Well, I guess I must have made a mistake. 18:23.000 --> 18:25.160 Hey, take that gun off my head, will you? 18:25.160 --> 18:28.760 Mike hires me to do nothing but sit in the back seat of his car. 18:28.760 --> 18:29.760 Now I might get a raise. 18:29.760 --> 18:33.280 Well, I always like to see somebody get ahead of the gun. 18:33.280 --> 18:36.760 I might get a raise because Mike wouldn't like you to leave his party without first 18:36.760 --> 18:38.640 you telling him what a nice time you had. 18:38.640 --> 18:39.640 Oh, you got me wrong. 18:39.640 --> 18:42.640 I was going to write him a bread and butter letter first thing in the morning, honest. 18:42.640 --> 18:44.120 How about the gun? 18:44.120 --> 18:47.080 Shut up before I shove it through your stinking skull. 18:47.080 --> 18:55.280 I start walking. 18:55.280 --> 18:58.360 The next thing I remember was being kicked through the door of the big house. 18:58.360 --> 19:00.880 The party kept right on whirling. 19:00.880 --> 19:01.880 Nobody paid much attention. 19:01.880 --> 19:08.200 Nobody except the boys in the band and they were beginning to get the idea. 19:08.200 --> 19:11.920 Slowly they stopped playing and then people began to turn around and look. 19:11.920 --> 19:16.840 It reminded me of a ring of faces about to watch a hanging. 19:16.840 --> 19:18.400 What's this all about, Chick? 19:18.400 --> 19:22.400 The creepier tried to lift your car, even had the keys. 19:22.400 --> 19:23.400 Where'd you get them? 19:23.400 --> 19:25.400 I sort of found them. 19:25.400 --> 19:27.000 Hey, you can't do that to one of my boys. 19:27.000 --> 19:28.000 Shut up, you. 19:28.000 --> 19:31.280 I said, where did you get them? 19:31.280 --> 19:37.760 I told you I found them. 19:37.760 --> 19:40.560 Where did you get them? 19:40.560 --> 19:48.120 I didn't care whether I lived or died right then. 19:48.120 --> 19:52.960 And when somebody kicked me twice in the kidneys, the choice was made for me. 19:52.960 --> 19:59.240 I was sure I died because everything went black. 19:59.240 --> 20:08.800 When I came to, I was still lying in the same place. 20:08.800 --> 20:12.280 The party was still going on. 20:12.280 --> 20:15.800 Nobody even looked at me as I staggered to my feet and wiped the blood and the booze 20:15.800 --> 20:19.080 and the glass off the best I could. 20:19.080 --> 20:24.680 I stood there holding onto the bar wondering what to do, wondering what it was all about. 20:24.680 --> 20:27.080 Can you still walk, stupid? 20:27.080 --> 20:29.840 Yeah, yeah, I guess so. 20:29.840 --> 20:32.440 And charge them back to your drums and stop playing. 20:32.440 --> 20:33.440 Okay. 20:33.440 --> 20:35.440 You know something, blockhead? 20:35.440 --> 20:39.120 I didn't want them to stop. 20:39.120 --> 20:48.880 I think Big Mike's got something special in mind for you later. 20:48.880 --> 20:52.160 None of the boys in the band even looked at me when I got back to my drums and picked 20:52.160 --> 20:53.160 up the beat. 20:53.160 --> 20:56.920 Corny and Rip and Tinkle acted as if I were dead already. 20:56.920 --> 21:00.040 We played on through our sheets twice without a break. 21:00.040 --> 21:01.400 None of us dared stop. 21:01.400 --> 21:06.520 We knew how somehow we were playing for our lives. 21:06.520 --> 21:11.800 That's a spline. 21:11.800 --> 21:16.320 That's a spline. 21:16.320 --> 21:18.280 Come on, ivory. 21:18.280 --> 21:19.280 Make that eight. 21:19.280 --> 21:21.000 Five sissy cups on this one. 21:21.000 --> 21:22.000 I'll take it. 21:22.000 --> 21:23.000 Right. 21:23.000 --> 21:26.920 Long about dawn, the party turned into a noisy crap game and nobody paid much attention to 21:26.920 --> 21:28.920 our background music. 21:28.920 --> 21:31.600 I was with them sort of moving in and around. 21:31.600 --> 21:35.000 I saw her whisper something in Bull Hurley's ear and then later she did the same thing 21:35.000 --> 21:36.000 to Red Rocks. 21:36.000 --> 21:41.680 Then she sort of sauntered over by the band, not looking at us, but we all heard what she 21:41.680 --> 21:42.680 said. 21:42.680 --> 21:44.480 Boys, keep your eye on Mike Donovan. 21:44.480 --> 21:47.720 When he goes over to Red Rocks, get ready to move. 21:47.720 --> 21:51.040 It'll be your only chance to get out of here alive. 21:51.040 --> 21:52.040 Make it good. 21:52.040 --> 21:55.600 We all looked at each other and kept right on playing, waiting to see what she was talking 21:55.600 --> 21:56.600 about. 21:56.600 --> 21:59.040 Pretty soon it began to make sense. 21:59.040 --> 22:03.040 You dirty hill, making a pass at my girl. 22:03.040 --> 22:05.320 I made a pass at your girl, Mike. 22:05.320 --> 22:08.320 Just talk to you and Red Rocks both made passes at her. 22:08.320 --> 22:10.560 And I'm going to break both your necks. 22:10.560 --> 22:11.560 Now, wait a minute, Mike. 22:11.560 --> 22:12.560 That's our cue, boys. 22:12.560 --> 22:13.560 Everybody up. 22:13.560 --> 22:14.560 Don't forget your music sheets. 22:14.560 --> 22:15.560 Boys, this way. 22:15.560 --> 22:16.560 Out through this door. 22:16.560 --> 22:17.560 I got it. 22:17.560 --> 22:18.560 Come on. 22:18.560 --> 22:19.560 Phew. 22:19.560 --> 22:20.560 This air feels good. 22:20.560 --> 22:21.560 Yeah, it'll feel better a hundred miles from here. 22:21.560 --> 22:26.560 Where's your car, Ham? 22:26.560 --> 22:28.600 It's right over there, park in front. 22:28.600 --> 22:29.600 Come on, come on. 22:29.600 --> 22:30.600 Yeah, I'll be right with you. 22:30.600 --> 22:31.600 Go ahead. 22:31.600 --> 22:32.600 Cora. 22:32.600 --> 22:33.600 Go on, get out of here. 22:33.600 --> 22:34.600 You'll never have another chance. 22:34.600 --> 22:35.600 I'm not going without you. 22:35.600 --> 22:36.600 Come on, Ham. 22:36.600 --> 22:37.600 Don't just stand there. 22:37.600 --> 22:38.600 I'll be all right. 22:38.600 --> 22:39.600 Yeah, for how long? 22:39.600 --> 22:41.080 One of those ready boys in there will restart shooting his guns again and you might get 22:41.080 --> 22:42.080 in the line of fire. 22:42.080 --> 22:43.080 What if I do? 22:43.080 --> 22:44.080 I deserve it for being so dumb. 22:44.080 --> 22:46.080 Ham, we'll all be killed if you don't move. 22:46.080 --> 22:47.080 Well, Cora? 22:47.080 --> 22:48.080 I'd only get you in trouble. 22:48.080 --> 22:49.080 Yeah, I believe you, but I want to take you anyway. 22:49.080 --> 22:50.080 Ham, for guy's sakes. 22:50.080 --> 22:51.960 Look, lady, tell him you'll come with him, please. 22:51.960 --> 22:55.160 Oh, Ham, I wanted anything but a dumb $35 a week drum player. 22:55.160 --> 22:56.160 Oh, I get it. 22:56.160 --> 22:57.160 Well, that tears it. 22:57.160 --> 22:58.160 I'm washed. 22:58.160 --> 23:01.320 But I never knew how wonderful a dumb $35 a week drum player could be. 23:01.320 --> 23:05.600 I'm coming with you. 23:05.600 --> 23:07.920 We all scrambled over to my marmin and climbed in. 23:07.920 --> 23:11.880 Red and Rip in the back seat, Cora in front, me at the helm and Corny on the crank. 23:11.880 --> 23:14.880 Come on, baby. 23:14.880 --> 23:17.800 What's the matter with it, Ham? 23:17.800 --> 23:18.800 Hell is ten below zero. 23:18.800 --> 23:20.280 Come on, give it another whirl. 23:20.280 --> 23:23.480 For guy's sakes, make it go, Ham. 23:23.480 --> 23:29.240 Oh, no, we can't get stuck here. 23:29.240 --> 23:30.240 Just take it easy. 23:30.240 --> 23:31.240 It'll catch. 23:31.240 --> 23:32.240 Come on, Corny, get in. 23:32.240 --> 23:33.240 What did I tell you? 23:33.240 --> 23:34.240 Like a Swiss watch, huh? 23:34.240 --> 23:35.240 Let's get out of here. 23:35.240 --> 23:36.240 Hang on. 23:36.240 --> 23:37.240 We're off. 23:37.240 --> 23:50.240 It's Mike. 23:50.240 --> 23:51.240 They're coming after us. 23:51.240 --> 23:52.240 Yeah. 23:52.240 --> 23:53.240 Anybody hit? 23:53.240 --> 23:54.240 No, but we're going to have to move faster than this. 23:54.240 --> 23:55.240 But don't worry. 23:55.240 --> 23:56.240 I've got her souped up to where she'll go 50. 23:56.240 --> 23:57.240 Hold on. 23:57.240 --> 24:06.240 By the time we got out under the swamp, we were going to be in trouble. 24:06.240 --> 24:09.360 By the time we got out under the slick, icy road, a whole car full of hooligans were coming 24:09.360 --> 24:10.360 right after us with guns blazing. 24:10.360 --> 24:11.360 The gaining on his hand. 24:11.360 --> 24:14.360 I didn't know anything about guns, but one thing I knew was how to handle my marmot. 24:14.360 --> 24:18.680 He didn't weigh much, and I figured I'd pull into the next curve, climb the coal on, skid 24:18.680 --> 24:20.880 into the snowbank, and bounce off onto the straightaway. 24:20.880 --> 24:24.560 If that heavy rose tried to make it at the same speed and hit the snowback, I was sure 24:24.560 --> 24:25.560 to go right on through. 24:25.560 --> 24:26.560 Ham, look out at the curb. 24:26.560 --> 24:27.560 Where am I, kids? 24:27.560 --> 24:28.560 This is it. 24:28.560 --> 24:50.120 Several courses later, I fluttered an eyelet open and ventured a peak, somewhere I'd miscalculated, 24:50.120 --> 24:53.240 because we were now stacked against a giant tree right on the edge of the road looking 24:53.240 --> 24:54.240 down into the valley. 24:54.240 --> 24:58.800 And down there a hundred feet below us was a pile of something that had once been a rich, 24:58.800 --> 25:01.440 expensive automobile full of rich, cheap thugs. 25:01.440 --> 25:04.600 And around it, no one stirred. 25:04.600 --> 25:11.200 Ham, oh darling, are you all right? 25:11.200 --> 25:12.200 Yeah. 25:12.200 --> 25:14.480 Yeah, I guess so, Cora. 25:14.480 --> 25:15.480 How about you? 25:15.480 --> 25:16.480 I'm all right. 25:16.480 --> 25:18.080 How about the rest of you? 25:18.080 --> 25:20.680 I'm okay, shaking up, that's all. 25:20.680 --> 25:22.000 I busted my lip. 25:22.000 --> 25:23.000 Look. 25:23.000 --> 25:25.520 I'll never put my face back together again. 25:25.520 --> 25:26.520 Yeah. 25:26.520 --> 25:30.520 At least we're all alive, except poor Thurber. 25:30.520 --> 25:35.240 Well, what do you say we get out and take a walk into town? 25:35.240 --> 25:39.280 This is a job for the John Laws. 25:39.280 --> 25:47.600 Well, that's the Cora. 25:47.600 --> 25:50.640 It was the last engagement of the Windy City Six. 25:50.640 --> 25:53.320 We went out with a full arrangement and a big finish. 25:53.320 --> 25:54.920 It was in all the papers. 25:54.920 --> 25:55.920 Maybe you saw the spread. 25:55.920 --> 26:00.440 The boys on the front page, Mike Donovan and company, and Vital Statistics, and Cora and 26:00.440 --> 26:01.920 me and the social columns. 26:01.920 --> 26:03.800 Yeah, we did it. 26:03.800 --> 26:05.520 Complete with old shoes and new rice. 26:05.520 --> 26:13.080 Oh, if you ever happen to get up Norrisburg way on a curve that turns on a steep hillside 26:13.080 --> 26:20.120 with an old scarred tree looking down into the valley, take five and listen. 26:20.120 --> 26:23.880 Maybe you can still hear an old clarinet squeaking on the high notes. 26:23.880 --> 26:27.200 Or if the light's right, maybe you could even catch the pale ghost of a big gunman with 26:27.200 --> 26:40.880 homicide in his eyes looking around, looking around for a drummer who saw him kill. 26:40.880 --> 27:06.040 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 27:06.040 --> 27:08.600 Tonight's star, Mr. Fred McMurray. 27:08.600 --> 27:11.880 Ah, Pepito, that was a great meal. 27:11.880 --> 27:13.560 And what's the matter, Senor Wilcox? 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