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Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. MacDonald Carey in a story based on fact.

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Tonight's presentation of...

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Suspense.

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Tonight, with names and places changed, Auto Light presents the true story of a man who,

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to all intents and purposes, disappeared from the face of the earth.

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The dramatization is called The Missing Person, our star Mr. MacDonald Carey.

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And now with The Missing Person and the performance of Mr. MacDonald Carey.

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Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in...

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...suspense.

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At approximately 7.30 p.m. the Thursday night of March 10, 1948,

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Joseph Evner, at the time 38 years of age, said goodbye to his wife Martha

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and left his home at 1210 East Bethany Road in Burbank, California.

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He drove a light gray sedan, license plate 702 R3-228,

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over Cahuenga Pass to downtown Los Angeles.

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His destination? The Civic Auditorium.

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Joseph Evner is a musician, first violinist and concertmaster with the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra.

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He was on his way to play in a concert.

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Evner arrived at the auditorium a little after 8 o'clock.

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After changing into his dress suit, he smoked a cigarette

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and mingled with his fellow musicians in the hall down under the stage.

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A few moments before the orchestra's conductor, Maestro Carlo Fanello,

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raised his baton at 8.33, Joseph Evner excused himself.

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He said he'd forgotten something back down in his locker.

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He turned, left the hall, and was never heard from again.

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My name is Dexter, Phil Dexter. I'm a writer.

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I've written columns for some of the biggest dailies in the country.

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You may have read some of my stuff.

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Right now I'm doing feature articles for a magazine called The Real Story.

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About ten days ago, the managing editor, Brad Luby, called me into his office.

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Phil, sit down.

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Thanks.

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Phil, how much do you know about missing persons?

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Like Will Rogers, Brad, all I know is what I read in the papers.

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Well, thousands of people disappear every year.

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Some don't want to disappear, and they do. Some want to disappear, and they do.

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But eventually they turn up, dead or alive.

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Agreed. Eventually 95 percent of them turn up again, dead or alive.

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A week, a month, a year. Even ten years later.

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What about the other five percent, Phil?

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The five percent that vanish and are never heard from again.

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What about them?

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I don't know.

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That's the story I want, Phil.

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Now I got a list here from the police department.

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Bureau of Missing Persons. Take a look at it.

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It's a list of names.

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Right. Now you've got your choice. Pick any one of the names you want.

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I don't care who it is.

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Well, how about this one here? Ebner, Joseph Ebner.

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The musician. Okay, follow it up.

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You try to find Joseph Ebner, Phil, and if you find him, ask him why he disappeared.

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And so the search for Joseph Ebner began again.

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A one-man search.

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I wasn't too familiar with Ebner's case and needed briefing.

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I spent the whole afternoon going through his file at the police department Bureau of Missing Persons.

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It was one of the most comprehensive files in anyone's life I've ever come across.

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Information which began with Ebner's birth in Evanston, Illinois in 1910,

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up to and including the color of his socks, the name of the man, and the number of people he had.

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The color of his socks the night of his disappearance in 1948.

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Under vital statistics, I learned that Ebner was married to a woman named Martha.

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He had two children, two boys, ages 11 and 14.

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Three years before the night he disappeared, he'd purchased his own home in Burbank.

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That's where I decided to start.

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I don't understand this concern.

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After four years that Joseph's been away from home, such concern.

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I don't understand it, Mr. Dexter.

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Look, Mrs. Ebner, if you'd rather not discuss it...

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Not talk about it?

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Well, that's ridiculous.

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That's all I've done for four years is talk about it.

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All kinds of people have asked me about Joseph.

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But why shouldn't they?

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He's a fine musician.

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He's gone away for a little while.

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There's nothing to be ashamed of, is there?

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Of course not.

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What kind of man is your husband, Mrs. Ebner?

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A good man, Mr. Dexter.

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Good to me, good to his children.

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He gives us everything.

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Was...

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Is your husband a happy man, Mrs. Ebner?

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Happy?

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He never complains.

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He's satisfied.

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He gives us everything.

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Why would he have left?

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I don't know.

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Are you sure he left of his own free will?

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He has everything a man could want.

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Makes good money, good children, good home.

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Why, just the year before he left, we had the music room added on.

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The music room?

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Yes, it's his.

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Joseph composed music, you know, beautiful music.

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Would you like to see it?

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Very much.

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Good, this way.

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Come in, come in.

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Isn't it beautiful, Mr. Dexter?

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You see, there's his stand, his books, his piano.

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Just as he left them the night he went away.

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I want them to be just like that when he comes home.

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Is this some of his music?

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Yes, yes, that's something he's working on.

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I don't know what it is.

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Do you play, Mrs. Ebner?

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Well, just a little.

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I was wondering...

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Would you like me to play Joseph's composition?

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Here.

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It's pretty, isn't it, Mr. Dexter?

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Yes.

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But it's not finished.

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I'm sure he'll finish it when he gets home.

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I imagine he will.

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I don't even know what he calls it.

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There's something in pencil scratched across the top of this page.

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Hildy.

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Funny title.

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Well, maybe it's a name.

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Somebody who knows, who likes.

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Who knows?

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I wouldn't ask him, Mr. Dexter.

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He's sensitive about his music.

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My husband is a sensitive musician.

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Mrs. Ebner, may I borrow these sheets of music?

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Are you a musician?

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No, no, I just thought maybe I might get a lead on something.

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Mr. Dexter...

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Mr. Dexter, if the music should lead you to my husband,

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tell him that his wife and his children are waiting for him.

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We'll be here.

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Nothing will be different.

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It'll be just like it always was.

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If the music leads you to him, please tell him that.

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I will, Mrs. Ebner.

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I promise you, I will.

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I found out that the night of Joseph Ebner's strange disappearance,

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maestro Carlo Fenello had conducted the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra.

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The following afternoon I tried to get in to see Fenello,

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but he was in rehearsal for a concert he was giving me that evening.

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Later that night, I managed to corner his personal manager,

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Nicky Benson, at the Civic Auditorium.

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I don't know, Mr. Dexter.

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It all depends on his mood.

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These orchestra conductors are moody people, especially before a concert.

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Did you tell him who I was?

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Yes, I told him who you were and what you wanted,

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but I'm sure you understand.

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Of course.

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Joseph was his friend. He loved him very much.

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The maestro himself chose Joseph as the concertmaster.

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I see.

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Excuse me.

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Maestro?

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Maestro, this is the man I told you about.

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Oh, yes, yes. Come in, please.

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Come in.

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You, uh, sit?

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He would like you to sit, if you please.

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Thanks.

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Now, you talk. You say.

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As I said, I told him who you are and why you're here.

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Maestro Fenello, I understand you and Joseph Ebner were very good friends.

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More than friends, Signor Dexter. More than friends, yes, yes.

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You like wine?

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Oh, no, thank you. I don't care for any.

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Well, you excuse.

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Go right ahead.

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You want to find Joseph?

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Yes, I do.

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He was perhaps a good friend of yours?

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No.

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Then why? Four years ago, he disappeared. Long time.

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I'm a writer. I want to write a story about his disappearance.

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Oh, oh, oh.

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That night that Joseph disappeared, back in 48...

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Let's go back to that night, Maestro.

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Did he talk to you when he arrived here at the auditorium?

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No, no, we did not talk.

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But you saw him.

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Yes, when I arrived, Joseph was in the musician's room.

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I passed through. They all say, good evening, Maestro.

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I say, good evening.

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That was when you saw him?

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Yes.

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I read the testimonies of the musicians he'd spoken to that evening.

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It was just idle conversation, nothing of importance.

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The police have asked me these very same questions.

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I told them exactly what I have to tell you.

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I understand he did some composing.

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Ah, yes, a little. He has talent to compose music.

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Many times I have encouraged him.

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Many times he has come to the Maestro for advice.

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Did he ever speak to you about this piece of music, Maestro?

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No. This I do not recognize. It's not finished.

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I know.

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It's good.

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I think he calls it Hildy.

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Hildy? Hmm. It's strange.

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No, this I do not recognize.

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Joseph did not discuss this music with me.

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He wrote this?

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His wife gave it to me.

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Martha? Ah, yes, dear Martha.

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A wonderful woman, a good wife.

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Eh, it's too bad.

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Too bad?

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You are one man.

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In four years, many men have tried to find Joseph.

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They have not found him.

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No one will find him.

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I'm afraid, Signor Dexter, very much afraid.

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Now, you will excuse me, please.

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Of course. This way, Mr. Dexter.

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And thank you very much, Maestro, for now.

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You will not find him.

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The following day, I went back to the Civic Auditorium.

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I went through the entire place all by myself, examining every exit,

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talking with people who knew something about the case.

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Then I had a bit of luck.

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I was introduced to a stage doorman,

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the same stage doorman who had been on the door

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the night that Joseph Ebner had disappeared.

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Well, I'm just about run out of answers on this Ebner business.

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I know you've probably been questioned about this thing hundreds of times.

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Thousands of times, thousands.

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I went over the entire auditorium. I was...

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And you discovered that there's only one exit backstage that he could have left by.

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All the others were locked.

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Yes, but what about the front of the auditorium where the audience was sitting?

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I couldn't have left that way. Couldn't have gotten out there.

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Somebody had seen him.

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You're positive that Ebner didn't pass you going out the back door?

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If he'd gone out that door, I'd have seen him.

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It's impossible.

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He must have left by some exit.

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A person just doesn't disappear into thin air.

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That's the odd part about this whole thing, Mr. Dexter.

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Ebner left the green room. Now, some of the musicians saw him leave.

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He said he was going to his locker.

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Did he get to his locker?

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Nobody knows.

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But it's impossible that a man...

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Yes, Mr. Dexter, that's what everybody said at the time.

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The police, the newspapers, everybody.

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He said, it's impossible. Don't happen. A man just disappearing like that.

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But it did happen, Mr. Dexter. It really did. It happened just like that.

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I felt pretty discouraged when I thought about what Maestro Fenello had said.

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A lot of men, experts, some of them, had tried to find the answer, and they couldn't.

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How could I expect to find anything that would have led me to Joseph Ebner?

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I still had his unfinished piece of music, but that looked like a blind spot, too.

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I was back up in the office. It was about 8.30.

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I was sitting there when the phone rang.

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Hello?

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Mr. Dexter?

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Yeah?

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Mr. Dexter, this is Nicky Benson.

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Oh, oh, yeah.

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I don't know. Maybe it's important, or maybe it's not. I don't know. But still, it's strange.

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What are you talking about?

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Well, Eric Richter just showed up in the musician's lounge.

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Eric Richter?

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Yes.

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Well, who's Eric Richter?

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He was one of Joseph Ebner's closest friends.

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What's so strange about his showing up?

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Well, this is the first time anyone has seen Richter in four years, Mr. Dexter,

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because he disappeared the same night that Joseph Ebner did.

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Auto Light is bringing you Mr. MacDonald Carey in The Missing Person,

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tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.

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And if they're not, Harlow?

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Well, Hap, if they're worn out, get them replaced with a set of ignition-engineered auto light spark plugs,

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like, for example, the auto light resistor type.

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That's the auto light resistor for me, Harlow.

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So, friends, have your auto light spark plug dealer check your spark plugs this week.

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And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with auto light.

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And now, auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage Mr. MacDonald Carey in Elliot Lewis's production of

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The Missing Person, a true story well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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Mr. Benson, where's Richter?

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Shhh. He left when the concert started.

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Oh, oh. Well, tell me about him. Is he a musician?

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Yes. Well, that is, he was a musician. At one time, Eric used to play the violin with the orchestra,

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but he had some kind of a stroke some years ago. Paralyzed his hands.

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He used to come around a lot, see Joseph, and talk to his friends in the orchestra.

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The night that Ebner disappeared, had this Richter come around?

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Oh, yes. He was here. I was in the musician's lounge for a little while that night.

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I don't know if anybody else saw it or not. I saw it. Eric came in and stood at the door for a long time.

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Then I saw Joseph go over to him and talk to him for a couple of minutes.

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Then Joseph went back to where he was standing with some other musicians.

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I went through the police files and I don't remember where...

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Yeah, I know, I know. I didn't say anything to the police at the time. I didn't think it was important.

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But tonight, funny...

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Tonight, when I saw him for the first time since the night that Joseph disappeared,

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then I thought to myself it was important.

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It was important the night that Ebner disappeared, Mr. Benson.

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You should have told the police then. It may have been very important.

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Benson gave me Richter's last known address. It was a cheap hotel on 3rd Street.

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I went there. The unshaven landlord told me that Eric Richter was in.

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I told Richter who I was and what I wanted to know.

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Please, sit down, Mr. Dexter.

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Thanks.

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Sorry, I have nothing to offer you. If I'd known I was to have a guest, I should...

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That's quite all right.

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You understand my situation, I'm sure. See, I haven't worked in...

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Mr. Richter, I want to ask you some questions.

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About Joseph. Joseph Ebner.

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Yes, dear Joseph. He's not dead, you know. I believe as you do, Mr. Dexter.

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You disappeared the same night that Joseph Ebner disappeared, Mr. Richter.

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What happened to you?

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I disappeared? This is news to me. I disappeared?

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Nicky Benson told me that you used to go to the auditorium quite a bit

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to talk to your friends in the orchestra, but that after Ebner disappeared, you just weren't...

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Oh, you speak in accusers if I had committed some crime, Mr. Dexter.

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For four years, I have not chosen to see my friends.

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I have not seen them, that's all.

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I see.

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Mr. Richter, when Ebner disappeared four years ago, he was composing a piece of music.

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I don't know what it was. His wife Martha doesn't know either. Nobody seems to know.

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Maybe you do. Here, look at it.

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Oh, you will have to hold it for me, Mr. Dexter.

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Yes.

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Hildy.

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You know?

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I...

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What is it?

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Mr. Dexter, I...

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Do you know what it is?

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No, it's nothing. It's just...

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Is Hildy a name?

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Look, Mr. Dexter, I don't know anything that will lead you to Joseph Ebner.

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Besides, there has been enough suffering for his wife. Why should there be more suffering?

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Suffering? What do you mean, suffering?

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Don't ask me to tell you. It isn't right for me to tell you.

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Tell me, Richter, please.

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Hildy...

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Hildy, Mr. Dexter, is a woman.

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A woman? Who is she?

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She's a woman who was more than a friend to Joseph.

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Oh, I see.

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No. No, you don't see at all.

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Where is this Hildy?

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I don't know. I haven't seen her in a long time.

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Is Ebner with her now?

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I don't know.

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Ebner said something to you that night in 1948 back in the auditorium. What was it?

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He told me he had found an answer to his problem.

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And that was the last you saw of him?

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Yes, yes. I never saw him after that.

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And Hildy?

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I never saw Hildy again.

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Eric Richter gave me the last known address of the woman named Hildy.

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In four years, a lot of things happen.

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I was almost afraid to begin my search for her, afraid of what I might find.

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But it was my story. I had to follow it up.

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I went to the address that Richter had given me.

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Yes?

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Excuse me, I was looking for someone. This was the last known address of this party.

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Perhaps you might be able to help me trace her down.

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How long ago?

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Well, she lived here four years ago.

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Well, that's a long time. A lot of people moved in and out since then.

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You remember her name?

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Her name was Hildy.

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Hildy?

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Yes. Do you remember?

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Well, she still lives here.

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You mean she still?

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Well, what's so strange about that? Got a lot of people in the building who've lived here.

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Does she live alone?

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Apartment 207.

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Do you know if she's in now?

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You can use those stairs over there.

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Thanks. Thanks.

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Yes?

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Is your name Hildy Dexter? Phil Dexter. I'm a writer with the magazine The Real Story.

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Yes?

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I'm looking for Joseph Ebner.

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Won't you come in, Mr. Dexter?

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Sit down.

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Thank you.

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How did you find me?

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Eric Richter.

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I see.

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And now you want to ask me a lot of questions.

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I'm not a reporter. I'm writing an article for a magazine.

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Still, there'll be questions.

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Yes.

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First, you'll want to know if I know where Joseph is.

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No, I don't know, Mr. Dexter.

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If I knew, I'd tell you.

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Why would you tell me?

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No man possessed of his talent has the right to deny it to others.

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I see.

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Then next, you'll want to know if...

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No, no. That's not necessary.

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Let me tell you how we first met.

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It was at a party. We were introduced.

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At first, it was just a casual acquaintance.

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Then Joseph invited me to a concert.

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He told me of his family, his love for children.

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Why are you telling me all this?

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Because I want you to understand that we never did anything to be ashamed of.

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Our relationship was a thing of music.

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Music is what drew us together.

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When was the last time you saw Joseph?

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Three nights before he disappeared.

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Why didn't you go to the police? Tell them what you knew.

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There was nothing I knew that would have helped the police.

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Joseph's wife loved him.

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Why should it have been necessary for her to suffer any more?

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Then there were the children.

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I don't understand.

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Don't you see, Mr. Dexter?

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The others wouldn't have understood a relationship like ours.

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I've got something here I'd like to show you.

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What is it?

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You knew, of course, that Eppner did some composing.

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He had many talents. Yes, I know.

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Did you know that he'd been composing this?

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No, I didn't.

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Very beautiful, isn't it?

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He named it Hildy.

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I can see.

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It was for you.

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Please.

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Where is Joseph Ebner Hildy? Where is he?

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Mr. Dexter, I told you I don't know.

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If I did know, I'd tell you.

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I don't know where Joseph is.

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I miss him.

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I see.

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Just to see him, nothing more.

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Just to know that he's all right is enough.

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It fills a load.

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I understand.

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Thank you, Hildy.

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I've tracked down the last hopeful bit of information that might have led me to Joseph Ebner.

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It still leads into a blind alley.

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Joseph Ebner may never be found now, but he's out there.

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Somewhere, somewhere at this very moment, he may be listening to the sound of my voice.

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If any one of you who are listening should ever hear this piece of music being played,

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get in touch with your local authorities,

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because you will have found Joseph Ebner.

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Suspense.

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A true story presented by Auto Light.

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Tonight's star, Mr. MacDonald Carey.

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Next week, a story about courage.

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The terrifying, normal operational flight of a bomber and her crew.

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A dramatization of The Flight of the Bumblebee, starring Mr. Fred McMurray.

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The story will be heard on Suspense.

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Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis,

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with music composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Gluskin.

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The Missing Person was written for Suspense by Richard George Pedicini.

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Featured in tonight's cast were Irene Tedrow, Joseph Kearns, Jane Avello,

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Herb Vigran, Paula Winslow, and Jim Nusser.

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McDonald Carey may soon be seen in the 20th Century Fox picture, My Wife's Best Friend.

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And remember next week on Suspense, Mr. Fred McMurray in The Flight of the Bumblebee.

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You can buy Auto Light standard type or resistor type spark plugs,

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the Auto Light staple battery, Auto Light electrical parts,

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at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers.

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Switch to Auto Light. Good night.

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