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Quiet, please.
Quiet, please.
The neutral broadcasting system presents Quiet, please.
Which is written in the righted by Willis Cooper,
and which features Ernest Chappell.
Quiet, please, what the night is called.
Come in, Eddie.
Hmm, believe him, ghost.
Wanted houses?
And we got a story for you.
We were sitting in the living room alongside a fireplace.
Him, Christ.
Just sitting there and caught a little.
Having a cable on his out of the bottle.
Just sitting there and looking for fire.
And that's the two of us.
Carol was at the apartment in the orphanage on the phone.
The light went in at the end when I was 30 nights.
She said, how's it about driving off at the cozy of your place, huh?
That's what we were talking about this night with the rain.
It was Chappell as well.
We were all alone in the house.
How long you been here, huh?
Where?
Here?
In Eddie's house?
This is my house.
It is now.
I don't forget it.
No.
You feel funny, little?
No.
I?
That's what you were.
Any ever come around?
Are you kidding?
Doesn't?
Well, how could he?
Well, he liked the house pretty well.
Yeah, if he came around now, he wouldn't recognize us.
I couldn't see what he's done with us.
I'm sorry.
Come in.
I'll show you in the morning.
Uh...
I have feelings for that.
Yeah.
Yeah, we have been all this time, too.
You know what I mean?
You stay by here, huh?
Yeah.
In the office.
I think maybe Carol and I will lie here, though.
Right.
Not really.
Nobody else?
Hey, Arnold.
You have much left?
What do you mean?
Much.
Look, I mean, you know.
Besides the house?
Why?
Uh...
I got some.
Why?
You'll go?
Pretty me.
You still got your card?
Young and kind?
Well, what do you mean?
Well, if I'm going to play together, I'm going to do it for fun.
Oh, I thought maybe you'd have an idea.
Did you get your idea?
Yeah.
That's any spin?
That's my spin.
You don't want any spin?
Yeah.
I haven't cut the keyboard in years.
So, okay.
Yes, and it wouldn't mind if I played with you.
No, I don't have the list up, will you?
No, no, no, no.
I'm not going to play.
I'm not going to play with you.
I'm not going to play with you.
I'm not going to play with you.
Hey, cut that out, will you?
What?
Yeah, leave the piano alone.
Okay.
We just talk.
Why don't you just shut up a while?
Oh, I can't feel like talking again.
But I don't.
Well, I'm not talking.
You just...
Want a drink?
No.
I don't have one.
Yeah, I wouldn't want to be alone in this house
with Eddie walking around by.
Got it out, hoarding.
I told you to cut that out, you hear me?
Oh, no.
You busted one of Eddie's best class.
You, son!
That's what he's trying to cook up.
I thought you were the threat of dogs, sir.
I'm not.
I'm not, I tell you.
Here you are, Eddie.
What do you want to do?
I just thought maybe you'd...
I'd...
You know, get your mind on Eddie for a little while.
Why?
Well, I'll tell you.
I got to have some dogs.
I get it.
And the answer's no.
I mean, I got to have it.
Well, listen, you got the big hat when...
When we murdered Eddie?
Oh, don't think it's so big, Arnold.
There's nobody here that can use me.
Look at that.
That's great.
I lost the piano on his feet.
Think it was Eddie?
Yes, and I got just about an hour with him.
It's awful cold in here all of a sudden.
And I wonder that door's open.
Well, get it.
Oh, wait.
Maybe Eddie's here.
Come in, Eddie.
Don't say that.
Too late, Arnold.
Shut the door, Eddie.
It's all right.
You think the wind, I told you.
It must have been a wind.
And there's only things you know how it's like this one.
Sure.
The wind's open, I don't really.
Oh, the grass is a doorway.
Oh, there's all some shadows.
What?
It couldn't be Eddie.
Well, Eddie's dead.
Eddie died six years ago by hearing this out.
I hear this room.
Well, I couldn't help it.
I like Eddie.
Well, Eddie was my cousin, wasn't he?
I couldn't help it.
He had more money than he knew what to do with.
I couldn't help wanting his money.
Well, everybody wants money, don't they?
Eddie shouldn't have let me know he made that well
and I was to get everything.
There's a house in everything.
I'm not going to be crazy.
Can't be easy.
You know what he was doing to hurt me?
He'd have been here before that.
From me?
Oh, there isn't any way out of it, I don't you see?
I got a hand too.
No.
And I won't give it to you.
Now, look, I know let's be reasonable.
You let me have this dough and I'll go away
and I won't come back.
How do I know you won't?
Well, kid, you don't.
But see, you haven't got any alternative.
I won't do it.
What do I do to them in this state?
Who?
Mary.
Stop talking that way, hang on.
Or burn them.
Well, you'll find out too if you try to squeal on me.
You had just as much to do with it as I did.
Yeah, that's right.
So I did.
No, don't try anything.
Oh, I don't don't be so dumb.
That's the trouble with you.
You're always so dumb.
What?
This.
Who thought I'm knocking off Eddie in the prison?
You did.
Right.
And who figured out a way to do it?
So nobody'd ever even suspicion with me.
You did?
Well, then, Jerky, don't think I haven't got an out on this thing.
How?
I should tell you.
Look, take my word for it.
I'm in the clear.
Brother, you ain't.
So you might as well lay it on the line and be happy.
I don't believe it.
Okay, so don't think.
But believe me, Arnold, when I tell you it's going to cost you.
One thing or the other.
Why do you need it?
The dough, Arnold.
For your life.
You see?
I won't do it.
Stir up a fire, Arnold.
And cold in here again in that door.
No.
The door's closed, Arnold.
Eddie's in here with us.
Right.
I didn't touch that talk.
Of course she did, Arnold.
That was Eddie.
Starting to stir up a fire for sure.
What?!
It is very strange things, Elő.
For when people are down to their dead.
You look a measures.
All the other people.
They'll taxes, paying some kind of a check on me just like you picked me on the killing Eddie.
I would never have thought about this would be suggested.
My away from nice looking how kind it would be if that he was there, and I had all his money.
I don't remember how Jim packed some wood down the other room for how he said.
He had to be better off because he was so sick all the time.
And that's how he told me to get out of way to kill himself. Nobody ever had that face.
And he kept talking about what we could do with all the money that he had.
Nettie in the next room with that crystal cocktail figure of his calling who was to come and have a drink with a muse of motion.
And the two of us would drink with him.
He never knew what we were going to do with an answer like this.
I remember Jim whispering in the corner.
Nice guy, Eddie. But he's so useless, I don't know.
I remember Jim on the telephone.
All Eddie always have brought the devil that can pick him up.
And I remember waking up in the middle of the night and making the other Jim's voice somewhere.
We'd be doing Eddie a favor on him.
And a day in this very room.
And Eddie on the floor.
And Jim walking across the room with that big, toothy grin of his and sticking out his hand and saying.
Congratulations.
Congratulations, rich man.
And then the sound of a poker calling on the heart and Eddie's house at midnight.
With nobody's ever me and Jim Paxton.
That was a starting to stir up the fire for you.
I want to drink now.
Now wait. I cut it out Jim.
I said wait.
We want to get these things settled before you start to get tired.
I'm not going to get tired. I just want to drink you'll get a drink.
I'm going to sleep in this thing out.
Now look.
I'll give you a thousand dollars.
Why are you big hearted old fellow?
Not another dime.
Can't be the part.
Yes.
I don't want a thousand dollars.
Will you give me a drink?
No.
It looks.
I want a lot more than ten more hours a hundred dollars a bit.
Now you're not going to get it by mistake.
Well.
How much?
How much have you got?
None of your business.
Well.
Let's just get them around.
I got a pretty good idea.
How much do you got?
You have not.
Why do you think so?
All right.
Look.
For twenty thousand dollars, I'll never see you again.
Twenty thousand dollars.
What do you think I am?
Listen.
I'm joking.
With your help.
I never touched you.
Well, but you kill him.
Well, you're just as killed as I am.
Not that.
Give me a drink.
That's the one.
What about these forty days?
You.
You know what I could do, do you?
What could you do, huh?
Will you tell me?
I killed Eddie.
You did?
You've never.
I've never lived here the other night.
I might kill you.
Sure.
I'm bigger than you, Jim.
Yeah?
Well, I could do it jokingly.
Or you could hit me with a poker.
Or maybe you got tons of you to shoot me here.
I think I will give you.
No.
Yes, I do.
Wait a minute, Arnold.
I should.
I will.
I'll tell you.
I'll tell you, huh?
Go on.
Think.
The trouble with Newy.
You're so dumb.
You're dumb enough to kill you.
Yeah, that sure would be dumb, boy.
Yeah, it's not here.
I told you I got it out if I had to turn you in.
I was smart enough to figure that out so nobody could touch me.
Well, that got to do with me.
Kill him.
Well, Arnold, boy, if I was smart enough to figure out a foolful way
of knocking off your cousin,
if I was smart enough to dope out of way to keep my nose clean,
they hang you.
Well, wouldn't I be smart enough to have an angle
to keep you from bumping me?
What do you mean?
You know, one of the reasons I like you, Arnold, is...
You're so simple, I need to write you a book.
Look, how'd you ever go to the movie?
Or listen to the radio or read a book?
How do you talk to your boss?
Oh, okay.
Look, there's a little note.
Written to a certain guy.
But still, all the words about how he got knocked off.
And this little note, I don't?
Within the hand of a certain other guy.
If I don't call him up or come see him for twenty-four hours,
you blame him, you know.
Do you see how simple?
I don't believe it.
Okay.
Knock me off and see.
You know, Jim...
Jim, I was thinking...
Well, why didn't you know about that?
I was thinking...
Wouldn't it be funnier if Daddy was here?
Funny?
Oh, you know...
I thought he was here.
Listening to us, too.
Talk about how we...
We murdered him.
The word, I don't know.
How we murdered him.
You know, I don't think he...
He knew who did it.
I never thought of that.
I don't think he did.
He was standing there.
Right over there.
I mean, he had his back turned to both of us.
Let's not go into the details, I don't know.
Remember?
Well, I was just thinking, if he was here,
he was talking about getting rid of each other.
Yeah.
He had a great kick out of it.
And he had a terrific sense of humor.
Yeah.
He also had a terrific sense of getting even with people, Jim.
Yeah.
I know.
Well, if he was here, listen to Wallace.
You know what he'd be thinking about.
Get him over.
Yeah.
Well, so he's not here.
Are you sure?
Look down at the window of the door open.
Yeah.
And I knocked the poker over.
How could you?
I kicked the place with a stand.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Don't get him, did you?
I did.
Then you don't think...
You don't think that he is here?
Yeah.
Are you nuts?
Well, you're a hawk at it.
I mean, they're...
They're on it.
Ghosts.
Father.
Well?
Not to change the subject, boy, but...
What about my money?
I got to think about it.
You're thinking all done by now, boy.
I've made it on the line for you.
It's open and shut.
I'll give you a drink.
Boy, yeah.
Wait.
No.
What is that?
I know what it sounds like.
And he's got your sugar.
Yeah.
Who else is going to have a snow body?
Don't cheat!
I'm not!
Listen.
Jim.
Quiet.
Listen, Jim.
Listen, Jim.
This is the way you had to use to shake up those batteries.
Do you remember?
Listen.
Cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep.
Remember?
Ten.
What was in the library?
Making a drink.
Maybe he heard you asking for one.
Got it all.
Don't see what that noise is.
I've made it.
It's from the library.
Jim.
Maybe it is Eddie.
Go see!
No.
Listen.
If you're pulling a gag on me, Jim, I'm not.
I'm telling you.
Where is that cocktail shaker?
It is.
In the library?
I put it in there just the other day.
Why don't you go see what that noise is?
No.
Well, let's both go.
Jim.
I'm afraid.
You know what we were talking about?
But that he didn't even...
I mean, you're such a jerk.
Come on, we wrath at something.
Give me that paper, I'll go to sleep.
No.
No, thank you, I'm here.
Hey, Eddie.
See?
Hey, Eddie.
Bring us a drink.
Don't you have them.
Turn it out.
Look out.
Turn it on.
Bring us a drink.
Hey, Eddie.
Come here, Eddie.
Oh, what's it?
Hey, I...
I don't turn on the light.
I don't get them.
Hello!
I suddenly had the turns just right time.
I don't want to twist.
I'm just gonna climb up.
I got someone.
Oh, my God.
I heard Jamie Elix.
Oh!
That's not what I do.
You can't touch me in a shape.
It's clear, but you're way out of the shape.
The way I always remember.
You're way out of the dark.
You can't hug me at all.
Last thing I remember was another time.
Oh, that's not cool on the floor.
Come in slowly. Slowly I drifted back.
The lights were still out.
And I could smell it.
The more you smell it, the liquor.
The back of the cocktails from a crystal shaker.
Nobody in that house had had a duckery since the day he died.
I heard something.
I heard the piano.
And the music was that old favorite of that.
He's the one who used to play.
The one Jim had started to play.
He used to say that Frank D. Meyer.
And I called Jim.
Hey Jim!
But the music was right on him. Jim didn't answer.
And the doorbell started to ring.
And the music stopped.
And the lights were not.
And the big fella, some kind of uniform, stood in the door.
I don't seem to see anybody.
Oh, there he is.
Who?
Who are you?
State police.
I'm glad.
What do you want?
Who is that playing the piano when I rang the bell?
I don't know.
Get up off the floor.
Where is he?
What?
Where's Jim?
Jim?
Is this Jim here, missus?
Where?
Yeah.
And I looked.
Jim was beside the fireplace.
And he was there.
And the side of him was there.
Shattered remains as a crystal cocktail shaker that after that he's...
You would do this, Mr. Empire.
Where did you come from?
You do this?
Who sent you here?
Well, I'll tell you.
Some guy called up and said there was murder being done here.
And we'd better get here quick.
So, no, don't try.
It must be busy with me, Mr.
There's another officer right outside the door.
And he's got a Tommy guy.
And he's got a knife.
The fella who told you obviously.
That I'm going to find out.
They got your hands, right?
That's it.
I don't know who he was.
Just said, this is Eddie speaking.
I said Eddie who?
And he laughed and said,
just Eddie.
Oh, that's all I know.
You'll have listened to Quiet Please,
which is written and directed by Willis Cooper.
The man who spoke to you was Ernest Chappell.
And less remained played Jim Paxton,
or the call was a police officer.
Music for tonight's Quiet Please was composed and played by Albert Grunman.
And now for a word about next week's Quiet Please.
Here is my good friend, Bill Cooper.
I have a start for you next week.
I have a start for you next week about what sometimes happens to explore
as it go places they shouldn't go.
And I call it some people can't die.
It's over the next week of this time.
I am Quiet Please.
And his Chappell.
This is the new tool broadcasting system.
