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I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows.

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And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's Strange Story.

Lady in Waiting.

Jean Collins's feelings didn't match the day at all.

It was spring in San Francisco.

And the city had a way of catching the spirit of such occasions.

Jean entered a substantial looking officer paused near a flight of stairs, her eyes examining the directory until they came to rest on John Bradley, attorney at Law room to awake.

Jean went up the stairs, forcing herself, determined to keep the appointment, even though she was more afraid than ever.

When she opened the door, the secretary ushered her into Bradley's office.

Oh well.

You're missus King Collins.

Yes, I called sit down, Miss Colin.

Thank you.

You would see nervous, just that I'm not sure you can help me, mister Bradley, and no one else knows what I'm about to carry, and.

No one else will better I handle the case or not.

Does that make it easier?

Yes?

Much, Well, it's quite simple in a way.

Back ny You see, I was keeping company with someone a number of months ago.

At the time, I thought he was a very fine man.

I wasn't in love with him, but he was kind and thoughtful and in.

Love with me.

I only tell you that till you understand.

I do understand well.

Anyway, he wanted me to marry me.

He said we'd go away to travel around the world for a few years.

He kept talking about that.

I'm afraid but waiting for me to give him an answer, but kept me here.

It's not a case of n too unusual yet.

In this common I haven't told you his name, his Frank Hodds.

Me hotes not the one.

Believe me.

I didn't know any more about that part of his life than anyone else.

He never told me, and to me, to mister Daddy, he'd never guessed he was a terfect gentleman.

I'd never never.

Twenty years didn't.

Yes, I remember reading about it quite a list of tadgers.

You doubt his guilt is that.

It want me to know, mister Bradleys, that isn't good.

I'm glad the evidence against him at the trial is pretty conclusive.

I want you to do something else.

Maybe you won't be able to.

I'm not sure Franks might be stubbing about it.

No, he refused to see me.

My name never came up.

As far as the rest of the world knows, I never even knew him.

The problem.

Every month in the mailbox at my apartment, I find an envelope he'll return.

To excerpt prop.

You don't understand.

I know that somehow Frank Hardison is spending that money.

I want it stopped.

I haven't touched the center, but I don't want to.

But I thought if a lawyer talked to him, explain to France that he's really doing me more harm than good.

You see, I I have a rather responsible position.

Mister Bradley and the people I work with every course.

Why don't you go home?

I'll forget it.

MS Commons, I'll handle it.

I'll drive up and see Hordison tomorrow.

Thank you well?

When will I know?

I'll be terribly anxi.

You will meet me here about four o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

Oh ma, I'm sorry you see, I'm with a publicity concern to dadis we have an important meeting a client to my afternoon.

We might leave me after hours a boostar cocktailer at six o'clock.

All right, and I let all the answers to it.

I hope.

So it's easier now, isn't the gene?

Now that your problem is being shared?

And somehow you feel a sense of confidence and Attorney John Bred Riding home in a cab, you hope that it will go as simply as Bradley seems to anticipate.

In front of the Oxford Arms, you're suddenly aware that the tab is stopped, that the Oxford Armed door man is smiling at you, waiting for you to step out.

You with us, Miss g Oh, I'm sorry, Dan, dreaming again the your driver frankly, as.

A fine spring day like this, if ging you should leave that desk if yours can get outside, won't for walk through the Golden Gate Park.

Nothing like that, being outs Daniel wonderful a.

You sean Now it's scream No, I mean really all I'm all right on.

My fine by.

Do you think you should work like this game?

It's all doors, doctor says.

That's where I are to be, all right, just worried about your glories.

Should be more like you can scream the way look active the past few days I did.

You've got things on your gold mine, Dani.

Should be more like you to notice that.

Now it's just a business worries.

And I think people be all cleared up at Mars.

I touched to Ms Collins to no more worries, an uninhibited future.

Oh, mister Babby, I'm so glad of whence that way?

You're not drinking?

Oh well, I really don't feel like it.

I'm just happy the strength didn't give you any trouble.

But he understood, Oh.

He did perfectly.

And you're right, Frank Hottes some things like a nice guy.

Yes, could not believe you should have done all those other things.

Oh, I don't know.

In my line, you should discover that most people have many different sides.

Well, let's talk about you.

You still have a problem, oh yourself.

Why you've been brooding about all this?

Can I help you forget it somewhere?

Huh?

Oh good, start my dear steak dinner at rock O's Castle.

You can look down at the city and tell it that Genie Collins isn't.

Going to worry anymore about anyway.

I couldn't you should?

Is this the service you provide for all your.

Time, mister b No, you'll pay for it if you like.

I'll be your first charity.

What do you mean all that money that's accumulated?

How does he know you want it back?

He hasn't much use for it where he is.

He suggests that you deduct my fee and give the rest.

Of your favorite charity.

Oh and my fee includes.

The take dinner.

Say enough, then I'll drive you straight home.

All right, fair enough, mister Boddy.

Well, hey, yuh, jame right to the door the body you can l n see.

Oh joy, he's been very kind.

I do a tucher your favorite lay.

Huh, Absolutely, it's all right.

You don't help it.

Come up the door man still on us when I see you soon.

I don't know what yeah, get in trouble again right away, will you.

I'll handle it, idiot, good Mary, I'll try good enough, well even miss.

G d well, well, well we'll spring days, get the live into the night.

You're happy this week?

Yeah, it's good night dance.

Well wait a minute, did you get something this week?

No?

Then yes?

And then I just want you to think I'm talking my nose into other people's business.

Except what do you ask you?

Se me?

You're not really very well over again?

No, d I I I just want to know if you had some money, quite a bit of money.

Is there any doctor that could host you.

This ged?

They should be more alive, you.

Man, I'll not forget you do.

I'll tell you did a long time ago.

I had all the care a mon ad.

I'll I'm just standing for the door.

Now wait in my face, Oh to guje Oh, I won't ever forgmit you good night.

In the days that follow, you see more and more of John Bradley, don't you, jeeves.

There are evenings at the pier, dancing, dining at the smart clubs down the peninsula.

When you find yourself becoming extremely fond of me, You look forward to each meeting with increasing interest.

Then one evening you say good night to John on the lobby of your apartment.

There, go upstairs because you're about to open your apartment door.

I'm going in with you, skipping inside, and don't holler.

I'm your favorite charity.

One of the boys was up to see Frank Harrison a few days ago, Frank curling, you hadn't spent another money he sent you if you were going to give it your favorite charity, Miss Collins or what do you want?

Oh, we'll we'll start off as you get your check, write out the full amount of Frankie Hardison's little donations.

You didn't know it, but I was a partner of Frankie's Dan.

I don't like the way he's running our business.

Or I'm changing things a little first to check it, not asking him, telling you.

I'll tell you something else.

You better forget your boyfriend John Bradley.

The doubts crossed off your books.

You mustn't se him anymore.

He's done nothing, not yet, but.

He's a lawyer.

You don't like Flayer.

I like to hanging around me.

Well, Frank's boy thanks, yeah, yeah, he didn't for twenty years.

Your people tell you're a leader in waiting anyway.

That's how it is the only way that's safe for me.

I tell you start.

Joey starts, and like I said, I'm telling you, no more lawyer, no more doing things anyway but mine.

You'll go no close if you do.

And I can't get back to you.

And your friend John Bradley after taking child you a year.

Yeah, hey, Jemmie, my pen the right that check craft now your favorite charity.

Joey starts.

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It vanished in an instant, didn't a genie, a hope for a bright, clean future.

It disappeared when your past association with Frank Hardison came calling again, this time in the person of Joey's stark.

Joey, who says he was Frank Hardson's partner, won't believe that you didn't know what was going on, had no knowledge of the sort of deals that sent Frank to prison for twenty years.

More than that, Joey's Stark made you give him a check for all the money Frank Hardison sent you, and he insists that you stop seeing John Bradley.

Joey's afraid of lawyers afraid of anything that might put him where Frank is so desperately afraid that he'd commit murder.

You know that.

That's why for the next three days you refuse to see John Bradley.

You leave words, you won't talk to him, even on the telephone.

Yes, Miss Jean, this is Dan downstairs.

He's calling me again.

That's mister Bradley.

He won't take no fun answer.

He'll have to I can't talk to him.

The terrible part is the realization that you love John Bradley.

Isn't it, Jean, that you don't want to give him up.

Later, as you leave the apartment, you find something else.

A note downstairs in the mailbox orders from mister Joey Stark to meet him tonight.

You hurry downtown to your.

Office or Miss Collins.

Yes, Jimmy a client to see you, Miss Collins.

He's waiting in your office.

Client.

I wasn't expecting it.

No gosh, he said he'd talk to you.

Insist that I'm going right in.

I can't remember him.

Well, thanks, Jimmy, I'll go see.

Hello, Jeane.

John, you shouldn't have come here.

I'm staying right here until you talk to me, Until you tell me what's wrongs it do?

Yeah, it's nothing, John.

Why have you refused to see me?

Why aren't you in when I called John?

You even have the dorman at your apartment making excuses when I know he's lying?

Jeane, it's something I've done.

No, you, you haven't done anything.

Who has?

What's it all about?

Johnny?

If I tell you, if I give you the real reason, will you go away?

Promise?

Tell me?

Je r.

Hey, I'm the guy that said get in trouble.

Remember your favorite lawyer?

Come on, No, someone called him.

It's a man I never saw before.

He said he was Frank Hardison's partner.

Oh, you wouldn't believe I don't know about Frankie.

Well, trust me, I didn't want you mixed up in it anymore.

It's not you.

I should have known about Frank, could have found out long ago.

Who is this man, Jean?

Where is he?

His name is Joey Stark.

It's all I can tell you.

He spent words for me to meet him tonight.

No, you're not.

Oh, but I am.

I have to know.

Meeting.

Oh you can't.

He'd kill you, he said, So let me handle it.

Maybe it's just a bluff.

No, I'll talk to him like I did with Frank.

Please, Jeane, I'll be careful.

Tell me where he was supposed to meet him.

There's a very demanding note.

Have it my first.

It's all there, hotel on Ellis.

When you get through here, go home, wait for me to call.

Don't open the door or talk to anyone.

Please, I'll handle it.

Just wait until I call.

The waiting isn't easy, is it not?

When you realize what might happen.

The afternoon at the office drags on almost endlessly.

You catch a hurried dinner on the way home, scarcely touching the food.

Then home to an apartment that seems to turn into a prison cell, to pace it nervously, replacing your steps, staring at the telephone.

About nine o'clock it's almost too much to bear any longer.

And then.

Yes, John, are you all right?

Worry about you go to the hotel?

Yes, you.

Better think over.

I don't think I should everything over.

Nothing to worry about.

I'll come buy in the morning before.

You go to work.

Step away.

In the meantime, Yes, no matter what you might here, remember there's nothing to worry.

About, nothing at all.

Now, as the receiver clicks in your ear.

You wonder what he means by not now, But there's no use trying to guess, Jeanie.

Nothing to do but wait until morning, you spending almost sleepless night, and then rush to the door to greet him as the buzzer sounds.

Oh, John, I've been Stock.

Who you Kennon?

William Thomastide and that side and Laton?

Maybe step in the spelling homicide.

I don't understand.

There's some things we don't understand.

The spelling.

When we talk it of the m h, it won't be necessary.

I'll come right to the point of spelling.

Did you write this check to Joey Stock?

Oh?

Yes, yes I did.

What did you do?

We bounded on the body of Joey's Stock in your body.

That's fine.

He was found late last night, brought into the morgue.

Took a little while to look you up, and naturally we're interested in learning the connection between you and this man.

That's quite a sum.

Please, I don't know anything about it.

Of course I wrote the chapter.

But what did you go to Joey's Stocks hotel at any time last night?

You didn't leave your apartment here?

I suppose no I.

Didn't go there.

I tell you I was supposed to, but something happening I changed my mind.

Lazy the doorman on duty, get him and bring him up here.

We'll see if he's got a memory.

Now, Uh, Miss Dollar, why didn't you tell me what it's all about?

Blackmail?

S?

No, I tell you what h.

Somebody, whoever it is, I'll send them away.

Oh I wouldn't do that, Miss Collins.

We'll both see who it is.

Quite insistent.

Go ahead open the door, John.

I can't see you now.

You can drag me to the office some other.

Time, Johnny, Bradley, Tennant Williams.

Judy lost little time in calling a lawyer, Miss Collins a good one too, real coming, good boy, jan Jean?

How long you dinner?

What have you told him?

I worked first?

Bradley, You know that she told me all I want to know, namely that this is her check check What about it?

Johnny found it on Joey Stark's body.

Say you folks talk real familiar about Joey Stark.

You know him too, Brady.

Maybe why shouldn't he have Miss Collis check?

She gave it to him as a favor for somebody?

Really?

Who what difference.

Does it make none if she didn't leave this apartment last night?

And we'll know that in a minute.

Uh you find that door man Lacy?

Yes?

In here, Dan, what is all this?

Missus?

Genius is something.

I'll ask the questions.

If you don't mind, then we're trying to find out if miss Collins went to a certain address last night.

It's to her advantage for you to tell the truth.

Did you notice I leave the building around nine o'clock?

Like she said?

I'm asking him so.

Well, did she?

Well?

Miss Collins never left the building hall last night.

I worked very late, and I have a sener i'd satisfy you.

I am not trying to fasten this thing on anyone, Bradley.

I just want the truth and just to well Miss Collins.

If I don't doubt you and your witness, I think a jury might What do you mean, Dan Rodgers?

Here, I have a very good memory, let me see.

Convicted of perjury in nineteen twenty nine, went to day parole for good behavior.

Brought back on the same charge in nineteen thirty two.

S five years A nice reliable with.

Me in riding up here in the elevator, he tells me what a kind young lady, Miss Collins is offer the money for medical care.

He just sound prejudiced.

Enough, mister Bradley, what are you going to do?

Same thing you do in my position, I'm arresting your clients, Miss Collins for murder.

Wait a minute, John, you've got your murderer Williams.

But it isn't Miss Collins.

I did it.

Why you heard me?

I did it.

I killed him.

If you don't believe it, pick up the cab driver who told me over the last night.

Out of all the cabs and sands, number was forty two eleven.

I made a note of it.

Get him he remember me.

We had trouble finding Stock's address.

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At a signal station where you see that sign outside time to change, time to chase.

It's happened.

Hasn't a gene all that you feared from that very first day when you decided that someone might be able to help you in your problem with Frank Hardison.

And there's nothing you can do.

It's too late.

It was too late the moment you let John Bradley talk you into breaking that appointment with Joey Stock.

You're sure that John went there murdered Stark for you admitted if to Lieutenant Williams to save And now they're about to prove his story.

Less than an hour later, as you all wait in your apartment, they have the cab driver who took John Bradley to Stark's hotel.

One glance and he makes the identification.

Yep, I drove him to the hotel about nine pm.

That's right, John.

Why didn't he did you wait while he went up to stock room driving?

Nope, he went up though.

I saw him walk through the lobby and start up the stairs.

I picked up another fair and drove off.

I see at all, linament.

Yeah you can go you two day.

M Wait, what's manner?

My other affair?

The fair I brought back it was him, Dan, sure your man here?

He come walking out of the hotels.

Uster Bradley went in, passed him.

How about it, Dan, I never forget a face, Lieutenant.

So that said Bradley Stark was dead when you got there, wasn't it?

You lied because you thought them miss Colin.

Yes, yes, that's the way it was.

I want to argue the point.

Then I wouldn't do much good.

I guess then you killed him.

Wait a minute, Jean, he shouldn't talk in front of the place.

Dan, let me hang.

Oh, don't worry about it.

So they put me on trial and Joey did not stay out too long.

Don't tell me what how did you even know about Joey Stock?

Oh?

I knew about a lot of things, Miss, And it wasn't just for you.

It was for Frank.

Frank.

Frank Hardison put me on that door downstairs the day you moved in here right that the envelope of the money stop leaving them and whatever Frank said.

Dan, you once said that someone else paid some medical expenses for you?

Was it Frank Hartesy, Yes, Miss Jean's Frank.

So that's why this uh, Joey Stark was no friend of Frank's who was just cheap with blackmailing Miss Jean.

But Dan to kill a man just to pay It wasn't only.

That, mister Bradley, Lieutenant, he'll be able to show you want to chase on all those eightieses of mine, you'll find one of them was Hardison.

You see, Frank Harrison is my boy.

He asked me to protect Miss Jeans.

He was the only fine thing that ever happened to him.

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