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01:09I'd have sworn someone was standing right behind me. I

01:13Started to turn and I heard something come down over me

01:15I tried to duck at a ripping sound and blood running wildly down my arm a knife

01:21I tried to grab the arm. I couldn't reach it. The knife was coming down again

01:31You

01:37The new adventures of Michael Shane private detective

01:40This is your director Bill Russo inviting you to listen to another transcribed episode with Michael Shane that reckless redheaded Irishman

01:47Back in his old haunts in New Orleans

01:49We call it the case of the blood-stained pearl

02:00Oh

02:08Okay, okay, I'm coming

02:13Next time when I bring along an axe

02:18He I want you to lock the door now look I want you to lock the door mr.

02:22Shane, let's just snap a double lock for now and hope for the best

02:25Hey, where you going?

02:30Who are you talking about pop

02:35They boil me in oil skin me alive copy the ribs to find out I look you better slow down

02:40You're gonna burn out of berries galleons. Halliwags cutthroats licks people and chicken inspectors

02:44What are these friends of yours trying to find any old business? You just keep that nosy. I'm out here. Hey. Hey, remember you came to me

02:50Oh, oh

02:53Jesus also infuriating makes my blood boil sweat does

02:57Three dear friends for six years. We've shared the same little houseboat same skimpy fare

03:03We've watched 2,000 sunsets. We've talked

03:0710,000 hours of the night away now

03:11Mr. Shane what your rates for God in a man's life possessions

03:14I kind of think I might be a little too rich for your blood all the time

03:17Oh a little too rich for my blood what I do indeed. Well, well, well, mr.

03:21I suppose you come to that remarkable decision just by looking at that just a coat these pants and cardboard my shoes too rich for my

03:28Blood let's shed a tear for me poor man. P. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings feelings

03:33Why the feelings I come here on business my life's in peril my possessions and jeopardy

03:38Despite your outrageous rates. I'll pay out of my meager safe and just what are these possessions? You want me to protect wait?

03:45Hey, hey leave those window shades alone. It's dark lovers. It isn't here

03:51Now mr. Shane now, this is what I want you to protect the contents of this little leather bag

03:59Yes, here's what this pitiful old man wants you to protect

04:05Yes, mr. Shane, yes, this is what they killed me for the palm of my hand I hold three pearls

04:13worth a million dollars

04:22In a moment, we'll return to Mike Shane and the case of the blood-stained pearls

04:41It had started like any other day a

04:44Widow named mrs. Coppola said hired me to track down one of her borders who'd run away with her copper samovar

04:50and I fear the good widows heart a

04:53Guy had called to ask my rates for getting divorce evidence against his blonde wife

04:59Then an old man named Peters came in the kind of old guy you might see in Jackson Square

05:05Sleeping on the grass with a newspaper over his face

05:08Only this old man had a million dollars worth of the biggest pearls. I'd ever seen in my whole life

05:13Well, how do you like him? Mr. Shane? Yeah, you could use him for snowballs. Where'd you get him?

05:19I found it three weeks ago a little cove along the Mississippi not so many years ago

05:23This part the river was one of the favorite haunts of pirates like a feet

05:27This might have been part of his treasure lost in the sea washed up by the tides. Yeah

05:32Give him back to me. Give me a give me a he held him long enough. Yeah, they're all yours

05:36But hey, do you ever have him appraised by a jeweler? I wouldn't trust him out of my sight

05:39Even my own friends would kill me for how do you know they're worth a million bucks?

05:43I've got the library looked up pearls and all encyclopedias. I've compared them with the descriptions at a very finest

05:49There is no comparison

05:52Mine are the most beautiful pearls of them all and they take him from me

05:56Imagine that my own friends. Oh, you were smart. You'd sell no good jeweler and forget him. I'll never sell him

06:01What could anyone give me have so beautiful as these pearls themselves?

06:05Yeah, I bet you a million dollars all stacked up real need is kind of beautiful sides looking at an encyclopedia

06:10What's that? Well, you know, these pearls came out of a popcorn box and you're all upset about nothing

06:15Oh, you think so? You think so? Hey nothing. Well, alright, let's go to a jeweler. I saw one down the street. Oh, yeah

06:21Mr. Forrest mind you I won't sell him no matter what the price but let him look at him. Mr. Shane

06:25Let him tell you what they were

06:33Well, mr. Forrester, then go on tell his mr. Shane what they were he thinks he might have come out of a

06:39Was it a popcorn box didn't go on go on tell him I've never seen anything like them. Mm-hmm

06:46They're priceless. You're here. Mr. Shane. You're here. You're here now. Give him back to me. Give me here. Give me here

06:50Yes, of course my beautiful little ladies now, mr. Shane knows your worth. Yes. No, he won't walk you

06:55What would you say they were worth? Mr. Forrester? I wouldn't even try to give you an estimate. Mr. Shane. Thanks. Mr

07:01Forrester, come on pop back to my office

07:09Oh

07:13Okay, pop have a seat

07:16Now you take me seriously, mr. Shane these people who you think are trying to take the pearls I don't think I know they give

07:22Me for yeah. Yeah. All right. You say you live with him on a houseboat, huh?

07:26Yeah, I'll be at 22 on River Highway. And did you tell him about the pearl?

07:30Oh, of course not, but I know they're spying on me continually away. Excuse me

07:35Yeah

07:39Yeah

07:43Why

07:47Yeah

07:50What's that I didn't want to break his heart I could see what the pearls meant to him and as long as he ever tries

07:58to sell them

08:00Why should we hurt?

08:02You mean?

08:04Nothing

08:09How do you like that I wish I hurry I don't have all day. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thanks. Thanks for calling. Goodbye

08:18Now, mr. Shane now we can talk business. I've already gotten a business but go on. Mr. Peters

08:27So old man Peters hired me to protect his five dollars worth of imitation pearls I

08:33Overcame the real Shane long enough to tell him he could pay me at the end of the month by which time I was sure

08:37He'd be out of my hair. He left the office and I forgot about it Ben one night

08:42He caught me in one of my less happy moods. The office rent was two weeks overdue three of my checks had bounced

08:47I was stretched out on my couch feeling jollier than words can say and the phone started ringing. Yeah

08:53Look Peters, I wish you'd stop calling me

08:55Are you anyhow

09:00What is it now

09:04Look this is not good. It's bad for you and it's bad for me you you come up to my office

09:08I'm gonna break it to you gently

09:11You just come on up

09:15You'll tell me when you get there we'll trade little secrets

09:25Oh

09:28Okay, pop, okay, do you always have to knock like that?

09:31Look, if you break the glass, you're gonna have to hock all your pearls to pay for it. Come on in

09:36Hey, hey pop. What's wrong?

09:42Old man Peters was dead before he hit the floor. I don't know how he ever lived to reach my office

09:46There were four bullet holes in his back as he fell his left arm flung out wildly his left fingers doubled into a fist

09:52I bent down to see what was in that fist

09:55It was his most priceless possession bag of phony pearls

09:59Before calling the cops. I put the pearls in my pocket because now I was gonna make it my business to find out who'd kill

10:04the old man

10:06After the cops finished questioning me. I really felt beat

10:09I went home to my hotel room and arranged my weary bones around the lumps in the mattress drifted off to sleep

10:17And I had to drift right back again

10:22Yeah

10:25Shane this is mr. Tompkins. Yeah Tompkins. Yeah, what's without the office building? Oh, oh, yeah

10:31I thought I'd better call you know what happened

10:34Somebody broke in your office a while ago

10:37When was this?

10:49No, no, that's what makes it so wonderful to be poor good night

10:55I

10:56Hung up and started going back to sleep

10:59Just before I made it

11:00I suddenly started thinking about the little bag of phony pearls was right now in the rear pocket of the pants hanging over my dresser

11:07All of a sudden I wasn't nearly as sleepy as I thought. I

11:12reached my cigarettes under my pillow and

11:16Someone was trying to fit a key into my door

11:19The tiny grating sound continued a couple seconds more in the door would open I started with my gun on the dresser

11:25I heard the lock snap back

11:30Heard a quick move in the hall, I grabbed a gun a race to the door

11:33All was empty

11:34Nothing, but closed doors with numbers on him. The only sound was a guy in one of the rooms whimpering in his sleep a nice

11:40peaceful scene

11:42Five seconds ago. I'd been close enough to death to smell it

11:46What it been?

11:48What old man Pete has been afraid of

11:51That was an easy one. It's three pounds on the houseboat. I remember how I'd laughed to myself when he told me

11:56They'd kill him for the pearls

11:58Funny thing. I wasn't laughing anymore. I

12:02Had the pearls now

12:10In a moment, we'll return to Mike Shane in the case of the blood-stained pearls

12:19You

12:30It all started when a little old guy named Peters came to my office with a wild story of three pearls worth a million dollars

12:38Forrester a jeweler said they were worth five bucks the outside and they were paste

12:44Anyhow, somebody thought enough of the pearls to kill the old man now I had them and somebody was trying to kill me

12:51The next morning when I went down to my battered old office, I found a telegram among the ruins

12:57Would like to see you this evening regarding the death of our friend George Peters. It was an address

13:04It was dark by the time we got there the cab had worn out three maps and his smiling disposition

13:09Five miles out of town right in the middle of nothing

13:13Rotting wooden pier sticking into the water. Maybe 20 feet at the end of it a battered old tug

13:20That'll be 275. Okay. Yeah

13:24Sure, sorry. I dragged you out this far ain't half so sorry as I am friend. Oh, wait for me

13:28We'll I'll be right back

13:30Hey, hey wait, hey

13:34In the darkness the lights of New Orleans seemed a thousand miles away

13:39I started down the wooden pier. There were lights somewhere on the tug. It didn't seem to be anything living around yet

13:46Mosquitoes I helped

13:49Started looking for somebody and I heard someone singing

13:54Followed the sound on the stairway leading down into the hold of the ship

13:59The old guys were sitting on orange crates near a big pot-bellied coal stove

14:04One who was singing looked like Moses must have looked

14:07Complete with a flaming red beard

14:15Just hearing it makes me feel a little better

14:19Who are you? What do you want? I'm Michael Shane

14:24Brown

14:27Mr. Brown just singing for mr. Peters favorite song. Oh George never get tired of hearing it

14:34What we do for you, mr. Shane I got a wire asking me to come down here I sent the wire mr. Shane

14:39Hmm. What would you come? Oh

14:42My niece, mr. Shane, why'd you send for him Eve to his side of each side?

14:48Peters died in your office according to the papers. Mr. Shane. That's right. He papers also said he can't seem to find a motive for the

14:54crime

14:55You want Rob?

14:57Say they found his wallet his mom. That's all they found. Oh, is there something else to find? Mr. Brian Eve, you see? Yeah

15:04I think you better go. Mr. Shane, but I've got some questions to ask to last night

15:09So long long trail. Oh, hey, well, tell this guy to shut up

15:13Get out. Mr. Shane get out of my sight

15:21I can take a hint as well as the next guy

15:24Besides there was something in old Brown's eyes when he turned on me

15:27Well, maybe it was a crazy red beard. Anyhow, all of a sudden I wanted to be in the open air again

15:33With the cab gone. There was nothing between me and New Orleans, but a long long trail of winding like the man said I

15:41Started hiking down the road must have walked two miles before I came to the gas station

15:46Was all locked up for the night, but there was a phone booth outside. I

15:50Called for a cab then as I hung up I'd have sworn somebody was standing right behind me. I

15:57Started to turn I tried to duck had a ripping sound a knife

16:01I tried to grab the arm and instead my fingers closed around the blade

16:05I felt the blade cutting into the flesh. There wasn't any pain. Just a warm wetness. I couldn't reach the knife

16:11I found his wrist with my teeth. I put down hard

16:14I

16:15Hit the ground then I grabbed for the guy my fingers closed around a handful of hair

16:19He tore himself running off down the road. I

16:23Just flopped down on the ground

16:27After a while, I flipped my cigarette lighter to take inventory of the wreckage

16:32That was some mess

16:34One hand looked like second quality hamburger. The other hand was okay. It still held a fistful of hair

16:41red hair

16:43Yeah, I'd just given mr. Brown's beard a trim the hard way

16:53The cab showed up about an hour later

16:55Instead of going to the city. I headed back to a pier 22

16:59It was just groggy enough and mad enough to want the rest of that red beard. I

17:03Marched down the gangway again this time. There was only Eve putting a coffee pot on the stove

17:08She heard me and she turned

17:11Where is he? I'm gonna kill him. Where is he? You're hurt. Look at you. Never mind

17:15I just tell me where I can get my hands on that beard at all

17:20Only for a minute

17:23Good heavens, mr. Shane. Just look at you. Yeah, nice old man. You're mr. Brown. Hey easy with the Cody

17:28Yeah, take the arm right with you. Mr. Brown didn't yeah, he sure did. I've got half his red beard to prove it

17:33I was afraid something like this was gonna happen. I don't know what to say. You better say with my curicrom advantages

17:39Yeah, I didn't think it was this bad myself

17:54Hey, I think I'll hold you till you can get to a doctor. Yeah

17:59Regular Florence Nightingale, aren't you?

18:02Yeah, I bet you Florence never wore blue jeans and a green sweater

18:06You still look pretty weak, mr. Sheena, I'll get you a cup of coffee. Yeah a good idea

18:10Of course, I like my mama's way better. Huh? When I got hurt she used to kiss it better

18:17I'll get the coffee. I was talking about mama

18:20How much sugar you really got a one-track mind Eve to lumps?

18:25Well, as long as you don't want to discuss mama, let's get back to old man problem. Where is he now?

18:35That's good

18:37You know, I'm glad you're not in on this, you know, what this whole business Peters pearls brown. I don't understand

18:44Oh, of course, you don't understand

18:46It takes a particular kind of woman understand now. I've been in this racket so long I can spot a wrong game like that

18:53That's a mock. Oh, nothing remarkable about it. Even they'll they'll say something

18:58Oh look at you in a certain way you get to know you you get to feel

19:02Drinking coffee is getting cold. Mr. Sheena. Yeah

19:06Yeah, everything they do the perfume they wear the way they dress everything's a promise you'll fall for the promise and end up in the

19:12Gutter, I understand people like that, honey

19:15But you don't understand people like mr. Brown. Do you mr. Sheena? What's it? I understand

19:21bag of pearls explains everything

19:24Ferocious red beer know what he was

19:28Milk man in Chicago. Yeah, it should have stayed there trapped in a dull monotonous job

19:33Yeah after you

19:35Find a pension also, it could crawl into a column back. Yeah, my uncle and poor. Mr. Peters

19:42They're like that, too

19:44wasting the last precious years

19:47But always dreaming of escape. I

19:50Didn't hear they're skating this old house boot on the Mississippi

19:54Who'd ever been in a hand to buy?

19:56It was worth it. Okay. I don't

20:01See old men were

20:03Can't imagine how fun they came

20:07Something wrong, mr. Shane

20:11Sick stomach what your faith in me was a little premature. Mr. Shane. I poisoned your coffee. I

20:26Started for the gangway and then the gangway subdivided like something under a microscope and there were two gangways

20:32Then there were four and then there were gangways everywhere I hung on all the railings

20:37Tried climbing all the stairs and then barring my way was Eve's uncle. Mr. Johnson. Only it was a whole row of mr

20:43Johnson's and they were all holding ancient guns. I remember rushing past

20:49Rushing through the cold air. I remember falling to my knees just as I heard all the ancient guns go on

20:54I

20:56Think I saw in all the world

20:59Headlights of the taxicab. I told her wait. My last thought was how funny

21:05Most taxicabs had only two headlights, but this one had half a million

21:11I

21:21Looks like he's coming out of a duck. Yes. He's a lucky boy

21:24Jane, you must have cornered the market on four-leaf clovers. You had enough poison and you take it easy. Mr

21:30Shane you're gonna be all right. It was this Eve. He's talking

21:34He's

21:36Can't driver brought you here gave us the address

21:39Now look you go to sleep kiddo. I'll pick him up. Oh, oh wait for me. I have me my pants doc. Mr

21:45Shane, I absolutely won't be responsible for wearing my pants

21:49After what I've taken from those three, I wouldn't miss a payoff if it took my last corpse, but mr. Shane

21:54Well, you have me my pants

21:56inspector now

21:57Since I'm the guy they ran through the meat grinder. Would you let me finish it off my way? What do you mean Shane?

22:03On the way out to the houseport. I want to pick up a jeweler named Forrester

22:11So we picked up Forrester the poor guy was so scared to hear his pounding on his door at 2 in the morning

22:17I thought he'd never lived to make the houseboat

22:19It was almost free when we got there

22:21But even Brown and Johnson was still up sitting around the red-hot coal stove like they've been expecting us right along

22:28Eve jumped up as we clattered down the gangway. Mr. Shane. Thank you. All right

22:32Yeah, yeah that coffee. It was better than tonic. You oughta bottle it Eve. You really have something there

22:37Mr. Brown your beard doesn't look quite so flowing tonight. Okay inspector take over

22:42I'm arresting all three of you on the charge of murder before you take him away. I want to show him this

22:48Yeah, kiddies. Here's a bag of pearls. I had him on me all the time. Yeah, here's what you killed old man Peters

22:54No, shut up

22:55You and all that corny talk about friendship the three old buddies sitting in the Sun

22:59Yeah blood brothers until one of them found a bag of pearls. Then it was his blood. Don't you say that?

23:03I'm not through baby. I'm just full of surprises like they say in the minstrel show, honey. You ain't heard nothing yet

23:08Here's what you killed old man Peters for a million dollars worth of pearls

23:12Mr. Forrester. Yes, mr. Shane. Tell him what these pearls are really worth

23:17By the apiece. They're not worth five dollars. You hear that?

23:20That's what you shot the old man in the back for a bag of phonies

23:23And here's where the phonies are going right where poor old Peter should have thrown him in the first place right into the stove

23:28Right into the fire

23:53In a moment, we'll be back with a thrilling climax to tonight's Michael Shane adventure

23:59You

24:12Someone finally pulled Forrester's arm out of the fire while we waited for an ambulance Forrester blubbered out the whole story

24:20How he killed Peters for the pearls how he'd come into the hallway of my hotel that night would have killed me for him

24:26How he'd have killed a thousand times for such wonders as those priceless jewels now, I'd destroyed them I

24:33Didn't hear much of it. I just flopped down let my head fall on my chest

24:38All that had happened was finally catching up with me

24:42Then as the inspector started up the gangway, I waved for him to come over. What is it Shane?

24:47Here inspector give these to the museum or something the pearls

24:52Yeah, I don't understand well the way Forrester acted when we picked him up tonight got me to wondering I thought why take a chance

25:00So all I threw into the fire was a cloth bag

25:04Shane, you know, there are times when I almost wish you'd joined the force. Yeah

25:08With all my other troubles, that's all I'd need. Okay, kid. See you around Mike. Yeah

25:14Feeling better. Yeah, I feel beautiful

25:18You thought we killed mr. Peters for the pearls. Hmm

25:22We thought you killed him for him

25:25We love the old man so much. That's why we tried to kill you

25:27You know, he if you can be arrested for that if I want to press charges that is

25:33Do you want to?

25:37Mr. Wadden all wasted

25:39I

25:42Need to widen our wasted

25:44Please stop. That's right. Yeah. Yeah big deal

25:48Well, I better be going. I'm pretty busy. Must you go my

25:55Cold air

25:57This time morning cut right through you and if I stay what would you do to keep me warm?

26:04I'll make him

26:05nice pad coffee

26:07Yeah

26:09Good night

26:22This is your director Bill Russo Michael Shane is written by Larry Marcus and based on characters created by Brett Halliday

26:30Music is composed and conducted by John Duffy and Michael Shane is portrayed by Jeff Chandler

26:35The adventures of Michael Shane is a Don Sharp production transcribed in Hollywood and distributed exclusively by the broadcasters guilt

26:43Next week Mike Shane against his will gets involved in an exciting story of romance and intrigue. I hope you'll be listening

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