Fire Fighters: The Fire Mystery pt. 5

Stand by, all stations. Attention! Attention! The true-to-life story of our unsung heroes who stand ready to ride by day or night against our most murderous enemy, the demon of fire!

In just a moment, we'll join Chief Cody and Tim Collins in the chemical laboratory of Dr. Harry Curtis, whether you've gone with a sample of the highly suspicious paint to have it analyzed. And what they learn there is more startling than any one dream.

Well, we'll pick up the threads of this fire drama right after this important message. Oh, firefighters! Let's go to the laboratory of Dr. Harry Curtis, famous scientist friend of Chief Cody's, where the Chief and Tim have gone to have the doctor analyze a sample of the mystery paint, the paint which they believe is responsible for the 12 unexplained fires that have baffled the fire department and arson squad.

Well, after a series of tests, the scientist looks up from his work and beckons to the fireman. Well, Doctor. Did you find anything that would make the pain inflammable? I am afraid not, gentlemen. Nothing? I have subjected this pain to every possible test.

As far as I can determine, there's nothing in it that could possibly cause a fire. Are you sure, sir? As a scientist, I have learned never to be sure of anything. But all my tests...

Oh! Here you are, I say. You dropped your fountain pen. Thank you. Most have fallen out of my pocket. But it's not a fountain pen. No? Well, it looks like one. I know. It's a pocket gaga counter.

A what, sir? A Geiger counter. A little gadget that tells when a material or object has radioactivity. I'll show you how it works. Just wave the Geiger counter close to an object. Say for instance the sample of paint of ours. And if it were radioactive, this little needle would waver and move.