Hide Out

The mutual broadcasting system presents The Mysterious Traveler, written, produced and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Colvin, and starring two of radio's foremost actors, Lawson's Herbie and Frank Silvera, in, quite out. This is The Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying.

I hope you will enjoy the trip and it will thrill you a little and cheer you a little. So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves and be comfortable if you can, as we follow the course of a strange friendship to a startling end.

It's the story I call hideout. As we begin our story of a friendship that even murder could not destroy, the time is midnight. Somewhere nearby, a tower clock is striking the hour. In the shadows of the mouth of an alley in New York's east side, a boy is crouching, tense, frightened.

Down the deserted street approaches a man, stocky, powerfully built, expensively dressed. As he passes the mouth of the alley, the boy leaps out behind him. All right, mister. Just take him up and don't move.

Don't move. Okay, okay. Just take it easy. Whoever you are, I never argue with a gun. You better not. Now, give me a doll. Yeah, sure, sure. It's in my inside coat pocket. I'll get it out for you.

Make that stick me up. When you're I ought to plug it. Come on. Stand up. Let me see what you look like. Don't shoot me. I wasn't going to hurt you. Honest. It's just a kid.

Run. Trying to hold up big head chance to himself. You've got a lot of nerve, kid. What's your name? What do you care what my name is? Go on, call a cop. You? Oh. I said, what's your name?