The Man from Singapore

The mutual broadcasting system presents the Mysterious Traveler written, produced and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Cough and starring tonight three of Radio's foremost personalities Grace Copin, John Gibson and Louis Van Rooten in The Man From Singapore 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 that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little. So settle back, get a good rip on your nerves and be comfortable, if you can, as we follow the machinations of a ruthless woman.

It's a story I call, The Man from Singapore. My story begins in the San Francisco offices of the John Bates Importing Company. In a large, well furnished office, Horace Riker, a junior partner in the firm, sits behind his desk, staring unbelievably at a letter which he holds in trembling hands.

He reads the letter a second time, then agitatedly turns to the intercom box on his desk. Blanche, come in my office at once, please. Be right there. What can we say to him? What? Hey.

What is it, Lord? What's wrong? Come in, close the door. Oh, what is it? Blanche, this air mail letter I just received. He's coming back. Who is? You mean, Bates? Yes, John Bates, our senior partner.

After 25 years in the Far East, he's coming back. Flying? Yes, yes, he's leaving Singapore this Thursday. You'll be here a week from today. Leaving Singapore Thursday. Yes, Blanche. How can you stand there so calmly?

You realize what John Bates will do when he finds out? $100,000. That's how much I'm sure. Horace, get hold of yourself. I took the money for you. You've got to help me. Bates will send me to prison if you don't, and they'll make you give everything back.