A Study in Wax

And now tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding Theatre of Drills, suspense. Tonight, we bring you a story of two men forced to live together in the frozen north. We call it a study in wax. So now, starring Mr. William Conrad and Mr. Stacey Harris, here is tonight's suspense play, a study in wax.

It was late October when the radio shack burned down. We'd have it to decide whose fault it was. Maybe Cabell with his cigarettes may be media. Anyway, I guess the whole thing began when we lost the phone transmitter and receiver.

Cabell and I had been set up to the northwest territory by the Canadian Geodetic Survey people. It was a long job. And the biggest part of it for Cabell was the loneliness. It wasn't that he was moody or anything like that.

I think he wasn't used to being out of touch with people and things he was accustomed to in the cities. Now I was the opposite. I kind of liked the loneliness. As a matter of fact, now that I think about it, we were a strange couple to hit it off the way we did.

And when he got seven months to spend alone with another man, well, he got to be sure of each other. And we thought we were until after the radio was gone. That day it burned, we stood in the snow, watching the embers glowing, and the wifsters smoke rising into the cold sky.

That's gone. Well, they still got the code, Senator, just in case. I'm going to miss the programs on music. You know, I'll tell you we can send a message to the base, if you like, and ask them to fly out another receiver.