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Pigeon in the Cage

Suspense · August 11, 1957 · 25 min · 3,173 words

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The suspense and the producer of radios outstanding theater of thrills, the master of mystery and adventure, William N. Ropeson. No generality is ever completely true, including that one. Take the old saw which states what people don't know and hurt them, and that other pious assurance of the triumph of good over evil, which states murder without.

The upcoming story nearly disproves both these mossy axioms. The murder almost succeeded, and the murder almost was not hurt by what he didn't know. That in the end he was forced by his own paper hanger.

Listen, listen then as Mr. Lloyd Bridges stars in Pigeon in the cage. Mr. Lloyd Bridges in Pigeon in the cage, a tale well calculated to keep you in. I'm Gerald Brewer. I'm 31 years old. I'm a paper hanger.

I got a wife and I got a kid on the way. She'd like to be home now. Wish I were out of here. Right under the button here, it says, ring in case of emergency. But nothing happens.

I'm a ring in this bell for the last hour. Nothing happens. Nobody's home. I know that. But I don't know what else to do except ring this bell. I'm stuck in an elevator in a private house between the first and second floor.

You ever had light one out a few minutes ago and I can hardly see. This elevator isn't very big. It holds all three people for... There's a lever here for floor stops. But something's going wrong. The elevator will move.

And there's two buttons here. One that rings a bell and the other for emergency stops. Overhead maybe about eight feet from the floors. little dorm maybe about six inches square. I don't know what that's for. That's pretty old out of here. Pretty old house. Can't squeeze out of it, that's for sure. Three rows of this

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