The Lost Ones

You're twice as sure with two great names. Frigidaire and General Motors. Frigidaire presents Herbert Marshall as the man called X. Whatever there is in this intrigue, romance, in all the strange and dangerous places of the world, there you will find the man called X.

Frigidaire. And all Frigidaire presents Herbert Marshall as Ken Thurston, the man called X. I tell you Ken, this thing has to be stopped. Thousands of lives for its take, man. Stop pounding the desk cheap and tell me about it.

I just got in from Colorado this morning. Remember? Oh, good Lord. Can, of course. This thing has me so worked up, I... Lord, here. Take a look at this wall, man. You see this town in Arizona near the Mexican border?

No, Gala. What about it? Somewhere down there, a deadly plague is spreading. And it could run wild over the whole country. Smallpox. Smallpox. Six deaths down there in the past week and a half. Other cases being reported almost daily.

Last year, Pup button in California. A few months ago, here in New York. Now it's down there near New Gallis. If anybody's guess, where it'll hit next. Any idea where the carriers are coming from?

Four of the six dead men down there appeared in the territory only a couple of weeks ago. They carried no American papers or identification. And the Mexican border only a broad jump away. Right. Somebody smuggling aliens across the border and there smuggling in the smallpox.

So long, Chief. All right now, Dr. Clark, you were the physician who reported the last case here in New Gala, yes, weren't you?

Yes, but I don't know anything more about the dead man than you do, Mr. Tristan. Neighbors called me in. He was delirious when I got there. When he did talk, it was Spanish. Nothing made him much dead.