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Doctors Wife

The Whistler · October 28, 1951 · 29 min · 4,181 words

The transcript of “Doctors Wife”, an episode of The Whistler first broadcast October 28, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Whistler plays The Whistler free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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And now stay tuned for the Mystery Program that is unique among all Mystery Programs. Because even when you know who is guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at the final curtain. In the Signal Oil Program, the Whistler.

Signal, the famous Go Father gasoline invites you to sit back and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler. I am the Whistler, and I know many things, for I walk by night. I know many strange tales, hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows.

Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak. And now for the signal oil company, the Whistler's strange story, the Doctor's Wife. The Boston firm of Benakie and Woodruff, dealers and antiques, art objects and rare books, has welcomed scholars and collectors into its long, narrow and dimly lit showrooms for

over 100 years. And since 1850, the same motto and neat goal letters on the plate glass window reads, a firm of integrity. But Charles Benakie, one of the present owners of Benakie and Woodruff, is too restless a man to follow in the traditional footsteps of his forebears. Even now, though his policies have brought the firm to the brink of disaster, Charles remains self-assured and unruffled,

as he enters the showrooms late in the afternoon, walks back to the office of his partner Paul Woodruff. Here you are, Paul. Yes, here I am. Well, I did some good. Did you forge another letter by Keats or was it Shakespeare this time?

lower your voice what for because if I have to spend the next 10 years in jail I assure you you will be in an adjoining sale thanks okay what happened they proved the key to that it was a forgery but they couldn't prove we or should I say I did it but in as much as we guaranteed the letter in the bill of

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