Curiosity Killed the Cat

And now stay tuned for the program that has rated tops in popularity for a longer period of time than any other West Coast program in radio history. 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 shadow. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.

And now for the signal oil company, the Whistler's strange story. Curiosity killed a cat. Two people sit on an old wharf piled high with lobster traps, wooden buoys and fishness. But the dark half puzzled eyes of the young man are not on those things, nor on the distant mass of the fishing smacks and draggers scuttling into the harbor.

No, John Hawley sees only the sun bleached prettiness of the woman opposite him, and the sturdy lines of the trawler approaching the wharf. the woman in the boat belonged to Captain Daniel Bailey. Yes, John.

That's what you're thinking about, isn't it? Ever since you came home from the merchant's marine to find your childhood sweetheart married to a miserly old man, you thought how easy it should be to get Captain Bailey's trawler, his gear, his house, his money, and his wife.

And taking a job with a captain was only your first step. In favoring your bandaged finger, you pick up a brush and paint a red stripe around the lobster buoy. The mark that tells the world it's not wise to tamper with anything that belongs to Captain Donald Bailey.