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Quiet Please 47-06-29 (004) The Ticket Taker
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Quiet Please 47-06-29 (004) The Ticket Taker
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Play social casino void where prohibited. Visit spinquest.com for more details. The following program was specially transcribed earlier for your enjoyment at this time. Quiet, please. Quiet, please. This is the fourth of a series of unusual dramatic stories written and directed by Willis Cooper and featuring Ernest Chappell. Today's story is called the Ticket Station. I don't know where I am now. I've been wandering around for so long. I don't know where I am all by myself. Nobody seems to know me. Only thing I know for sure is one of these days I'll run into him. And then it'll all be over. I keep listening for him every place I go. I keep listening for that mingling, his shuffling footsteps and that flying voice. And I know I won't be ready for him when I do hear him. You know, you're never ready for the guy with the bad news. And he has bad news. I thought I heard something knocking at the door. Did you hear? Listen. Wait a minute. I have to be. Nobody there. Guess I'm hearing things. Don't mind me. I'm always listening for hearing. You ever do that? Well, you know that you get to hearing a lot of things. Mostly things you don't want to hear. Doc used to talk about hearing things at night. Doc was a Scotland. He used to say Scotland could hear things at night that other people couldn't. That guy could tell you stories and make your hair curl. I wish I hadn't listened to so many of them. There was a thing he used to say. I can't do that Scotch dialect. But it was about witches and warlocks. Things that gangs bump in the nick. Things that gangs bump in the nick. I got my share of him, brother. I listened for him. Jock and Ruby and me. Sitting in that room in that house on Taylor street in Chicago. Sitting there all day long with the window shades down and $22,418 there on the table. Sitting there all night long with one of us always awake with a rifle, cleaning against the winds. I wake up at 2 o' clock in the morning and be Ruby counting the money again. And the little Red glow that came in the window from the neon light across the street. Welcome to your. Shut up, will you? Oh, did I rip you up earlier? I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking. Did you get any sleep in? Just for a while. No, I didn't talk. Did anybody? The lady stopped each guy about three hours ago. But he was rooting for a woman. I looked into him talking. It'll be another hot day. Time as a jock. Wake up. Movie. Yeah, we drop. I got past three minutes. No drink at all. All right. Friday. Friday. Nine. Nine. Go downstairs, Ruby, and see if the old lady's got the coffee ready. Aye, and tell her to get the papers. Yeah, have her get the papers too. Tell her to get them. Oh, I want to get out of here. Oh, certainly all. Maybe this will be the get carried away. When I leave, I want to leave for good. Go ahead, Ruby. How much longer you think that is? Not much, I hope. Well, they got Diddy in deal. You can't hold them, you know they haven't got anything on them. Ah, if I was Diddy, I'd get this feeling to you. Keep your eye out that window, I think. Better get in the way with it, honey. Yes. Oh, boy, I'm hot. What? And more we than one, laddie. Hot and more wool than one. It's a bad joke. That's a strictly no good joke. But it's true. We are hot. Hot enough. Two down a pistol. Frank Gaffney died yesterday at Tampa Hospital with a row of bullet holes across his dummies in safe room. And if Frank's Ford never find out who did it, somebody's gonna die the hard way. Time spent back in the yard for Tough Monkey's Fan. But it's a laugh. Everybody knows Dee Dee Brangis was Frank's worst enemy. Dee Dee shot off his mouth a lot of times about a mistaken undertaker bait out of Frank. Dee Dee oughtn't to drink so much. So what happens? Frank gets a roll of 45 caliber kisses across his front porch and boom. Everybody's hollering for DeeDee. Even the cops go forth. And before you can say Yoxy washed Dee Dee's in the can. Frankie toys at Luke and polishing cannons for Dee Dee when he gets out. Oh, yes, he'd get. Nobody can prove anything except he was Frank's worst enemy. Then that's bad. Especially when nobody saw Frank get embroidered. And all the time we're sitting in this room on Taylor street with the cage bell. Then nobody knows we're in town and we've got $22,418 on the table. All we gotta do is wait. Wait till the cops caught his movie Racial Illusions from Backup. We are to catch up with Beatty and give him that old Chicago farewell. We didn't even know Frank Gaston. Old lady that sells flowers. Put the big fat figures on them for us. Funny how flowers and mob killings get mixed up together in Chicago, ain't it? Remember Deanny abandoned had that flower shop across from Holy Maine. They moved him down among the two trees a long time ago. And yes, Frank Jackson got flowers anyway. You see, it's a squeeze here. If we can hold out, the baby gets paid off for something he didn't do. The rumors will be satisfied and they'll put the artillery away and figure it to be it. And we'll be in document with a generous 418 bucks. Then everybody will be happy. The guys that paid us to the job FR thank his mom and us. Where is the captain? Take this. Turn it into a banana with your bus to go. I got the. You come off the first of getting that plug right through your trapper. Taking him that door as you do. Shut the door, you jerk. Look at the circus. Let's see. Goodbye, bd. Let me see nothing of our afternoon avenue. There's a long roof of one morning. Gaffy la everywhere. Rudy. They're all back here in the new though. What? Let's Rob's friend. They're finishing up a good next week when we get out of here. Any minute. We'll wait another couple of days just to be on the safe side. Just like we don't want to take expenses. We don't have to get out of here. Shut up and let us read the papers. They'll be out soon enough. Yes, we'll count the money again. Council money again. We'll be using that money pretty soon now. Pretty sure it won't be just pieces of colored paper. It'll be money again. Money to turn into drapes in good times. Count the money, Rudy, while we read how they found Deedee Brandis under a tree in front of a jeweler's house out on the north side. And Deedee's blood was what turned him into money. We want to be. We don't want to annoy anybody. We don't want to attract any attention. The guns of the Gaffney mob talk awful loud. And while the Rubens are sure they're village cage now that bd's on his back in the cold room. We still have to remember the boys that got Their money up one crack in a Wabash Avenue cavern. It could be our turn too. So like Doc says, we're the thing of evil and the DP we got a bo well but we got to take it easy. Find yet to keep the car. You only cut the cards to see who goes first. Jack and Ruby. Ruby. Jock and I look at each other and Ruby doesn't see us. Ruby can go first. Ruby can be the eager beaver. Ruby can be the be. Well, I don't mind waiting another day or two. He'll be next to Greg all right. If he doesn't. So now it's night. We'll be counting the money for the last time. And we put it three ways and he matched the extra for dollar so it didn't come out even then it'll be one. And he fell by. It was 9 o' clock before the doctor. When it was 10 o' clock there were still people walking around. It was 11, the war night on the top of the walk back. And it was two o' clock in the morning when we opened the door and started downstairs. Wasn't very smart of a precious to figure how we put out there in that old house so long just to be sure we'd get away alive. But talking makes people talk. You sometimes. We figured you needed some air. Would be right to let a pal walk out alone. Besides, we were going over to the Garp Elk station at Paul Said street to Jock in a minute. Ruby was going to take the L there and ride out at Cicero Avenue and then grab a streetcar south of the airport. I'll get off a couple of blocks first down the airport so I can kind of catch it in case it's a little boy hanging out. There won't be anybody really when you're all set now Ruby perfectly sure I'll do another flight. 24:10 by the time you guys go in New York. You meet us at that place next Thursday afternoon. Go get lost. I never been in the airplane this year. Don't forget the name you're using either. Mr. Masterson. Mr. Everybody asking about this. We haven't been there. Tell us about that in New York, lady. The only sound in a thick sleepy night with a lump and whistle of a lake bed three miles away.
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He didn't pass, his feet straight to the shadowy doorway. The old man came. I was sure he couldn't see us in the dark. Those vacant eyes he turned toward us were sharper than I thought. I felt too. But I felt a breath of cold air as he stopped wagging his ancient head from side to side. He thought too. Warlocks, witches and the things that go thumping the knife as doctor's always talking about. The old man flying. One of you gentlemen going on the elevator. How did he know that I know? One of you gentlemen going on the elevator. Who was he? How did he know? Was he? What do you want, old man? You're not the one going on the elevator, sir. You old man. Get a fucker. I like him. And go. I can't, sir. I've got work to do. This isn't a gentleman either. He was looking at me, ignoring the two bits that got up. You are the gentleman who. I'll have your ticket if you please, sir. Ticket? What? Your ticket please. I haven't got any ticket. On the end. You don't buy tickets to the elevator. You've got a ticket, sir. You have to have a ticket. I tell you, I didn't really. Here comes a frame. There won't be another for an hour. Okay. So long, guy. I'll have to have your ticket, sir. Old man got a ticket? What are you doing that you've got a ticket, sir? Look in your pockets. I have to have your ticket get out of here. Right in the right hand pocket, sir. Turn. That's it, sir. Thank you very much. Now I'll just punch it for you. I'm sure it's all right. You can go now, sir. Wait a quick, Ruby. We'll take care of you all, too. Good luck, sir. Look. I don't know where that came from. P.T. you missed the tree. Okay, okay. I'm sure, sir. Come on. Well, he's gone now, old man. Hey, old man. Andy. Let him go. There wasn't any old man. Jock and I stood there under the dirt to speed all by ourselves with the roar of the L train easing away westward in the early morning. With Ruby on his way home. There wasn't anybody there but the two of us. There was a bakery wagon two blocks down the street, a girl coming down the steps of the elevated station and the L plane banging its way westward blocks away. That's all they noticed. The way Jock glanced at me when we passed under the streetlight on the way home. I was looking at him the same way. They didn't say a word to each other all the way back to Taylor Street. I guess they could go thinking, maybe you'll be. Maybe that old guy was one of the gassing mobs. He really hadn't been satisfied knocking off, leaving. How did that old guy know one of us was going someplace on the elevator? How did he know which was the right one? We stalled quite a while before we went up to the room. I'm not yellow and he's a jock. Neither one of us wanted to be the first one to go in the room. We finally went in. We crawled down the hallway on our hands. I reached up in the dark and unlocked the doors. Then we stayed down on the floor so as not to make a good target. We didn't need to go through all heavy teams. There wasn't anybody in the room. We didn't sleep. Jock stepped by the window with the star off shotgun. After a while, he said, if that was putting that finger on the ring, that was awful. Well done, Adley. I didn't see anybody around. Thank God he didn't see anybody around. And the old lady put the finger on him for us. We got the news from the paper. We heard the kids down the street holler an excellent. Doc and I looked at each other without saying anything. You know what we thought? We thought the headlines would be something like, Gasly Mob Blast. Go Ruby's picture on the front page. That wasn't a headline, though. The big story Was about an airliner that crashed on the takeoff at municipal airport at 410. Everybody on board was killed and the name at the head of the passenger list was J.P. masterson of Des Moines, Iowa. I guess it wasn't. I got the neighbors know I'm all alone after everything happened. I think all the time. Well, sure, I'm alone. No justice. Didn't I tell you about Duck? I was talking about movies. Well, how about Jock? Jock and I decided Bill ticket takes the Washington. It couldn't be. How could a crazy old man have anything to do with an airplane crashing? Possible, isn't it? Well, who was he? What does that ticket that Ruby have? I was born Ruby. Didn't have any ticket except the plane ticket. We each had plane tickets. That was part of the deal, you see, all we had to do was and make our reservations whenever we wanted to get out of town. That's all the tickets we had. Doc and I got to talking about that a couple of days later. Well, I understand who the old man was, not what he had to do with it all. But it wasn't enough for me on this. What are you gonna do? Look, Larry, the prince didn't cost me anything. You see. And regardless whether the old picket man had anything to do with it, I'm not gonna ride on no airplane for nobody. Yes, but what do you. I'm gonna bus. I bus. I'll think myself a few dollars. This is only one minute I. Neighbor, you ever heard of a buck cracking up in the fire? And when I get to New York, I'll catch in the airplane ticket and I'll be a few more dollars a week. You come and do with me. No, I was going to take the train. Listen, Marion, I don't care whether Frank Dusty Glads are on to us or not. But when they are, they'd be more likely to hang about the railway stations than about the bus terminals. We'll see. Think you got something there. And another thing, I mean there'll be no nonsense to get tickets on our bus. I wish I knew what that old guy get me. Old guy. I wish I could forget him. I wish I could forget him right now. That's all I want of him. Who is he? What are those tickets? Let me tell you about Jock and me. We went down to the bus memory. I was a bunchpreneur for 8 trip. I remember what I did. I gave Jock all of my share of the money. Was just a couple of hundred doll. We were going to be together on the bus and he had the money, Bill. I wish I had some events, though right now I could go to, I guess. Well, we're standing around the bus station down in Wabash Avenue waiting for the fellow to call ours. We were standing there just waiting and listening. Then all of a sudden there was one of those silences and I heard. May I have your ticket, sir? Where did he come from? I came from a ticket size. You're a ticket, please. I haven't got very long to wait. I haven't got anything but my basket. Yes, you have. Look in your pocket. Who are you, old man? I want his ticket. He hasn't got any tickets. Yes, he has. I haven't got in your pocket. That's it. That's it. Thank you. I wish you a very pleasant giant. Now, wait a minute. I want to know who you are and his squad. Goodbye, old man. Listen, Doc, I'm gonna find out about you. I gotta let him go. Where'd he go? Never mind where he went. Listen. He grabbed into the crowd. Let him go. We're going to cut the little boy this time. Well, what are you go. Listen, I think he knows what Butler is going on. I'm gonna go put that to the blue side and we can connect and buy some cigarettes or something. And I'll go get the ticket while he's watching me go on bigger. He'll get here in five minutes. I don't like it. I don't like it at all. But Jock has got a good idea, so I'll try it. He goes to the ticket window. I ease my way through the door out into the street. Something you forgot. He arranged that airplane. I come out. I don't see him anything. Jock, where'd you go? This Billy Dale went way. Where did you come from? I was watching your friend. Where is he? He's gone. What? He's gone, Franny. Did he run out on me with all that money? Oh, no. Well, where is he? He wouldn't really see him now, friend. He had an accident. He's that what being sat in front of the bus over there and I'm afraid he's dead. What are you telling me? It's quite all right, you know, I have a. Did you. You killed him. Oh, no. You killed him, I tell you. Shut up your gun. I shot him. I shot him right through the chest. Twice. I was six inches away from him and I couldn't miss. I couldn't miss at that distance, could I? I figured that he was one of the gasoline lobby get me anyway. So I was gonna Go out with a bang, right through the chest. I shot him. And you know what? He wasn't there at all. There wasn't anybody there at all. Except a copper from Harrison Creek staring at me as if he thought I was a nut. How do you feel tonight, Bud? That old man. I got him. What old man? He killed my friend. He's one of the ghastly mobs. Old man Little talking about. Where is he? Holes in a brick wall. He was right here. There ain't nobody there. Give me that gun. He's gone away. Listen, cop. I'll have the gun, Bud. All right, you people, move on. Come on, bud. It's 30 days for shooting off guns in public places. Why, you might have hurt somebody. And they laughed when they left me out. Am I crazy? I don't know. I, I. I can't hear anything. I know he was there when I shot him. I didn't hear. Don't tell me I'm nutty. Listen. Listen. It's him. It's him. You hear him? That's the ticket taker. He's not gonna get me. You have to have a ticket to get knocked off. And I haven't got any tickets. You're not gonna get me, old man. I haven't got any tickets. I'm not going to answer it. There isn't anybody there. You see? There wasn't anybody there. There isn't any ticket taker. I've been dreaming things. All the time. I've been dreaming. What is it you have written to Quiet 3, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper. The man who spoke to you was Ernest Cattle, Miss George Buston. The others were Lawrence Fox and the policeman Rockwell. The music is composed and played by Gina. The preceding program was especially transcribed earlier for your enjoyment at this. Quiet, please. Will no longer be heard at this time. 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