Quiet Please - Three

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The mutual broadcasting system presents Quiet Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper and Teacher's Ernest Cappell.

Quiet Please for tonight is called Free.

Practically nobody is named Sebastian.

And I have taken in my lifetime a good deal of kidding about my name.

Sebastian is an unusual name and I greatly amateur a humorous scene to enjoy working on it.

And when Evelyn was right-side revisited came out, at least seven of my friends sent me huge teddy bears.

If you just happen to need a teddy bear.

But I didn't come here to talk about teddy bears.

I thought maybe you might help me.

What do you think I can tell you?

May I?

Well, it's kind of, I suppose you'd say it's an obsession.

On the other hand, I guess you have to have a thing quite a while before you could call it an obsession.

This has only been bothering me since day before yesterday.

So I suppose maybe we'd better call it a premonition.

I was walking down the street and it was absolutely nobody near me.

And the voice pulled to me right in my ear.

A very quiet little voice.

You just said one word.

Three.

Did you hear it?

What was it?

I tell you there wasn't anybody near me there.

There wasn't anybody within a block of me.

Well, I thought that I was hearing things.

You know how it is.

You think you hear your name called or something.

It's just some kind of subconscious thought.

It's a way into whatever you're thinking of.

Well, maybe it doesn't.

Maybe somebody does call you somewhere.

And I don't know.

I suppose I might have forgotten it except for one thing.

I walked down to the office and I went into the lobby.

I stood in front of the elevator.

A door opened, finally.

I got in.

Another man got in behind me.

He stood right in front of the door in the middle of the car.

The operator started to close the door and the other man spoke.

Green.

And it suddenly came.

It was the same voice.

And I was suddenly seized with the most dreadful fear I've ever known.

I scrambled past the man as the doors grew together.

Hey, look, mister, what do you think of me?

I mean, well, for Pete's sake, make up your mind.

Will you?

I stood panicking in the car.

Watching the indicator above the door as the car went up.

Two.

Three.

We haven't found out yet what caused it.

Apparently, the operator, who was a new man,

mishandled the controls at the very floor and the car dropped down to the sub-basement.

No way of telling, of course, because the operator was killed.

We think we're fortunate, however, that there was nobody else in the car.

Did you hear that?

There was nobody else in the car.

Well, what about the man who said three?

No.

Nothing more happened that first day.

I walked upstairs to my house and I stayed there.

I didn't do very well on the job that day.

Oh, yes, I forgot something didn't happen.

No, nothing like the elevator thing.

It was just the telephone.

And rang three times at three o'clock in the afternoon.

No, I know there's nothing unusual about a telephone ringing three times.

Only this one had picked up a receiver when it rang the first time and it rang two more times.

Two phones don't do that.

That was all the first day.

I went home very carefully.

I remember I waited at the corner very conscientiously until a number three bus went past.

I'll never write a number three bus again.

I walked the extra four blocks and write a number twelve.

It was pretty conscious of that number.

I saw trees everywhere.

Three men in the restaurant.

I began looking for trees, three letters in my mailbox.

I had found trees everywhere.

Three pennies fell out of my trousers pocket when I was undressing.

It was black wartime ones made out of sink or something.

You don't see many of these.

Hey, they look somehow sinister lying there in the bed spread.

Three black pennies.

All of a sudden I remembered they used to put pennies on dead men's eyes.

And then I thought, there's three of them.

I haven't got three eyes.

You know what? I said to myself.

I wonder.

I wonder if maybe I had got three eyes.

And I walked over to the mirror and looked.

No.

No, I haven't got three eyes.

But you see what a thing like this can do to you?

I had that settle and I went in the bathroom and I took down the pills and I took three of them.

I remember just as I was drifting off the three pills or enough to put a man to sleep permanently.

But I shouldn't do that thing about it.

Man.

Oh no, no.

I didn't go to sleep permanently.

I woke up.

You guess what time?

I didn't sleep anymore.

I set up and smoked cigarettes.

When it was daylight at last I dressed and went out.

First though I counted the cigarette but I had smoked one whole package and thirteen besides.

You can count it up.

And the street was deserted during the morning.

I walked past the movie house.

The sign of the marquee said, last three days.

Coming down to the office.

I walked all the way.

I walked upstairs.

This was only seven o'clock in the morning.

I unlocked the door.

And there were three men in my office at seven o'clock in the morning.

I just stood there and looked at them.

Good morning Sebastian.

Who are you?

My name is Lee Sebastian.

What are you doing in my office at this time of the day?

Sebastian.

This is Mr. Takes.

Good morning Sebastian.

I said, what are you doing in my office?

And this is Mr. Gay Sebastian.

Did you hear me?

What are you doing here?

Please Sebastian.

Are you answering me or do I have to call an officer?

I think we'll put the desk over here.

I'd like it better along this wall, Lee.

You have to have a new rug and new draperage.

Listen you three.

What is it Sebastian?

Speak up Sebastian.

I don't know what you're doing in my office.

Oh, that don't mind me.

Of course not.

How about the filing cases Lee?

I don't want them.

Do you gain?

I'm sure I don't.

What?

What are you doing here?

Do you hear me?

Why Sebastian?

We're just looking it over and deciding on the changes.

We don't like it this way.

And what business is it of yours?

What are you doing?

We're going to move in here.

You what?

When you leave.

What are you talking about?

I'm not going to leave.

Yes, you are.

I am not.

Certainly you are Sebastian.

Are you people crazy?

Why no Sebastian?

Are you?

I don't know what you're talking about tonight.

Sebastian, come here.

Over here by the window.

No, you're not going to get me to that window.

I want you up too.

I'm going to get a policeman.

You're wrong.

We're not going to push you out.

I should say you're not.

We don't have to.

Of course not.

Josh, look, Sebastian.

I looked out the window.

And right below me was the sign on the movie house I told you about.

Big red letters they said.

Last three days.

But I hadn't noticed before.

From maybe it wasn't there before.

The three had a big red X across it.

And there was a tool painted on top of it.

And when my eyes had focused again I turned around.

There wasn't anybody in the room but me.

Yeah, that's right.

The door was closed and there's only one door.

The only thing that was different from the way I'd left it yesterday was the calendar pad on my desk.

And there were just three pages left on it.

And the top one had a big red X across it.

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I never took a drink in my life before 5 o'clock.

I seldom touched the stuff that I...

...and I go keep a bottle in my best for an occasional client who likes an event in the daytime.

I took two nips.

And I got very brave and very matter of fact when I found the second one.

Well after the third one I went out in the hall and I walked downstairs.

The elevator starter was just coming to work.

He looked at you with a very strange expression when the whiskey and I spoke to him a loud voice about three strange men invading an office at seven and nine.

And then he asked me more or less politely to describe the man.

You know, I couldn't remember a single thing about any one of the three.

He looked at me as if I were crazy.

And I remembered what Dixit said.

No, we're not crazy Sebastian. Are you?

I don't know.

Maybe I am.

A man can't be haunted by a number, can he?

Or can he?

You remember what I told you about being careful about the number three bus?

But a number three bus ran into a light standard last night and caught on fire.

No, only one man was killed. I saw a picture in the paper.

I thought there was something familiar about his face.

And then it came to me.

I walked over to the mirror above the washstand of the corner.

Why?

Why the man looked not like me to be my twin brother?

Want to be me for that matter?

What is this thing?

So...

So then I sat down at the desk and I thought some more.

Maybe...

Maybe I've been working too hard.

Maybe...

Well...

Anyway, I gotta do something about it.

And what?

Um, call up Dr. Mandel.

I say to myself.

Well, Dr. Mandel can tell me if I'm going crazy.

Or what?

Give me the phone.

I'd see what.

What's his number?

Four, four, eight, seven.

Good morning.

Will we be of service to you?

What?

I said, good morning.

Will we be of service to you?

Is this Dr. Mandel's office?

Oh, mine, I'm sir.

Is this four, eight, seven?

This is the beverage funeral part, sir.

What?

The understeaker, sir.

Isn't this four, eight, seven?

No, sir.

This is three, three, three, three.

How did I get that number?

All right.

Couldn't visit that much.

Four,

Oh, eight, seven.

Good morning.

Will we be of service to you?

Who is this?

You dial three, three, three, three, sir.

This is the beverage funeral part.

I'm sorry.

All right.

I can't be that drunk.

Good morning.

Will we be of service to you?

Oh, but I'm sure going to be.

Where's that bottle?

This is the telephone company.

Look here.

There's an insane man who keeps dialing this number

and telling me it's the wrong one.

Can't you put a stop to it?

Or three solid hours now he's been ringing this number.

And we have clients who are old to take care of.

Well, I don't care what you do, but stop that man.

No matter what I dialed, it always came out three, three, three, three.

I call Dr. Mandel.

I call the police.

I call my uncle Hubert.

And always there was that man with a fat voice wanting to be of service.

Good morning.

May we be of service to you?

That was yesterday.

Today.

Oh, yes, that was up to three this morning.

Have somebody invited me?

No, no.

I'm getting off the tide of these things happening to me too.

But you should complain.

Well, they're not happening to you.

Oh, I want from you with a little sympathy.

Or at least the chance to tell my story.

Just tell my story.

No, really, I'm sorry.

I just need stuff that's beginning to get me down.

Beginning.

Got you.

I don't know what's happening to me.

Either somebody's trying to make me lose my mind.

It's suicide or something or...

Or it's true.

All I can hear it.

Three.

Three man.

Three.

Three days.

And now there's only one day left.

And the second leaves him like half of the pattern.

Big red X on it this morning.

And everywhere I go, things happen in trees.

I hear streetcar goons.

I hear them all being born.

I hear that sound door.

I hear noises in my hands.

Come over to them.

I remember I heard on the radio

that there's going to be a radio program

that I call three.

What are they doing to me?

Help me, please.

Do something.

Please, please, please.

Do you hear that?

You hear the way I'm talking?

You hear me?

So bastard.

Look, look, I can't stand it any longer.

I've got to do something.

It'll be three o'clock in just a little while

and I know that's going to be the deadline.

I know it.

So do you know it, don't you?

Who is it that hates me?

Who is it that's going to cat me?

Is it you?

All right.

All right, I know what I'll do.

I'm going in here.

I'm going to have a drink.

You stay out there. All three of you.

I walk inside.

The bartender is standing behind the bar.

Hello, bartender.

Hello, Sebastian.

How did you know my name?

Why, you told it to me.

I do.

When did I tell it to you?

Last night.

I wasn't here last night.

Well, this morning then.

Why?

I wasn't here.

I've never been here before.

Oh, no, Sebastian.

You got a hangover?

No, I don't remember.

I'm sure you was in here with them three men.

What three men?

You know, all the fellows were the funny names.

Funny names.

All three of them were the three letter names.

Dicks.

Sure.

Dicks Lee Gay.

The three, three.

When was this bartender?

Three o'clock this morning.

I'm trying to pull myself together.

I tried.

I tried hard.

My head is all mixed up.

I'm getting scared, bartender.

Why'd you scare it out, Sebastian?

Three.

Three.

Just three.

Oh, that reminds me.

What?

Tell the telephone just before you came in.

Said he'd be here at three o'clock.

Go answer them, then.

Who?

I didn't say.

Said he wanted to call him back.

Calling him at three, three, three, three.

Yes.

I know who he is.

You want to drink?

No.

I guess not.

No?

Just talk to me, will you?

Sure, Sebastian.

Till three o'clock.

What?

Your friends will be here, then.

Oh, I'm scared.

Why?

Somebody's after me.

That's no.

What am I going to do?

I don't know anything you can do, Sebastian.

Look, talk to me.

Talk to me.

Take my mind off it.

What do I talk about?

Anything.

Anything, except.

Anything.

Well, let's see.

Talk.

Talk, I'm scared.

Well, let's see now.

Well, you take names.

Names?

Sure.

Like yours, for instance, Sebastian.

It's a very odd name.

I think I've only seen it once before in my life.

Where?

On a gravestone somewhere.

Don't talk.

Like that.

Well, it is an odd name.

It's unusual.

Names have got a lot of meaning.

Yeah.

Mine means to be reverence, I think.

Doesn't it?

Ain't that odd now.

Ain't it?

You still scared?

Talk some more.

I'm talking.

What time is it?

A little before three.

Talk!

Well, talk about names now.

I got a funny name too for a bartender.

You have?

For a bartender.

What is it?

You are scared, ain't you?

Why are you looking at me so funny?

That's pretty near three.

A bartender, what's the list of all three?

Well, I was going to tell you a funny coincidence.

Talk.

Talk, please talk.

Well, you're so worried about this three.

Talk.

Well, you talk, talk to me.

I was going to tell you about my name.

Well, what is your name?

Is it George, Thomas, Harry or Charlie or...

Hello, Wichester?

How's the bad?

These are microwatts.

That's what's so funny.

It's dry.

Dry?

Well, it's very funny.

Well, that's extremely funny.

Well, that's...

That's funny, bartender.

A bartender named Dry.

A dry bartender.

Well, sir, that sure is funny.

Yeah, but of course, that ain't the way you spell it, see.

What?

Oh, you see, it's a German name.

Is it?

Yeah, sure.

Spelled D-R-E-I.

It means three, you know.

No more three.

No more three.

No more bartender named Dry.

What do you suppose it was?

I'm never going to hear any more threes again, am I?

Oh, oh yes, I am.

You remember?

When the judge says to be hanged by the neck until dead, dead, dead.

You have listened to Quiet Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper.

The man who spoke to you was Ernest Chappell.

And others who played in tonight's story were Les Dremain, Vincent Hayworth, Cameron Proudon,

and Kermit Murdoch.

Music for Quiet Please, I use you as composed and played by Gene Moreso.

Now, for what about next week's Quiet Please, here is our writer director, Willis Cooper.

Next week our story is about a man who couldn't escape his fate.

It's called Kill Me Again.

And so until next week at the same time, I am Quietly Yours, Ernest Chappell.

Music for Quiet Please comes to you from New York.

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