1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:23,120 The Columbia Network takes pleasure in bringing you Suspense. 2 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:29,920 Suspense, a new series of programs with one strict purpose in view, your entertainment. 3 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:35,280 Each week at this time, CBS sets aside 30 minutes to excite you, to mystify you, and 4 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:40,360 on occasion to horrify you with a catalog of the world's great thrillers. 5 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:45,000 Dramas from the stage and screen, from fiction and radio. 6 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,480 Dramas that bring you Suspense. 7 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:59,480 This, the second offering of a new series, is a unique one. 8 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:03,600 Certainly it is one of the very few pieces of Suspense literature that somehow manages 9 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:08,960 to tickle your funny bone while busily engaged in tingling your spine. 10 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:13,080 Make no mistake though, nobody's kidding. 11 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:32,840 CBS presents its adaptation of John Collier's well-known short story, Wet Saturday. 12 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:35,160 Yes it's a wet Saturday. 13 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:37,280 Never saw it rain harder. 14 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:42,880 I'm Princey, Frederick Princey, just an ordinary family man. 15 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,960 I have a son, a daughter, and a wife. 16 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:48,960 Might be out golfing now if it hadn't been for the rain. 17 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:53,120 Hi Mrs. Princey, I plan to drive over to the nurseries this afternoon for some arbiters, 18 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:54,120 the boarders you know, but... 19 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,120 Oh, the whole lot of them make me sick. 20 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,120 Yes, I'm George, sun and air. 21 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,120 I had a date to go punting. 22 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:04,120 Puntings. 23 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:09,120 Couldn't find the blasted punting as weather, so I'm home too. 24 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:10,120 I... 25 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:11,120 I'm Millicent. 26 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,120 I was going to play croquet. 27 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:24,640 That's how I happened to have a mallet. 28 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:26,600 Yes that's the Princey family. 29 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:32,040 We find them at home, Mrs. Princey, Millicent, George sprawled on a couch, Mr. Princey biting 30 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,040 on a dry pipe. 31 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,840 Their living room is dull and overstuffed. 32 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:38,880 Rain beats at the windows. 33 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:46,080 They are any middle class family at home on a wet day, except for one small item. 34 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,360 As you sit with them in the living room, you can see through the door to the sun porch 35 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:53,800 a pair of men's feet encased in black boots. 36 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,560 They look like the feet of a curate. 37 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:58,560 There's a tenseness in the room. 38 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:05,360 The air is charged with excitement, but the feet are very still. 39 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:07,880 Don't keep staring at them. 40 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:09,480 Listen to me, all of you. 41 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:11,200 Don't you see? 42 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:12,200 They hang her. 43 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:13,200 That's what they do. 44 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:14,200 They hang her. 45 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:15,200 Oh Fred, it's too awful. 46 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:16,200 Awful? 47 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:17,200 It's catastrophic. 48 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:25,320 A supposedly sweet, gentle, intelligent girl, respected, loved by the whole village, doing 49 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:26,320 a thing like this. 50 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,320 Think of the publicity, the disgrace. 51 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:35,320 You think I'm going to resign from the bench, the vestry, sell out and live in some foggy 52 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:36,320 hotel abroad? 53 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:37,320 Oh no, no. 54 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:38,320 I'll kill myself. 55 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:39,320 I will. 56 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:40,320 I will. 57 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:41,320 Don't be a fool. 58 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:45,320 Any more than you have been, the Governor means. 59 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:46,320 Be quiet. 60 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,080 It wouldn't be so bad if it were you. 61 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,960 Everybody in the village knows you're not responsible. 62 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:52,960 George. 63 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:53,960 Yes? 64 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,120 Get off that couch. 65 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:57,120 Sit up on your spine. 66 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:00,800 You might be of a little use here, if you could think. 67 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,440 Listen, Governor, this isn't my funeral. 68 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,000 Oh, shut up. 69 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:11,080 As long as I can remember, George, you've been a trial and a tribulation to me. 70 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:12,680 Oh, I can't stand it. 71 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:13,680 I can't stand it. 72 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,520 You've got to stand it, my dear. 73 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:20,280 And keep that hysterical note out of your voice. 74 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:23,280 Do you hear? 75 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:24,280 Yes. 76 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:27,600 We, uh, we are talking about the weather. 77 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:29,280 Now, George. 78 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:30,280 Yeah? 79 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:38,360 George, if he fell down the old well, say, striking his head several times, what about 80 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:39,360 it, eh? 81 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:40,960 I really don't know, Governor. 82 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:41,960 What about it? 83 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:42,960 Don't be an ass. 84 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:43,960 I'm asking you to think. 85 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:52,880 He'd have had to hit the side several times in 30 or 40 feet and at all the correct angles. 86 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:57,120 Now, now, I'm afraid not. 87 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:00,120 I'm afraid not. 88 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,760 We'll have to go over it all again, Millicent. 89 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:05,760 Oh, no, Father. 90 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:06,760 No, no. 91 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:07,760 I couldn't. 92 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:08,760 I couldn't. 93 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:13,000 Millicent, we must go over it all again. 94 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,760 Oh, Fred, you're torturing her. 95 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:18,960 Oh, face facts, Mater, with him lying there. 96 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:21,920 That's no use pretending it's a picnic. 97 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:23,920 They might hang you, Millicent. 98 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:25,920 Oh, stop that shaking. 99 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:26,920 Stop it here. 100 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:27,920 You must stop it. 101 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,920 You must keep your voice quiet. 102 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:38,000 Millicent, we are talking of the weather. 103 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,800 Now, we will proceed. 104 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:41,800 I can't. 105 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:42,800 I can't. 106 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,800 Not without boots there. 107 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:50,440 Oh, you should have thought of those boots, Millicent. 108 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:51,440 I'm not moving them. 109 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,560 Oh, sit up, George. 110 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:54,560 Stop shuffling your feet. 111 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:58,960 Now, Millicent, look at me. 112 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,520 Answer me truthfully, you hear? 113 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:02,880 Answer me. 114 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,840 You were in the croquet course. 115 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:06,840 Yes. 116 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:10,200 Who knew you were in love with this wretched curate? 117 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,200 Oh, the whole village. 118 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,320 They've been sniggering about it at the pub for three years past. 119 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,320 What a filthy mess. 120 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,120 Millicent, we continue. 121 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,120 You were on the croquet course. 122 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:28,120 You were putting the croquet set into its box. 123 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:29,120 Yes. 124 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:33,320 It was starting to rain. 125 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:37,000 I was carrying the balls and mallets into the sun porch. 126 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,800 The box was there. 127 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:44,000 You heard someone enter the garden gate and come across the yard. 128 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,000 Yes. 129 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Could you see who it was? 130 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,040 Oh, not at first. 131 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,680 I was going into the sun porch. 132 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:56,360 I threw down all the mallets at the red one and turned around. 133 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:58,360 It was Withers? 134 00:06:58,360 --> 00:06:59,360 Yes. 135 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,360 So you called him? 136 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:03,360 Yes. 137 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:04,360 Loudly? 138 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:06,280 Did you call him loudly? 139 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:07,280 Could anyone have heard? 140 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:09,240 No, Father, I'm sure not. 141 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,520 I didn't really call him. 142 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:12,920 I just spoke his name. 143 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,800 He saw me as I went to the door. 144 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,080 He just waved his hand and he came over. 145 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:23,640 How can I find out from you whether there was anywhere about whether he could have been 146 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:24,640 seen? 147 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:26,440 I'm sure not, Father. 148 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:28,000 I'm quite sure. 149 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,680 So you both went into the sun porch. 150 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:32,680 Yes. 151 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:34,680 It was raining hard then. 152 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:35,680 What did he say? 153 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:38,680 He said, hello, Millie. 154 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:43,680 And excuse his coming in the back way, but he set out to walk over to Lisbon. 155 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:44,680 Yes. 156 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:51,080 He said, passing the park, he'd seen the house, and suddenly thought of me. 157 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:55,360 And he thought he'd just look in for a moment. 158 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:58,760 He had something to tell me. 159 00:07:58,760 --> 00:07:59,760 Go on. 160 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:02,360 He said he was so happy. 161 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:04,480 He wanted me to share it. 162 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,680 He'd heard from the bishop he was to have a vicarage. 163 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,160 And it wasn't only that. 164 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:16,960 It meant he could marry, but then he began to get all confused. 165 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:21,720 And of course, I thought he meant me. 166 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:23,160 Don't tell me what you thought. 167 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,280 Tell me exactly what he said, nothing else. 168 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:30,080 Well, well, oh dear. 169 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:32,280 Oh, stop crying. 170 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:35,080 It's a luxury you can no longer afford. 171 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:39,320 Tell me what happened. 172 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,280 He said, no. 173 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:45,200 He said it wasn't me. 174 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,560 It's Ella Bregdon Davis. 175 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:50,600 And he was sorry. 176 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:51,600 And all that. 177 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,600 Then he went to go. 178 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:55,600 And then? 179 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:56,600 I went mad. 180 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:57,600 He turned his back. 181 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:04,600 I had the red mallet of the croquet fit in my hand. 182 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,480 I forgot to drop it in the box when he came. 183 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,680 Did you shout or scream? 184 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:12,240 I mean, as you hit him? 185 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:13,240 No. 186 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:14,240 I'm sure I didn't. 187 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:15,240 Did he? 188 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:16,240 Come on, speak up. 189 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:17,240 No, Father. 190 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:18,240 And then? 191 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:19,240 I threw it down. 192 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:20,240 I came straight in here. 193 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:21,240 I went to look for Mother. 194 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:22,240 Oh, God. 195 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:23,240 My poor baby. 196 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:24,240 No. 197 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:27,240 No, I don't leave the child alone, Fred. 198 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:30,240 Not such a child, Mater. 199 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,240 Milly, I had no idea you had... 200 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:34,240 Keep quiet. 201 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:35,240 I'm thinking. 202 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:42,240 You see, George, he probably told people he was going to listen. 203 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:47,240 Certainly no one knows he came here, for he didn't decide until he crossed the park. 204 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:51,240 He might have been attacked in the woods. 205 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,240 We must consider every detail. 206 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,240 A curate with his head battered in. 207 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:58,240 Don't, Father. 208 00:09:58,240 --> 00:09:59,240 Don't. 209 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:02,240 A curate, head, battered in. 210 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:06,240 Now, who would want to kill with us? 211 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:07,240 Who would kill with us? 212 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:08,240 Well, I would with pleasure. 213 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:09,240 How do you do, Milly, Princy? 214 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:10,240 Captain, Captain Smarter. 215 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:11,240 Oh, sit down, pray. 216 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:12,240 You mustn't get up for me, Mrs. Princy. 217 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:13,240 You either, Milly. 218 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:14,240 My word. 219 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:15,240 Just being neighborly on a bad day. 220 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:16,240 I wanted to ask you about those denier bulbs, Princy. 221 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:17,240 Took a short cut on account of the rain and walked right in. 222 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:18,240 Knew you wouldn't mind. 223 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:19,240 Oh, you have a good eye. 224 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:20,240 I'm not a doctor. 225 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:21,240 I'm a doctor. 226 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:22,240 I'm a doctor. 227 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:23,240 I'm a doctor. 228 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:24,240 I'm a doctor. 229 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:25,240 I'm a doctor. 230 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:26,240 I'm a doctor. 231 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:27,240 I'm a doctor. 232 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:28,240 I'm a doctor. 233 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:29,240 I'm a doctor. 234 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,240 I'm a doctor. 235 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:37,240 I'm a doctor. 236 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:39,240 My dear, we can all have our little jokes. 237 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,240 Don't pretend to be shocked. 238 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:43,240 This way, Smarter. 239 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:44,240 This chair facing the fireplace. 240 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:45,240 Sit down, mother. 241 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:46,240 Just straightening the curtains to the sun porch, dear. 242 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:47,240 It looks so gloomy out there. 243 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:48,240 I might as well shut the rain out. 244 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:49,240 Just talking about the little theoretical cure-it-killing, Smarter. 245 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:52,240 You know, I could never have imagined it. 246 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:57,240 It seems to me it's a great thing. 247 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:01,640 killing Smalley. You know, young people these days like thrillers. 248 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:07,600 Parsonicide. Justifiable parsonicide. If you heard about Ella Bragdon, Davis, I 249 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:13,320 should be most properly laughed at. Why? Why should you be laughed at, Smalley? 250 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:19,280 No, and a shot in that direction myself. She half said yes, too. 251 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:25,840 Haven't you heard? She told most people. Now it'll look as if I got turned down for a 252 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:37,000 white rat in a dog collar. Oh, too bad. Oh, fortune of war. Yes, fortune of war. Odd how it 253 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:45,440 happens, isn't it? Sit down, Smalley. Millicent, console Captain Smalley with your best light 254 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:50,280 conversation. You two mother. George and I have something to look at outside. There's this 255 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:55,800 rain, you know, very bad, very bad. Come, George. Right, old Governor. Maybe we'll need raincoats, 256 00:11:55,800 --> 00:12:02,160 what? Oh, I don't think so. Just make yourself at home, Smalley. Make yourself at home. 257 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:08,000 A cigarette, Captain Smalley? Thank you. Thank you. Nasty day to be going out. 258 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:12,880 Something about the old well. Just off the Sunforged Door, you know. This terrible 259 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:18,560 sudden weather seems to have loosened some of the stones. Oh, too bad. Dash too bad. Spoils the 260 00:12:18,560 --> 00:12:24,400 tennis and croquet, I mean, a day like this, doesn't it, Millie? Doesn't it, Millie? Oh, 261 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:29,800 yes, it does. She was practicing out on the croquet court earlier, but, oh, do pull your 262 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:34,080 chair nearer the fire, Captain. It was so damp, we thought it would be cozy to light it. Thank 263 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:43,320 you. I'm quite comfortable. I hope you don't feel too bad about Anna Davis. Can't always win. 264 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:49,440 Can't see, though, what you women see in these bloodless clerics. Oh, I always thought Mr. 265 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:56,000 Witherswaas is a very charming man. Quite agree, but why should anyone want to marry him? You 266 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:03,520 wouldn't want to marry him, would you, Millie? Not now. Very right. Are you? Oh, oh, no. 267 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:11,640 Of course not. Smalley. Yes, yes, Prince Hymn. Good Lord, Manu, to come in all of a sudden. 268 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:21,720 Yes, I did. Oh, don't mind this old double-barreled shotgun. Been working on it. Smalley, 269 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:27,840 may I have your attention for a minute? There's something on the sun porch I'd like to show you. 270 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:36,760 Why, yes, yes, of course. Smalley, George and I went out to see if we could shoot some rats which 271 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:42,640 have been driven out of the old well by the high water. Afraid they might get into the house. Now, 272 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:52,360 you must listen to me very carefully. Very carefully, or you will be shot by accident. Princey, 273 00:13:52,360 --> 00:14:01,420 what's got into you? You heard me ask as you came in who would kill Withers. You also heard 274 00:14:01,420 --> 00:14:09,920 Millicent make a comment, an unguarded comment. Well, what of it? Very little. Unless you were 275 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:18,640 to hear that Withers had met a violent end this very afternoon. And that, my dear Smalley, is what 276 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:31,280 you are going to hear. What? Withers? Yes. Who killed him? Millicent. Good Lord. Yes, it's a mess. 277 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:39,560 And of course you would have remembered and guessed. Maybe, yes, yes, I suppose I should. 278 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:46,320 Therefore you constitute a problem. Why did she kill him? Oh, it's one of those disgusting things. 279 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:53,800 Pityable too. She deluded herself that he was in love with her. Good heavens, Millie. Oh, yes, 280 00:14:53,800 --> 00:15:02,120 of course. I see. He had told her about the Davis girl. I understand. Now, I have no wishes. You 281 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:06,800 will comprehend. She should be proved either a lunatic or a murderous. I could hardly go on 282 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:13,880 living here after that. I suppose not. On the other hand, you know about it. Yes, I see that. 283 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:21,040 Makes me a problem. You're wondering if I could keep my mouth shut if I promise. I am wondering 284 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:27,360 if I could believe you. But if I promise. If things went smoothly, yes, but not if there was any sort 285 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:34,480 of suspicion, any questioning. You would be afraid of being an accessory. Why, I don't know. I do. 286 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:42,360 What are we going to do? I can't see anything else. You'd never be a fool enough to do me, 287 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:49,760 Ian. You can't get rid of two corpses. Oh, I regard it as a better risk than the other. It could be an 288 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:59,000 accident. Or you and Withers could both disappear. There are possibilities in that. Listen, you can't. 289 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:08,240 I can, but there may be a way out. There is. Smollett, you gave it to me yourself. I did what? 290 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:15,520 You said you would kill Withers. You have a motive. Look here, I was joking. Of course you saw that. 291 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:24,640 You are always joking. Listen, Smollett, I can't trust you. You must trust me. Else I will kill you 292 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:31,680 now in the next minute. I mean that. You can choose between dying and living. Go on. Now, 293 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:37,320 there's the old way just outside the Sunport store. That's where I'm going to put Withers. No one 294 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:42,240 outside knows he has come up here this afternoon. No one will ever look there for him unless you 295 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:48,720 tell them. You must give me evidence that you have murdered Withers. I murdered him? Why do you want 296 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:56,760 that? So that I shall be dead sure that you will never open your lips on the subject. I see. What 297 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:06,560 evidence? George, hit him in the face. Sure. George, don't. Keep out of this. Captain, you should be more 298 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:15,880 careful. Look what your teeth did to my knuckles. Again, George. Okay. I can't stand it. Keep quiet. 299 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:22,440 You women keep out of this. I'm sorry, Smollett, but there must be traces of a struggle between you 300 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:29,800 and Withers. Then it will not be altogether safe for you to go to the police. But can't you take my 301 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:36,720 word, man? I will when we are finished. George, get the croquet merit. Right, Governor. Take your 302 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:45,720 handkerchief to it in there on the Sunport floor. Yes. Yes, I got it, Governor. There, Captain. 303 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:54,120 There's the weapon. As I told you, Smollett, now you just grasp the end that mashed Withers' head. 304 00:17:54,120 --> 00:18:05,120 I shall shoot you if you don't. But good Lord, you can't. All right. There. That's it. Now deposit it 305 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:12,640 out by the side of the house, out of the rain, of course. No. Wait, George. First, you'd better pull 306 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:18,880 a few hairs out of his head and put them under the nails of Withers' right hand. Princey, have you 307 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:26,360 gone mad? Do you know what you're doing? With this gun? Yes. Go ahead, George. Sorry to mush your 308 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:34,240 hair up, Captain. Shut up, Smollett. There. That's all we need. Now for Withers, and we'll fix it right up. 309 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:43,640 Be right with you, Governor. Smollett, you may turn around. Withers is just there in the Sunport. 310 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:56,200 Draw back the curtain. Good Lord, Princey. Yes. Messy. But we'll get him fixed up. Now you, Smollett, 311 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:02,600 you've just got to drag him through the door and dump him in the old well. Just beyond the door, 312 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:09,520 Captain. I won't touch him. I won't. All right. Stand aside. Out of range, George. Right. Only one 313 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:14,920 place I want this bullet to go. Father. Father. Keep quiet. My aim's not too good. Wait a minute. 314 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:25,160 Wait a minute. That's better, Smollett. Much better. Go on now. In here. You'll have to take him 315 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:34,200 outside. By the shoulders ought to do it, Captain. Keep quiet, George. Go on, Smollett. Go on. You've 316 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:44,520 seen dead men before. Drag him. Drag him. I'll just hold the gun here to make sure that everything 317 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:57,640 goes all right. Oh, Mother. Come away from the din, Wendoldia. Don't look. But Captain Smollett, 318 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:02,960 your father is a very resourceful man, Millicent. I'm sure what he's doing is right. But the Captain, 319 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:10,640 I can't, I can't stand it. You mustn't question your dear father. I say, are you two still at it? 320 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:17,720 There's enough trouble around here without blubbering. I'm not blubbering, George. So you see, Smollett, 321 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:27,240 everything is perfect. They never look in our well. You see how safe it is? I guess it is. Oh, 322 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:34,080 good heavens, man. You're dripping wet. Why didn't you slip your raincoat on? Tea ready, my dear? 323 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:40,200 In just a minute, dear. I'll bring for Bridget. Exactly what you need, Smollett. Cup of tea. Best 324 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:46,040 thing in the world to ward off a cold. Sit down, won't you? Don't mind getting the chair wet. 325 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:53,320 Cigarette? Help yourself. I stick to my pipe, you know. Funny how... Everything is hot, 326 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:59,440 man. Oh, Bridget, yes. Put the tray in front of me here, on the table. That's it. I say, 327 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:05,320 Captain, you've gone and cut your lip. I just knocked it. Oh, how dreadful. Here, Bridget, 328 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:13,040 sit for Captain this cup. No, no, thank you. I rather think I'll be running along now, 329 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:18,640 if you don't mind. Why, Captain Smollett, without any tea? If you don't mind, Mrs. Princey, 330 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:25,120 if I could just have my raincoat. I'll get it for you, Captain. Oh, this is very distressing, 331 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:31,200 Smollett, very. I'll be all right presently, I'm sure. Here we are now. Let me help you. 332 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:37,320 Thank you. Thank you, young man. There. I'd better go out the front way, Smollett. The walk is dry. 333 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:42,440 Oh, let me hold the door for you, Captain. Don't worry, old fellow. Don't worry at all. 334 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:52,080 Oh, no, no, I... Good afternoon. Nothing serious, I imagine. He'll rest and he'll be as right as rain. 335 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:58,720 By the way, Millicent, you're not looking any too well. No, not well at all. I'm sure it was 336 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:03,480 that croaky court. Being outdoors in weather like this is simply foolhardy. The maid is right, 337 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:09,320 Millie. You saw what happened to Captain Smollett. Come along, dear. I shall give you a hot foot bath 338 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:14,800 and put you to bed. And a couple of days in bed and you'll be fine again. Get plenty of rest, 339 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:22,360 Millicent, and don't worry about a thing. That's the best cure. Well, I guess I'll have a little rest, 340 00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:31,680 too, Governor. It's a fine afternoon for a nap. Indeed it is, son. Well, enjoy yourself. I'll see 341 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:54,560 you later. I'll see you all later. Your number, please. Oh, would you get me the police station, 342 00:22:54,560 --> 00:23:08,840 please? Police station? Right away, sir. Police headquarters, Sergeant Yancy speaking. Oh, hello, 343 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:14,600 Sergeant. This is Princey of Abbots Road. I believe you know me. Oh, indeed I do, Mr. Princey. 344 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:21,280 Sergeant, a horrible thing has just happened. Quite extraordinary. Murder, in fact. Murder? I'm 345 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:27,240 afraid it looks rather bad for, well, for a close friend of ours, unfortunately. We saw him do it. 346 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:31,600 I think you'd better send someone over right away. Our man should be there right about now, 347 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:39,960 Mr. Princey. I beg your pardon? I say, our man should be there now. Constable Martin has his post 348 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:47,960 right below your house there. Just rang in. Seems Captain Smollett was with him. Captain Smollett? 349 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:53,760 He reported some rather queer goings-on at your place, but I certainly didn't understand it was 350 00:23:53,760 --> 00:24:02,520 murder. Just don't touch anything, Mr. Princey, and don't worry. Don't worry at all. No. No, 351 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:12,800 no, no. I won't, Sergeant. Thank you. Governor! Governor, where are you? I'm right here. Stop 352 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:21,280 shouting. We, we have some visitors, Governor. Oh, yes. Yes, yes, I can see that. Well, Constable, 353 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:28,600 good afternoon. Good afternoon, Mr. Princey. And Smollett, I see what a remarkable fellow you are, 354 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:34,840 coming back like this. Here to reenact the crime? Only the one against me, Princey. The one against 355 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:40,720 the curate. I'll leave to you people. Extraordinary sense of humor. Mr. Princey, I just had to look 356 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:46,520 at what's in your well. Not to criticize that, not pretty at all. Yes, Captain Smollett was 357 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:52,080 thorough, if nothing else. You saw him when he did it, sir, out in the back? Oh, quite. We were just 358 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:56,200 returning from a walk. Smollett evidently had been laying for the curate, hiding out in those 359 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:02,960 bushes by the road, I imagine. He was never inside this house? Never. And you say, Captain? I say 360 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:08,160 that while I was inside this house, a guest of the family, I was coerced into dragging the curate's 361 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:15,160 body outside and dumping it in the well. Well, there we are. Not entirely, Constable. I'll just 362 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:21,640 remove my raincoat, there, and demonstrate how damp I got my clothes when I went outside without it. 363 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:29,080 No, that's interesting, isn't it? Quite. He undoubtedly removed his coat at some point between 364 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:34,640 here and your post. I might as well tell you that his weapon, a red croquemallet, is out by the side 365 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:39,240 of the house. I shouldn't be at all surprised but that you'd find his fingerprints all over it. All 366 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:45,280 over the end of the mallet, Constable, the end that mashed Withers's head, and not the end I'd 367 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:51,720 have had to grasp in order to do the mashing. Governor, that's a decent try, Smollett, but it 368 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:56,680 won't work. There must be other evidences, Constable. You'll undoubtedly find them when you examine the 369 00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:02,560 body. He means my hair under Withers's nails. Well, sir, if you look carefully, I believe you'll find 370 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:08,520 a few of my precious hairs under his son's nails, too. Here, what are you trying at? Constable, 371 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:13,280 this is an utter waste of time. So far as the violence struggle between Smollett and Withers is 372 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:18,520 concerned, Smollett's face speaks for itself, quite eloquently, I believe. Oh, but no more eloquently 373 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:25,280 than your son's knuckles. As you see, Constable, a fresh abrasion. He did that on my teeth. Or did 374 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:38,240 he? What? I say, or did he? He might have done that on Withers's teeth. Oh, I see. I see what you mean. 375 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:44,360 But, but, but I didn't. Governor, he said I... Oh, keep still, you nitwit. Let me think. Let me think. 376 00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:49,600 As a matter of fact, George, the more I think of it, the more I'm convinced it was your voice I 377 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:55,880 heard. Quite a vigorous quarrel. Something about the curate juking your sister. Oh, don't be ridiculous, 378 00:26:55,880 --> 00:27:02,560 Smollett. Very well, Princey. If your son didn't do it, who did? That's what I'd like to know. How 379 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:11,560 about it, Mr. Princey? Well, that, that is a sticker, all right. George, my boy, it looks like you're 380 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:18,120 elected. Elected? What do you mean? I didn't do it. Why, I don't... Keep your mouth shut, will you? I won't. 381 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:22,200 I'm not going to take the blame for her. Millie did it. She did it with that mallet, I saw. You could 382 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:29,360 prove that? Prove it? I, I... Yes, her, her fingerprints on the mallet, the handle. Why, George, don't you 383 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:33,400 remember when you made me touch the mallet, when you picked it up with your handkerchief? No, I... 384 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:38,520 George, I'm sure you wiped that handle clean. Oh, well, I could hardly expect you to remember that, 385 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:44,040 if you, if you can't even remember killing the curate. Governor, I... I told you to keep still. 386 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:50,160 But Governor, you're not going to turn me over, you... As long as I can remember, George, you've been a 387 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:57,320 trial and a tribulation to me. Governor, I... You shouldn't have done it, son. You really shouldn't. 388 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:04,840 No, George, that was definitely wrong. I say, Princey, I think I'll have that cup of tea after all. 389 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:15,520 Nothing like it in weather like this. Wet Saturday, from the short story by John Collier. You have 390 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:20,440 just heard the second in Columbia's new series, a series designed to bring you the best in thrill 391 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:27,840 entertainment. Outstanding dramas from the field of fiction and radio, stage and screen. Dramas of 392 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:46,040 pure suspense. This Columbia feature is produced and directed by Charles Vanda, with script by 393 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:54,760 Harold Bedford and score by Bernard Herman. Be with us again next week at the same time when we 394 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:59,080 present Suspense. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.