WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:20.160 Suspense! 00:20.160 --> 00:25.760 This is the Man in Black, here to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. 00:25.760 --> 00:31.000 In Hollywood this evening, our two distinguished stars are the lovely actress Margot and the 00:31.000 --> 00:33.800 Polish young actor from Holland, Mr. Philip Dorne. 00:33.800 --> 00:40.560 A story by John Dixon Carr dealing with strange, very strange happenings aboard an ocean liner 00:40.560 --> 00:46.680 and called Cabin B13 is tonight's tale of Suspense. 00:46.680 --> 00:50.060 If you have been with us before, you will know that Suspense is compounded of mystery 00:50.060 --> 00:53.680 and suspicion and dangerous adventure. 00:53.680 --> 00:58.520 In this series our tales are calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer 00:58.520 --> 01:04.920 you a precarious situation and then withhold a solution until the last possible moment. 01:04.920 --> 01:10.120 And so with Cabin B13 and with the performances of Margot as Ann Brewster and Philip Dorne 01:10.120 --> 01:31.080 as Dr. Karl Heinrich, we again hope to keep you in Suspense. 01:31.080 --> 01:35.800 Come now in happier peacetime days to a great ocean liner on the night of her departure 01:35.800 --> 01:36.800 for Europe. 01:36.800 --> 01:42.240 There she is at the West 22nd Street Pier, the 25,000 tonne moravania of the White Planet 01:42.240 --> 01:43.240 Line. 01:43.240 --> 01:48.040 Smoke from her three funnels coils up lazily in mild October air. 01:48.040 --> 01:52.440 You can see the decks white and shiny like shoeboxes and the string of lights along them 01:52.440 --> 01:55.640 and the band standing by on a deck to play her out. 01:55.640 --> 02:00.000 You can hear the murmur of an excited crowd and the rattle of the steam winches as cargo 02:00.000 --> 02:01.480 is lowered into the hole. 02:01.480 --> 02:05.360 You can see the bustle of activity and the second officer standing at the head of the 02:05.360 --> 02:10.240 gangplank as two rather late passengers hurry through the custom shed towards that gangplank. 02:10.240 --> 02:12.080 It's all right, Billy. 02:12.080 --> 02:13.080 We are not too late. 02:13.080 --> 02:14.960 No, and I thought we'd be in time. 02:14.960 --> 02:17.120 A honeymoon in Europe. 02:17.120 --> 02:20.360 Three whole months with nothing to worry about. 02:20.360 --> 02:21.640 That's right, dear. 02:21.640 --> 02:25.000 And you've been my wife for, let's see, practically five hours now. 02:25.000 --> 02:30.120 I believe the correct phrase is, is, ah, it was so sudden, Mr. Brewster. 02:30.120 --> 02:34.840 So sudden that we had to travel on our own passports instead of a husband and wife one. 02:34.840 --> 02:37.080 I hope they don't think you're not an honest woman. 02:37.080 --> 02:40.560 I'm going to act like a complete wad of just a devil. 02:40.560 --> 02:42.800 Oh, what about our tickets, Ricky? 02:42.800 --> 02:45.360 Do we give them to that officer standing at the top of the gangplank? 02:45.360 --> 02:47.560 No, honey, you keep your ticket. 02:47.560 --> 02:50.360 The cabin steward will come around and collect it after we're underway. 02:50.360 --> 02:52.920 And the money, Ricky? 02:52.920 --> 02:55.920 It's a lot of money, ain't it? 02:55.920 --> 02:58.520 Ten thousand dollars in cash. 02:58.520 --> 03:01.280 Maybe I better turn it in at the purse's office for safekeeping. 03:01.280 --> 03:03.720 Yes, maybe you had. 03:03.720 --> 03:05.000 Wait a minute, Ricky. 03:05.000 --> 03:06.000 What is it then? 03:06.000 --> 03:07.000 Wait. 03:07.000 --> 03:10.640 Do you mind if we stand here for a second before we go up the gangplank? 03:10.640 --> 03:11.640 What's the matter? 03:11.640 --> 03:13.640 You're not ill, are you? 03:13.640 --> 03:17.240 No, but getting over brain fever isn't any joke. 03:17.240 --> 03:18.960 Oh, I know, dear. 03:18.960 --> 03:24.840 You see, Ricky, I ought to be eager and excited like all those people up there, but suddenly 03:24.840 --> 03:26.360 you get fancies. 03:26.360 --> 03:28.800 Queer, sick fancies. 03:28.800 --> 03:34.600 Suddenly, right now, all I can think of is the night and the wind and all the black water 03:34.600 --> 03:35.600 in the dark. 03:35.600 --> 03:39.080 And that's exactly the kind of morbid fancy I'm trying to cure you of. 03:39.080 --> 03:41.160 I know, Ricky. 03:41.160 --> 03:44.920 I'll be good, but I was just thinking of a story. 03:44.920 --> 03:45.920 What story? 03:45.920 --> 03:46.920 Oh, never mind. 03:46.920 --> 03:47.920 It doesn't matter. 03:47.920 --> 03:48.920 Which way do we go? 03:48.920 --> 03:52.680 Up the gangplank, through that door there, and then down on the elevator to B deck. 03:52.680 --> 03:59.000 And no more horrors, do you understand? 03:59.000 --> 04:03.880 Here we are, Ann. 04:03.880 --> 04:05.880 B deck and cabin number... 04:05.880 --> 04:07.680 Good Lord. 04:07.680 --> 04:12.200 B 13. 04:12.200 --> 04:13.200 B 13. 04:13.200 --> 04:15.480 You're not superstitious, are you? 04:15.480 --> 04:17.880 No, dear, not about things like that. 04:17.880 --> 04:19.240 Open the door. 04:19.240 --> 04:21.920 Here we are. 04:21.920 --> 04:22.920 Lights on and... 04:22.920 --> 04:25.160 Oh, Ricky, darling. 04:25.160 --> 04:26.160 It's a beautiful cabin. 04:26.160 --> 04:27.720 The best I could get. 04:27.720 --> 04:29.760 They've got a luggage in anyway. 04:29.760 --> 04:34.280 And over there, madam, you'll find a basket of fruit and some books from your obedient 04:34.280 --> 04:35.280 servant. 04:35.280 --> 04:36.720 Oh, you are nice to me. 04:36.720 --> 04:38.820 And I'm feeling so much better, Ricky. 04:38.820 --> 04:40.480 I will be all right, darling. 04:40.480 --> 04:42.240 Of course you will. 04:42.240 --> 04:45.320 But you won't find any detective novels among those books. 04:45.320 --> 04:47.040 Please, please, Ricky. 04:47.040 --> 04:50.760 Detective novels may be all right for presidents and college professors, but they're straight 04:50.760 --> 04:52.400 poison to you. 04:52.400 --> 04:54.920 You'll read love stories and like it. 04:54.920 --> 04:59.920 You know, Ricky, I keep thinking and thinking about that story I mentioned. 04:59.920 --> 05:01.200 Oh, what story, dear? 05:01.200 --> 05:03.040 It's an old one. 05:03.040 --> 05:06.000 You probably know it, but it was new to me. 05:06.000 --> 05:08.960 A woman and her daughter arrive in Paris and go to a hotel. 05:08.960 --> 05:11.160 Oh, you mean the old Paris Exposition story? 05:11.160 --> 05:12.720 Yes, that's it. 05:12.720 --> 05:14.600 The daughter goes out. 05:14.600 --> 05:17.200 When she returns, her mother has disappeared. 05:17.200 --> 05:20.440 And even the hotel room isn't the same. 05:20.440 --> 05:23.840 The proprietor of the hotel swears the girl came there alone and that there never was 05:23.840 --> 05:24.840 a mother. 05:24.840 --> 05:28.120 The whole room is different when she goes back to look at it. 05:28.120 --> 05:31.360 The girl goes to the police and they won't believe her and she's nearly crazy. 05:31.360 --> 05:37.040 Of course, it turns out that the mother has caught bubonic plague and died and they're 05:37.040 --> 05:41.040 hushing it up so that the visitors won't keep away from the city and ruin the whole exposition. 05:41.040 --> 05:44.240 Anne, you've got to stop this kind of talk. 05:44.240 --> 05:45.240 I know. 05:45.240 --> 05:53.280 But imagine being in a situation like that with all those queer eyes staring at you, 05:53.280 --> 05:57.520 wondering if you'd lost your reason, wondering if your brain had cracked and the whole world 05:57.520 --> 05:58.520 might dissolve and... 05:58.520 --> 05:59.520 Listen. 05:59.520 --> 06:02.520 That's the last call, Anne. 06:02.520 --> 06:07.600 We'll be on the way any minute now. 06:07.600 --> 06:12.520 You know, Ricky, I would like to see the skyline go past and the Statue of Liberty and the 06:12.520 --> 06:13.520 rest of it. 06:13.520 --> 06:14.960 Well, then why not go up and see it? 06:14.960 --> 06:18.400 I've got to deposit this money in the Purser's Office on Seadam. 06:18.400 --> 06:21.640 But I don't like you to leave me. 06:21.640 --> 06:24.000 Oh, now look here, dear. 06:24.000 --> 06:26.200 You don't think I'm going to disappear, do you? 06:26.200 --> 06:28.800 I suppose I don't really. 06:28.800 --> 06:34.000 When I get these ideas and I can't help it, Ricky, I wish you'd wallop me. 06:34.000 --> 06:38.680 I'm not going to wallop you, Anne, but you've got to stop being afraid. 06:38.680 --> 06:43.200 You certainly won't disappear in a crowded ship with any number of people around you. 06:43.200 --> 06:46.880 As for me, I defy Houdini himself to make me vanish. 06:46.880 --> 06:47.880 Don't talk like that. 06:47.880 --> 06:50.960 I'm not going to vanish, and neither is this cabin, dear. 06:50.960 --> 06:52.320 Now, run along. 06:52.320 --> 06:54.640 I'll join you on deck as soon as I can. 06:54.640 --> 06:55.640 All right, Ricky. 06:55.640 --> 06:56.640 I'll be good. 06:56.640 --> 06:57.640 In with your gangplank. 06:57.640 --> 06:58.640 In with your gangplank. 06:58.640 --> 06:59.640 Gangplank, please, sir. 06:59.640 --> 07:00.640 Close the rails. 07:00.640 --> 07:01.640 Stand by. 07:01.640 --> 07:21.560 Eager people, excited people, happy people, all crowding up to the rail to wave goodbye. 07:21.560 --> 07:22.760 Nothing to worry about. 07:22.760 --> 07:24.960 Nothing on their minds except... 07:24.960 --> 07:25.960 Except what? 07:25.960 --> 07:26.960 Oh. 07:26.960 --> 07:27.960 Except seasickness, madam? 07:27.960 --> 07:28.960 Oh. 07:28.960 --> 07:31.160 Why, back your pardon. 07:31.160 --> 07:32.640 I hadn't meant to startle you. 07:32.640 --> 07:33.640 Believe me. 07:33.640 --> 07:34.640 Please don't mention it. 07:34.640 --> 07:35.640 How silly of me. 07:35.640 --> 07:36.640 It was my fault. 07:36.640 --> 07:38.040 I haven't been very well. 07:38.040 --> 07:40.920 I noticed it, madam, if you'll forgive me. 07:40.920 --> 07:42.920 That was why I spoke to you. 07:42.920 --> 07:46.360 As you see by my uniform, I'm the ship's doctor. 07:46.360 --> 07:48.040 This is a British ship, isn't it? 07:48.040 --> 07:49.040 But you don't sound British. 07:49.040 --> 07:51.040 No, I'm an Austrian, madam. 07:51.040 --> 07:53.960 Dr. Paul Henry, at your service. 07:53.960 --> 07:57.120 I'm not very popular in my own country today. 07:57.120 --> 07:59.600 Days of colored shirts and vacant minds. 07:59.600 --> 08:02.760 I'm Mrs. Brewster, doctor, and Brewster. 08:02.760 --> 08:03.920 When does the ship go? 08:03.920 --> 08:05.560 In about a second, Mrs. Brewster. 08:05.560 --> 08:12.320 You will hear the whistle, then the banter will strike up, all lungs in, and then... 08:12.320 --> 08:13.320 We're moving, aren't we? 08:13.320 --> 08:14.320 Yes. 08:14.320 --> 08:15.320 Don't you feel the vibration of the engines? 08:15.320 --> 08:16.320 Goodbye, Tommy. 08:16.320 --> 08:17.320 Take care of yourself while I'm gone. 08:17.320 --> 08:18.320 Come on, dear, I'll see you at Christmas. 08:18.320 --> 08:33.320 Oh, the kid in the car is in the living room, table floor. 08:33.320 --> 08:40.320 If you go out with Eddie Blom's tummy, I'll kill you when I get back. 08:40.320 --> 08:41.320 Goodbye, man. 08:41.320 --> 08:44.320 Yes, dear, of course I'll behave myself in Paris. 08:44.320 --> 08:58.760 See, what time is the bar open aboard this time, then? 08:58.760 --> 09:02.040 I imagine this is not your first crossing, madam. 09:02.040 --> 09:04.160 I'm afraid it is, Dr. Henry. 09:04.160 --> 09:07.320 My husband's crossed many times, he tells me, but not on this ship. 09:07.320 --> 09:09.520 Well, then I hope you're a good sailor. 09:09.520 --> 09:10.520 Why, Dr. Henry? 09:10.520 --> 09:14.800 Well, because we'll run into some very dirty weather once we're out at sea. 09:14.800 --> 09:17.320 October is a very bad month for traveling. 09:17.320 --> 09:22.000 Well, if I do get seasick, doctor, I'll rush straight to you, and I'll expect to be cured. 09:22.000 --> 09:24.520 Let me tell you a secret, madam. 09:24.520 --> 09:28.120 There are two common ailments for which medical science has no cure. 09:28.120 --> 09:31.240 One is ordinary seasickness, and the other is hangover. 09:31.240 --> 09:34.120 Tomorrow morning, I shall be dealing with both. 09:34.120 --> 09:35.120 And enjoying it? 09:35.120 --> 09:37.120 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, sympathizing with it. 09:37.120 --> 09:38.120 That's all I can do. 09:38.120 --> 09:40.440 How do you like tomorrow of India? 09:40.440 --> 09:43.480 Oh, it's a magnificent ship from what I've seen of it. 09:43.480 --> 09:48.760 And you know, they've given us a very nice cabin down on B deck, B 13. 09:48.760 --> 09:49.760 What's the matter? 09:49.760 --> 09:52.400 Why are you looking at me like that? 09:52.400 --> 09:53.960 I beg your pardon. 09:53.960 --> 09:55.520 Did you say B 13? 09:55.520 --> 09:56.520 Yes. 09:56.520 --> 09:57.520 Why not? 09:57.520 --> 09:59.400 You're quite sure of that, madam? 09:59.400 --> 10:02.080 Well, yes, of course I'm sure of it. 10:02.080 --> 10:03.640 I saw the number on the door. 10:03.640 --> 10:04.640 Why not? 10:04.640 --> 10:05.640 Well, because... 10:05.640 --> 10:09.920 Go on, Dr. Henry. 10:09.920 --> 10:14.600 Of course there's no such cabin aboard a ship. 10:14.600 --> 10:16.520 I'm not joking, Mrs. Brewster. 10:16.520 --> 10:18.480 You see, some people are superstitious. 10:18.480 --> 10:21.960 Many ships, like this one, omit number 13 on each deck. 10:21.960 --> 10:23.640 You must have been mistaken. 10:23.640 --> 10:25.600 What are you trying to tell me? 10:25.600 --> 10:28.080 Do you think I saw something that wasn't there? 10:28.080 --> 10:30.360 No, no, Mrs. Brewster, not at all. 10:30.360 --> 10:31.720 Then come along with me. 10:31.720 --> 10:32.720 I'll show you. 10:32.720 --> 10:34.520 I'll prove to you that there is a number 13. 10:34.520 --> 10:35.520 Will you come along? 10:35.520 --> 10:37.360 Yes, Mrs. Brewster. 10:37.360 --> 10:41.000 I think perhaps I had better escort you. 10:41.000 --> 10:43.800 Stuartus, Stuartus! 10:43.800 --> 10:45.800 Yes, miss. 10:45.800 --> 10:47.800 Yes, ma'am. 10:47.800 --> 10:50.240 Come in straight away. 10:50.240 --> 10:52.360 Tell me, Stuartus, this is B deck, isn't it? 10:52.360 --> 10:53.360 B deck, ma'am. 10:53.360 --> 10:54.360 Oh, yes, ma'am. 10:54.360 --> 10:55.360 No doubt about that. 10:55.360 --> 10:59.600 Dr. Henry and I have been all over this part of the ship looking for cabin number 13, but 10:59.600 --> 11:00.600 we don't... 11:00.600 --> 11:05.960 I've been trying to convince this lady stewardess that there's no such cabin, cabin number 13 11:05.960 --> 11:06.960 on this ship. 11:06.960 --> 11:07.960 It's a sure-to-heaven, isn't it, ma'am? 11:07.960 --> 11:08.960 And never has been. 11:08.960 --> 11:13.720 I served aboard the Moravania a matter of eight years, and I ought to know. 11:13.720 --> 11:15.080 But I tell you, I saw it. 11:15.080 --> 11:16.600 I was in there. 11:16.600 --> 11:19.680 It was a big cabin with a private bathroom attached. 11:19.680 --> 11:23.360 The walls were paneled in light oak, and the furniture was rosewood and yellow satin, and 11:23.360 --> 11:24.920 the portholes were like real windows. 11:24.920 --> 11:26.640 No, that's not much good, ma'am. 11:26.640 --> 11:28.320 No, I'm afraid not. 11:28.320 --> 11:30.560 Most of the cabins hereabouts look like that. 11:30.560 --> 11:33.760 May I ask you, what name was the cabin booked in? 11:33.760 --> 11:34.760 Brewster, naturally. 11:34.760 --> 11:37.160 Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Brewster. 11:37.160 --> 11:39.440 Here, let's have a look on my list. 11:39.440 --> 11:40.440 No. 11:40.440 --> 11:43.280 No, there's no Brewster here, ma'am. 11:43.280 --> 11:44.840 I tell you, I was in there. 11:44.840 --> 11:46.000 They even delivered the luggage. 11:46.000 --> 11:47.000 I saw it. 11:47.000 --> 11:51.560 Excuse me, ma'am, but I had a look-see in all the cabins I'm in charge of just to see 11:51.560 --> 11:56.640 if the passengers wanted anything, and I don't remember any luggage with a Brewster label 11:56.640 --> 11:57.640 on it. 11:57.640 --> 11:58.640 Wait a minute. 11:58.640 --> 12:01.760 There may be a partial explanation of this. 12:01.760 --> 12:04.000 You see, that's better, Mrs. Brewster. 12:04.000 --> 12:05.600 I was hoping you might find one. 12:05.600 --> 12:07.640 Ricky, that's my husband. 12:07.640 --> 12:11.400 Ricky and I have only been married a very short time, and when my maid printed the baggage 12:11.400 --> 12:15.520 label, she must have made them out in my maiden name. 12:15.520 --> 12:17.280 I never noticed at the time. 12:17.280 --> 12:19.800 Oh, what name might that be, ma'am? 12:19.800 --> 12:20.800 Thornton. 12:20.800 --> 12:21.800 Anne Marie Thornton. 12:21.800 --> 12:22.800 Oh, darn, Miss. 12:22.800 --> 12:25.040 Now, why couldn't you have said that before? 12:25.040 --> 12:27.080 Oh, I remember it well. 12:27.080 --> 12:29.680 Two silk cases and a little trunk. 12:29.680 --> 12:31.960 They're in B-16 now. 12:31.960 --> 12:32.960 Where's B-16? 12:32.960 --> 12:34.320 Right behind you, Miss. 12:34.320 --> 12:36.600 You're standing practically in front of the door. 12:36.600 --> 12:39.200 Oh, thank goodness for you. 12:39.200 --> 12:43.000 Oh, yes, but what about my husband's luggage? 12:43.000 --> 12:45.880 There's no gentleman's luggage in that cabin, Miss. 12:45.880 --> 12:50.040 Your husband's or any other gentleman's, if you know what I mean. 12:50.040 --> 12:51.040 I won't stand for this. 12:51.040 --> 12:52.040 Where's Ricky? 12:52.040 --> 12:53.040 What have you done with Ricky? 12:53.040 --> 12:57.400 Please, Mrs. Brewster, there's one easy way to settle this. 12:57.400 --> 12:58.400 Settle it? 12:58.400 --> 12:59.400 How? 12:59.400 --> 13:00.400 Just look down the corridor. 13:00.400 --> 13:05.080 You notice the man coming towards us, the man with the two gold stripes around his sleeve? 13:05.080 --> 13:06.080 Well? 13:06.080 --> 13:07.920 That's Mr. Marshall, our second officer. 13:07.920 --> 13:10.200 Did you ever see him before? 13:10.200 --> 13:14.000 Yes, yes, of course I have. 13:14.000 --> 13:17.640 He was standing at the top of the gang plank when Rick and I got aboard. 13:17.640 --> 13:18.640 Exactly. 13:18.640 --> 13:21.120 So he might be able to tell us something. 13:21.120 --> 13:22.120 Mr. Marshall? 13:22.120 --> 13:23.120 Mr. Marshall? 13:23.120 --> 13:24.120 Yes, Doctor, what's up? 13:24.120 --> 13:26.120 Would you mind coming here for a moment? 13:26.120 --> 13:27.960 Not at all, old boy. 13:27.960 --> 13:31.000 I'm glad to oblige a chap who may have to cut me up at any moment. 13:31.000 --> 13:33.000 What may I do for you? 13:33.000 --> 13:38.320 Take a good look at this young lady and tell me, have you seen her before? 13:38.320 --> 13:39.320 Seen her before? 13:39.320 --> 13:46.280 My dear chap, if I had overlooked, young lady, pardon me, I know, a passenger as charming 13:46.280 --> 13:50.920 as this lady is, I would be less of a gentleman than I fancy myself. 13:50.920 --> 13:52.960 You saw her coming aboard tonight? 13:52.960 --> 13:54.960 Oh yes, certainly. 13:54.960 --> 13:58.000 And of course you saw the gentleman who was with her. 13:58.000 --> 14:00.040 The gentleman who was with her? 14:00.040 --> 14:02.040 Yes, yes, yes. 14:02.040 --> 14:06.160 Oh, but there was nobody with her, old boy. 14:06.160 --> 14:09.320 You're quite certain of that, Mr. Marshall? 14:09.320 --> 14:12.200 My dear Doctor, she was the last of them to come aboard. 14:12.200 --> 14:16.240 I take my Bible oath there was no other passenger with her, or ahead of her or behind her if 14:16.240 --> 14:17.240 it comes to that. 14:17.240 --> 14:18.240 You're lying, you're lying to me. 14:18.240 --> 14:21.520 Please, please, Mrs. Rooster, lower your voice. 14:21.520 --> 14:23.920 I know what it is. 14:23.920 --> 14:27.240 It's the old Paris trick, like in the story. 14:27.240 --> 14:28.520 But you won't get away with it, do you hear? 14:28.520 --> 14:29.520 I'll look here, madame. 14:29.520 --> 14:32.520 I'll go to the press or I'll go to the captain. 14:32.520 --> 14:43.320 Dear Father in Heaven, won't anybody believe me? 14:43.320 --> 14:49.260 Later that night, in the captain's room just above the bridge, there is a conference of 14:49.260 --> 14:54.720 ship's officers, outside, stung by spray, clinging to the bulkhead rail in the dark, 14:54.720 --> 14:58.720 a frightened girl waits until the door of the cabin's room opens. 14:58.720 --> 15:03.320 Will you bring the young lady in, Doctor Heising? 15:03.320 --> 15:04.320 Close the door. 15:04.320 --> 15:06.320 Yes, sir, here we are. 15:06.320 --> 15:08.320 This is Captain Wainwright. 15:08.320 --> 15:13.800 Now, just tell your story straightforwardly and please don't excite yourself. 15:13.800 --> 15:17.920 Well, maybe we can get some decision into this matter. 15:17.920 --> 15:20.120 Would you sit down here beside my desk, Miss Thornton? 15:20.120 --> 15:22.240 My name is Brewster, Captain. 15:22.240 --> 15:23.240 Mrs. Anne Brewster. 15:23.240 --> 15:25.880 Ah, whatever you say, Mrs. Brewster. 15:25.880 --> 15:26.880 Thank you very much, Captain. 15:26.880 --> 15:29.840 I might tell you, ma'am, I've got a lot on my mind already. 15:29.840 --> 15:32.400 The first officer comes aboard with an attack of flu. 15:32.400 --> 15:37.080 I'm facing an equinoctial gale, short-handed, and now this has to happen on top of it. 15:37.080 --> 15:38.160 I'm terribly sorry. 15:38.160 --> 15:42.040 I can't help that, Captain, but I want to know what they've done with Ricky. 15:42.040 --> 15:44.440 Just one moment, please, while I get this straight. 15:44.440 --> 15:49.680 At this time, I understand you yourself have personally interviewed practically every single 15:49.680 --> 15:51.320 passenger aboard this ship. 15:51.320 --> 15:52.320 Is that true? 15:52.320 --> 15:53.320 Yes, it's true. 15:53.320 --> 15:57.240 But your alleged husband is not here. 15:57.240 --> 15:58.240 Is that true? 15:58.240 --> 16:00.240 Yes, that's true, but I... 16:00.240 --> 16:05.920 In the meantime, the person has sent a squad of men to search this ship. 16:05.920 --> 16:07.160 They've searched every inch of it. 16:07.160 --> 16:08.960 You can take my word for that. 16:08.960 --> 16:10.480 There's nobody hidden. 16:10.480 --> 16:11.480 Your husband's not here. 16:11.480 --> 16:14.320 According to Mr. Marshall, who's standing over there... 16:14.320 --> 16:15.320 I can't see him. 16:15.320 --> 16:19.520 According to Mr. Marshall, he never was here. 16:19.520 --> 16:20.520 Hang it all, Miss Thornton. 16:20.520 --> 16:22.200 You needn't glare at me like that. 16:22.200 --> 16:23.200 We couldn't see the chap. 16:23.200 --> 16:24.200 He wasn't there, nor could we. 16:24.200 --> 16:25.200 Be quiet, Mr. Marshall. 16:25.200 --> 16:26.200 Yes, I'm sorry. 16:26.200 --> 16:30.600 No, I'm not unreasonable, Mrs. Brewster. 16:30.600 --> 16:31.920 I think you'll admit that. 16:31.920 --> 16:33.360 But what can I do? 16:33.360 --> 16:35.560 What can I say? 16:35.560 --> 16:39.800 Can you offer any proof even that this husband of yours ever existed? 16:39.800 --> 16:40.800 Proof? 16:40.800 --> 16:42.480 Yes, of course I can. 16:42.480 --> 16:44.280 Excuse me for interrupting, Book. 16:44.280 --> 16:46.480 Would you mind, Captain, if I asked a question or two? 16:46.480 --> 16:47.480 No, Doctor, go ahead. 16:47.480 --> 16:50.280 I'll tell you I'm going deaf myself. 16:50.280 --> 16:55.920 If you were married, Mrs. Brewster, you must be carrying a joint husband and wife passport. 16:55.920 --> 16:56.920 Where is that? 16:56.920 --> 17:00.360 Well, there wasn't time to get one. 17:00.360 --> 17:02.480 We each carried our own passport. 17:02.480 --> 17:04.080 Oh, I see. 17:04.080 --> 17:08.040 But still, there must be someone back in America who can confirm what you say if you got in 17:08.040 --> 17:09.960 touch via radio telephone. 17:09.960 --> 17:10.960 Your parents, for instance... 17:10.960 --> 17:11.960 I haven't got any parents. 17:11.960 --> 17:12.960 They're dead. 17:12.960 --> 17:14.880 What about relatives, then, or a guardian? 17:14.880 --> 17:16.880 My guardian is a trust company. 17:16.880 --> 17:18.800 The administrators don't even know I'm married. 17:18.800 --> 17:22.880 But somebody must have performed the ceremony of marriage, the past and the justice of peace. 17:22.880 --> 17:25.120 Yes, of course, of course, but... 17:25.120 --> 17:26.840 Oh, I... 17:26.840 --> 17:29.200 I can't remember the name of the town. 17:29.200 --> 17:31.520 You don't remember the name of the town? 17:31.520 --> 17:32.880 Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman, Mrs. Brewster. 17:32.880 --> 17:35.920 The ship is going to pitch again. 17:35.920 --> 17:40.520 How's the glass looking, Mr. Marshall? 17:40.520 --> 17:42.520 Oh, barometers rising, sir. 17:42.520 --> 17:43.920 This weather won't hold long. 17:43.920 --> 17:45.640 We shall be in the fog before morning, though. 17:45.640 --> 17:48.120 We are in the fog now, if you ask me. 17:48.120 --> 17:49.120 This lady says she... 17:49.120 --> 17:52.600 I'm terribly sorry, but I'm trying to think of it. 17:52.600 --> 17:57.040 It was a little town in upstate New York where they can marry you at a moment's notice. 17:57.040 --> 17:58.200 Ricky kept the certificate. 17:58.200 --> 17:59.600 I... 17:59.600 --> 18:01.200 I was confused. 18:01.200 --> 18:02.200 I haven't been well. 18:02.200 --> 18:03.200 No, you haven't. 18:03.200 --> 18:10.080 You see, Ricky had been away, and he came back, and I was in love with him, and he sort 18:10.080 --> 18:12.760 of swept me off my feet and... 18:12.760 --> 18:15.320 Oh, what's the use? 18:15.320 --> 18:17.040 Not much use, apparently. 18:17.040 --> 18:21.160 If you'll take my advice, ma'am, you'll go below to your cabin and get some sleep. 18:21.160 --> 18:24.040 I'll send the doctor down to make sure he has sedative. 18:24.040 --> 18:26.120 You think I'm crazy, don't you? 18:26.120 --> 18:27.120 I... 18:27.120 --> 18:29.600 I think you're a little overwrought, ma'am. 18:29.600 --> 18:32.360 What I can't understand is why. 18:32.360 --> 18:33.360 Why? 18:33.360 --> 18:35.240 Why should you want to do this? 18:35.240 --> 18:37.960 It can't be the bubonic plague this time. 18:37.960 --> 18:39.760 Bubonic plague, ma'am? 18:39.760 --> 18:42.000 Who said anything about the bubonic plague? 18:42.000 --> 18:43.000 Never mind. 18:43.000 --> 18:46.160 But I'll show you. 18:46.160 --> 18:50.440 You're all against me, except maybe the doctor. 18:50.440 --> 18:51.440 But I'll show you. 18:51.440 --> 18:53.120 I'll prove it to you. 18:53.120 --> 18:55.800 I am going downstairs, and I don't want anybody to follow me. 18:55.800 --> 18:56.800 Good night. 18:56.800 --> 18:59.800 Good night, all of you. 18:59.800 --> 19:02.080 Well, I'm glad that's over. 19:02.080 --> 19:03.080 Look here, Mr. Marshall. 19:03.080 --> 19:04.080 Huh? 19:04.080 --> 19:06.080 You think it's quite safe to trust her out there alone? 19:06.080 --> 19:07.680 Well, I don't know, sir. 19:07.680 --> 19:09.680 She's mad as a hatter, if you ask me. 19:09.680 --> 19:13.840 You think she might do something foolish? 19:13.840 --> 19:17.040 I think she might chuck herself overboard if we're not careful. 19:17.040 --> 19:19.080 What's your opinion, doctor? 19:19.080 --> 19:23.240 I can give you my opinion, gentlemen, in a very few words. 19:23.240 --> 19:24.920 That girl is as sane as you are. 19:24.920 --> 19:25.920 What's that? 19:25.920 --> 19:28.400 Wait and hear what I have to say. 19:28.400 --> 19:32.760 I've shared your own belief at first, but I've been talking to her all evening. 19:32.760 --> 19:37.320 I've heard her whole story, and there's not a psychopathic trait in her nature. 19:37.320 --> 19:39.240 She firmly believes in this husband. 19:39.240 --> 19:40.240 That's right, doctor. 19:40.240 --> 19:44.120 A lot of people firmly believe they're Napoleon, but they get tossed into loony bins, that's 19:44.120 --> 19:45.120 the same. 19:45.120 --> 19:46.640 This matter is not a joke, Mr. Marshall. 19:46.640 --> 19:48.640 I tell you, this man exists. 19:48.640 --> 19:50.640 Or did exist. 19:50.640 --> 19:51.640 What do you mean, doctor? 19:51.640 --> 19:52.640 Or supposed he has been murdered. 19:52.640 --> 19:53.640 Did exist. 19:53.640 --> 19:55.640 Perhaps he has been murdered and thrown overboard. 19:55.640 --> 19:56.640 Married? 19:56.640 --> 19:57.920 Thrown overboard? 19:57.920 --> 20:02.880 If you remember, Richard Brewster was carrying a very large sum of money in cash, his wife's 20:02.880 --> 20:06.640 wedding gifts, practically all her inheritance. 20:06.640 --> 20:10.800 He meant to go to the purse's office, but he never got there. 20:10.800 --> 20:12.880 That money might have been a great temptation. 20:12.880 --> 20:13.880 To whom? 20:13.880 --> 20:18.400 To a stewardess, perhaps, or even to a ship's officer. 20:18.400 --> 20:20.160 Just exactly what are you getting at? 20:20.160 --> 20:23.040 Well, numbers on doors can be changed easily enough. 20:23.040 --> 20:25.520 Just print a small card and put it on the metal slot on the door. 20:25.520 --> 20:28.060 I still want to know what you're driving at. 20:28.060 --> 20:31.600 If you use your intelligence, gentlemen, I think you will understand how a man can be 20:31.600 --> 20:40.680 made to vanish into thin air, and why Mr. Marshall saw never another passenger. 20:40.680 --> 20:41.680 You still don't see it? 20:41.680 --> 20:42.680 No, I do not. 20:42.680 --> 20:54.120 Well, then listen, and I'll explain exactly how it's been created. 20:54.120 --> 20:56.920 Four o'clock in the morning. 20:56.920 --> 21:01.840 Four o'clock, the hour of suicides and bad dreams. 21:01.840 --> 21:04.720 The gala's subsided, the sea is calm. 21:04.720 --> 21:09.160 The SS Moravania creeps blindly at barely eight knots through a thick and strangling 21:09.160 --> 21:10.160 fog. 21:10.160 --> 21:12.720 The whole ship is dark and sealed up in sleep. 21:12.720 --> 21:18.400 There's no sound in all that mournful dimness, except when the foghorn cries out a warning 21:18.400 --> 21:19.900 overhead. 21:19.900 --> 21:25.920 Even cabin B16 is dark, and Brewster, still fully dressed, lies restlessly across one 21:25.920 --> 21:29.920 of the berths, her head almost touching the inter-cabin telephone. 21:29.920 --> 21:32.920 What was... 21:32.920 --> 21:37.920 I thought I heard... 21:37.920 --> 21:38.920 Telephone. 21:38.920 --> 21:39.920 Yes? 21:39.920 --> 21:40.920 Hello? 21:40.920 --> 21:41.920 It's me, Ann. 21:41.920 --> 21:42.920 Take it easy now. 21:42.920 --> 21:43.920 Ricky! 21:43.920 --> 21:44.920 Ricky, where are you? 21:44.920 --> 21:45.920 Quiet! 21:45.920 --> 21:46.920 Keep your voice down. 21:46.920 --> 21:47.920 Where are you, Ricky? 21:47.920 --> 21:48.920 What happened to you? 21:48.920 --> 21:49.920 Are you hurt? 21:49.920 --> 21:50.920 No, I'm not hurt, but he nearly got me. 21:50.920 --> 21:51.920 Who nearly got you? 21:51.920 --> 21:52.920 Listen, I'm not hurt. 21:52.920 --> 21:53.920 I'm not hurt. 21:53.920 --> 21:55.920 Who nearly got you? 21:55.920 --> 21:59.920 Listen, dear, I can't explain over the phone, and I don't dare go down there. 21:59.920 --> 22:01.920 Can you meet me up on deck? 22:01.920 --> 22:02.920 Yes, of course. 22:02.920 --> 22:03.920 Where? 22:03.920 --> 22:04.920 Do you know the boat deck? 22:04.920 --> 22:05.920 Boat deck? 22:05.920 --> 22:06.920 Which one is that? 22:06.920 --> 22:08.920 The top deck, where all the lifeboats are slung. 22:08.920 --> 22:09.920 Oh, yes, I know it. 22:09.920 --> 22:10.920 Well, go to the starboard side. 22:10.920 --> 22:11.920 Yes. 22:11.920 --> 22:12.920 That's the right-hand side, facing forward. 22:12.920 --> 22:13.920 Find the fourth lifeboat from the aft companion wing. 22:13.920 --> 22:14.920 Yes. 22:14.920 --> 22:19.920 There's a thick fog, and nobody else will see us. 22:19.920 --> 22:20.920 Ricky. 22:20.920 --> 22:21.920 What is it? 22:21.920 --> 22:22.920 Ricky! 22:22.920 --> 22:23.920 He's gone. 22:23.920 --> 22:24.920 He's gone. 22:24.920 --> 22:29.920 Excuse me, miss, but I thought I heard somebody talking in here. 22:29.920 --> 22:34.920 Stuartice, what are you doing up at this time of the night? 22:34.920 --> 22:37.920 If I might ask, miss, what are you doing up and rest? 22:37.920 --> 22:39.920 Oh, you ought to get some sleep, miss. 22:39.920 --> 22:40.920 You're really off. 22:40.920 --> 22:45.920 It might interest you to know, Stuartice, that I've just been talking to my husband. 22:45.920 --> 22:46.920 Now, look here, miss. 22:46.920 --> 22:48.920 Don't start that all over again. 22:48.920 --> 22:50.920 Please don't start that all over again. 22:50.920 --> 22:52.920 You all pretended to think I was mad, didn't you? 22:52.920 --> 22:54.920 And you nearly drove me mad. 22:54.920 --> 22:58.920 Ricky's beaten the whole crowd of you, and I'm going out on deck to meet him now. 22:58.920 --> 22:59.920 Out on deck, miss. 22:59.920 --> 23:00.920 That's what I said. 23:00.920 --> 23:01.920 Where's my coat? 23:01.920 --> 23:02.920 Don't go out there, miss. 23:02.920 --> 23:04.920 Not in the state of mind you're in. 23:04.920 --> 23:06.920 And the fogs are thick. 23:06.920 --> 23:09.920 You can't hardly see your hand in front of your face. 23:09.920 --> 23:10.920 Stand away from the door, please. 23:10.920 --> 23:14.920 Suppose, miss, I didn't want to let you go out there. 23:14.920 --> 23:16.920 I don't think that would matter much. 23:16.920 --> 23:19.920 You've probably heard that mad people have ten times ordinary strength, 23:19.920 --> 23:20.920 and I'm stronger than you anyway. 23:20.920 --> 23:22.920 Miss, I'm a beggin' ya. 23:22.920 --> 23:24.920 Stand away from that door. 23:41.920 --> 23:45.920 One, two, third. 23:45.920 --> 23:47.920 Am I? Is that you? 23:47.920 --> 23:48.920 Yes. Ricky. 23:48.920 --> 23:50.920 Ricky, darling, where are you? 23:50.920 --> 23:52.920 Here. Duck your head under the lifeboat. 23:52.920 --> 23:53.920 Here, take my hand. 23:53.920 --> 23:56.920 But isn't it horribly dangerous out there on the edge? 23:56.920 --> 23:58.920 There's no railing along the side of the ship. 23:58.920 --> 24:00.920 Don't worry, Anne. I won't let you fall. 24:00.920 --> 24:01.920 Look out! 24:01.920 --> 24:03.920 Oh, we're overboard here. 24:03.920 --> 24:07.920 We're well aft near the propellers, the suction would carry you into the propeller blades and... 24:07.920 --> 24:09.920 Now, listen. 24:09.920 --> 24:12.920 I can't hear anything except the foghorn. 24:12.920 --> 24:14.920 Yeah, but I can. 24:14.920 --> 24:16.920 There's somebody walking along the deck. 24:16.920 --> 24:18.920 And I can see a flashlight moving in the fog. 24:18.920 --> 24:20.920 You're quite right, my friend. 24:20.920 --> 24:23.920 You can see a flashlight moving in the fog. 24:23.920 --> 24:25.920 Dr. Heinrich, what are you doing here? 24:25.920 --> 24:29.920 At the moment, young lady, I'm covering both of you with a revolver. 24:29.920 --> 24:30.920 Please don't move. 24:30.920 --> 24:34.920 So, you were in the conspiracy, Dr. Heinrich. 24:34.920 --> 24:36.920 May I ask you what conspiracy? 24:36.920 --> 24:39.920 The whole ship's conspiracy to say Richard Brewster didn't exist. 24:39.920 --> 24:42.920 My dear young lady, you can set your mind at rest. 24:42.920 --> 24:45.920 There never was any ship's conspiracy against you. 24:45.920 --> 24:47.920 The people you spoke to were perfectly honest. 24:47.920 --> 24:49.920 Including Mr. Marshall, I suppose. 24:49.920 --> 24:51.920 Yes, including Mr. Marshall. 24:51.920 --> 24:52.920 Ben, what is this all about? 24:52.920 --> 24:53.920 Stand back there. 24:53.920 --> 24:57.920 I suppose he was telling the truth when he said nobody came up the gangplank before or after me. 24:57.920 --> 24:59.920 I beg your pardon. That was not what he said. 24:59.920 --> 25:02.920 He said no peasanture came up the gangplank at this time. 25:02.920 --> 25:04.920 Well, what's the difference? 25:04.920 --> 25:07.920 A great crime is arranged for tonight, young lady. 25:07.920 --> 25:09.920 No less a crime than murder. 25:09.920 --> 25:11.920 Murder? Who's going to be murdered? 25:11.920 --> 25:12.920 You are. 25:12.920 --> 25:13.920 What? 25:13.920 --> 25:15.920 That, I repeat, is the scheme. 25:15.920 --> 25:18.920 But there is no conspiracy and only one criminal. 25:18.920 --> 25:23.920 Oh. And who is the criminal? 25:23.920 --> 25:26.920 The criminal is the man standing besides you. 25:26.920 --> 25:28.920 Your so-called husband. 25:32.920 --> 25:33.920 Ricky! 25:33.920 --> 25:35.920 Oh, you don't know what you're saying. 25:35.920 --> 25:36.920 I think I do. 25:36.920 --> 25:41.920 Marshall, of course, did see someone walk up the gangplank, loitering behind you. 25:41.920 --> 25:45.920 But he never dreamt of associating this person in any way with you. 25:45.920 --> 25:49.920 He saw a ship's officer returning from shorely in civilian clothes. 25:49.920 --> 25:50.920 A ship's officer? 25:50.920 --> 25:51.920 Yes. 25:51.920 --> 25:55.920 That man you called your husband, his name isn't Richard Brewster. 25:55.920 --> 25:59.920 His real name is Blaney, and he's the first officer of the Moravania. 25:59.920 --> 26:00.920 Are you trying to tell me that my... 26:00.920 --> 26:02.920 The Captain can identify him. 26:02.920 --> 26:06.920 He's actually British, though he can fake an American accent very well. 26:06.920 --> 26:10.920 He has already got a wife in England, and he is planning to join her with the $10,000 he got from you. 26:10.920 --> 26:12.920 I don't believe it. I don't. 26:12.920 --> 26:14.920 Ricky, why don't you say something? 26:14.920 --> 26:16.920 Oh, he planned it very cleverly, I must admit. 26:16.920 --> 26:20.920 He never let you know he was a ship's officer, did he? 26:20.920 --> 26:22.920 He's been away for some time, naturally. 26:22.920 --> 26:24.920 So he persuaded you to marry him in a hurry. 26:24.920 --> 26:25.920 Ricky, Ricky, is this true? 26:25.920 --> 26:26.920 He has the money, you see. 26:26.920 --> 26:33.920 All he did was hang a dummy number on the cabin door, remove it later, put on his uniform, and walk away with his own luggage. 26:33.920 --> 26:37.920 But Captain Wainwright told us that the first officer had come aboard tonight with... 26:37.920 --> 26:39.920 With a bad attack of flu, yes. 26:39.920 --> 26:43.920 Our friend couldn't be seen in public until he after he disposed of you. 26:43.920 --> 26:47.920 The best thing was to convince everybody you were insane, as he did. 26:47.920 --> 26:49.920 Then, when you went overboard tonight... 26:49.920 --> 26:55.920 They would all believe it was suicide. 26:55.920 --> 26:57.920 Exactly. 26:57.920 --> 27:01.920 But I began to suspect this Brewster because you quoted him as telling such an obvious lie. 27:01.920 --> 27:08.920 He said he had never traveled in the Moravania, yet he could direct you all over the ship, and even knew what a person's office was. 27:08.920 --> 27:13.920 So he went to his cabin, found it empty, searched, and found your $10,000. 27:13.920 --> 27:14.920 Look out, Dr. Henry! 27:14.920 --> 27:16.920 Put it down, you fool! Put it down! 27:16.920 --> 27:22.920 He's over for him! You shot him! You shot him! 27:22.920 --> 27:24.920 Your shots might be enough to have touched him. 27:24.920 --> 27:26.920 Never touched him? 27:26.920 --> 27:32.920 No. The weight of the iron carried him over backwards when he lifted it. 27:32.920 --> 27:36.920 It was the weight he was going to have used to sink your body. 27:36.920 --> 27:40.920 The propellers! The ship's propellers! 27:40.920 --> 27:42.920 Yes, they suck you under. 27:42.920 --> 27:48.920 Doctor, I can't stand it. 27:48.920 --> 28:10.920 It won't be easy, my dear. It won't be easy, I know, but believe me, this way is better. 28:10.920 --> 28:18.920 And so closes Cabin B-13, starring Margot and Philip Dawn, tonight's tale of suspense. 28:18.920 --> 28:25.920 With our two stars tonight were Dennis Hoy as Captain Wainwright, and William Johnstone as Ricky Brewster. 28:25.920 --> 28:32.920 This is the man in black who conveys to you Columbia's invitation to spend this half hour in suspense with us again next week, same time, 28:32.920 --> 28:37.920 when our star will be one of the screen year's most sensational newcomers, Mr. Gene Kelly. 28:37.920 --> 28:41.920 Mr. Kelly will be supported by Hans Conrad and William Johnstone. 28:41.920 --> 28:57.920 The producer and director of suspense is William Spear, who has led Blusken and Lucian Morrowick, conductor and composer, and John Dixon Carr, the author, collaborated on tonight's Suspense. 28:57.920 --> 29:02.920 Suspense fans, please note that these programs will shortly move to different days of the week. 29:02.920 --> 29:08.920 Suspense will come to listeners in Eastern and Central time zones on Thursdays beginning December the 2nd, 29:08.920 --> 29:13.920 and to Mountain and Pacific time zone listeners on Monday beginning December the 6th. 29:13.920 --> 29:17.920 Remember Thursday beginning December the 2nd in Eastern and Central time zone, 29:17.920 --> 29:27.920 and Mondays beginning December the 6th in the Pacific and Mountain time zones for Suspense. 29:27.920 --> 29:32.920 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.