1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,540 Roma wines presents Suspense. 2 00:00:17,540 --> 00:00:22,420 Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 3 00:00:22,420 --> 00:00:23,420 Salud. 4 00:00:23,420 --> 00:00:25,500 Your health, senor. 5 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:27,540 Roma wines toast the world. 6 00:00:27,540 --> 00:00:33,480 The wine for your table is Roma wine, made in California for enjoyment throughout the 7 00:00:33,480 --> 00:00:34,480 world. 8 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:41,760 This is the man in black here for the Roma wine company of Fresno, California, to introduce 9 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:45,040 this weekly half hour of Suspense. 10 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:50,920 Tonight from Hollywood, Roma wines bring you the paramount star currently being seen in 11 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,240 Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Mr. Eddie Bracken. 12 00:00:54,240 --> 00:01:00,400 Mr. Bracken appears tonight not as the exponent of comedy, as which he is so deservedly noted, 13 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:05,880 but as a boy over whose head hung dark clouds of suspicion and who was involved in a particularly 14 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:07,920 heartless crime. 15 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:12,480 And so with The Visitor and with the performance of Eddie Bracken as a young man who called 16 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:30,880 himself Bud Owen, we again hope to keep you in Suspense. 17 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:33,360 It was around two o'clock on a Thursday afternoon. 18 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:37,280 I was writing my usual groove, counting them in the Dallas coffee pot, about 22 out of 19 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:38,280 Baltimore. 20 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:42,880 Not a bad job for a green guy, 18 bucks a week in my meals, but I was aiming to be a 21 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,040 short order cook when I really got the hang of things. 22 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,720 Of course, I'd only been in the diner a couple of months. 23 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:52,400 Well, as I say, it was the usual afternoon, not especially busy, but busy enough. 24 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,040 No kidding, Mike, where's that Westerner? 25 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:55,960 Here you are, what'll you have, mister? 26 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:57,320 Ham on Ryan a cup of coffee. 27 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:58,320 Coming right up. 28 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,320 Ham on Ryan, draw one. 29 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,360 Look, uh, Chet, I'd like to talk to you. 30 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:04,360 Yeah, what about? 31 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:05,360 Will you get a minute? 32 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:06,360 I guess so. 33 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:07,840 Hey, yeah, I'll take the counter, will you? 34 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:08,840 I'm gonna have some coffee. 35 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:12,160 So what's on your mind, mister? 36 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:13,800 I'm looking for someone. 37 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:14,800 Yeah? 38 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,360 Your name wouldn't be Bud Owen, would it? 39 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,240 They call me Bill Duncan around here. 40 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:20,840 That's not what I asked. 41 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:21,840 So? 42 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:23,600 I'm looking for a boy named Bud Owen. 43 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:25,080 Well, what about him? 44 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,480 Disappeared from his home about three years ago, a boy from my town. 45 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,400 He'd be about your age now, about 18? 46 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:32,400 17. 47 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:33,400 That's it. 48 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,880 Well, his folks have been worried sick about him. 49 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:38,640 Someone else gave him up for dead. 50 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:40,640 Then I heard you were working here. 51 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:41,640 Bud? 52 00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:42,640 Yeah? 53 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:43,640 Who told you? 54 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:44,640 No one told me. 55 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:46,400 I got a note anonymous. 56 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:47,400 You didn't write it, did you? 57 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,240 No, I didn't write it. 58 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,400 You know, I think I'd have recognized you anyway. 59 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,040 You're a lot taller, of course, and you look older. 60 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:56,920 Yeah, anyone would, wouldn't they? 61 00:02:56,920 --> 00:02:57,920 Same ears, though. 62 00:02:57,920 --> 00:02:59,920 I call them wings. 63 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:01,520 That's it, good one. 64 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:03,080 Know who I am, of course. 65 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:04,080 Mac Burl. 66 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:05,080 Used to be chief of police. 67 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,520 Oh, pleased to meet you again, Mr. Burl. 68 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,520 Well, well, Bud Owens. 69 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:13,440 A lot of know-it-alls are sure going to be surprised. 70 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:14,440 Surprised? 71 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:15,440 At what? 72 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:16,440 Why, to see you. 73 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,840 Edgerton is certain to a man that you're feeding fishes off White's pier. 74 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,720 And when they see you, boy, I can't wait. 75 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,800 Look, Mr. Burl, just what is your proposition? 76 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:32,360 Why, Bud, I want you to come home again with me. 77 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:33,360 Oh? 78 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,640 Of course, things have changed some in three years, but not too much. 79 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:42,880 If you take it easy, if you have a friend to help you over the rough spots, you'll feel 80 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:44,640 right back at home in no time. 81 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:45,640 I see. 82 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:49,320 This way, you're depriving yourself of everything a boy could want. 83 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:52,320 Good home, lovely parents. 84 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,400 Yeah, wealthy parents. 85 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,120 You make it sound kind of nice at that, Mr. Burl. 86 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:04,160 And Bud, did you know that your father has offered a $10,000 reward for anyone who finds 87 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:05,160 you? 88 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:06,160 No, no, I didn't know that. 89 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,240 Don't you think you ought to come home, Bud? 90 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:10,240 Maybe I should. 91 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:12,560 Then think of your folks. 92 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,560 Think how your poor mother suffered. 93 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:16,320 Think how happy you'd make him. 94 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:19,880 Well, Mr. Burl, if you really think it'll be all right... 95 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:21,240 Why, sure it will. 96 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:25,160 It may be a little tough at first, all the excitement, people staring at you, but that 97 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:26,160 won't last long. 98 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:28,040 You've got to expect some excitement. 99 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,680 Oh, I suppose it was an event, having a hometown boy drowned. 100 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:33,760 Drowned boy? 101 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:47,120 They thought you were murdered. 102 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:52,640 And so began the series of events which were to bring a boy called Bud Owen back to Edgerton 103 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:57,760 to take up a new life with the family which had believed him dead for three years. 104 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:01,920 Tonight for Suspense, Roma Wines present Eddie Bracken, whom you have heard in the prologue 105 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,760 to The Visitor by Carl Randall and Leon Zucksmith. 106 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:15,600 Tonight's tale of suspense. 107 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,160 In this brief intermission in the play, let's imagine ourselves for a moment in a flower 108 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:24,360 garlanded Bermuda, seated on the terrace of the exclusive Coral Beach and Tennis Club. 109 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:28,640 At the next table, a party of Bermudians and Americans are taking turns, each paying compliments 110 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,400 to the delights of the other's native land. 111 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:34,920 An American has just praised the famed flowers of Bermuda. 112 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:36,760 Then a Bermudian tops him with this. 113 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:42,320 Among great American delights, he says, one of my favorites is right here on our table. 114 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,280 It is this splendid wine we are all enjoying. 115 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:49,620 Bermuda imports it from the justly renowned wine districts of California. 116 00:05:49,620 --> 00:05:53,080 It is your internationally esteemed Roma wine. 117 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:58,280 Yes, and Americans themselves have certainly not overlooked the great and enjoyable qualities 118 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:00,840 of these fine Roma wines. 119 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:06,160 Proof is, Roma wines are America's largest selling wines. 120 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:11,520 Such outstanding popularity must mean here are wines that are more taste-delighting, 121 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:15,360 more satisfying in their richness and fine wine quality. 122 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:20,440 Yet with all that as your reward for specifying Roma wines, you will be amazed and delighted 123 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:25,600 to hear your dealer say, Roma wines cost only pennies a glass. 124 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:30,600 That's because here in America, you pay no high import duty or long void shipping charges 125 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,040 for these fine Roma California wines. 126 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,800 Don't fail to enjoy Roma wines. 127 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:44,960 R-O-M-A, Roma, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 128 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:49,760 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage our star, Eddie Bracken, 129 00:06:49,760 --> 00:07:07,960 as Bud Owen in The Visitor, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 130 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:12,240 After I talked to Mr. Burrell for an hour or so, the whole thing sounded pretty darn good. 131 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:17,360 I quit my job at Al's Coffee Pot the next afternoon and met Mr. Burrell at the station. 132 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,080 We took the five o'clock train to Reggerton. 133 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,800 On the way, Mr. Burrell gave me the lowdown on what had been going on in the town for 134 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:31,920 three years, how the town thought I was murdered and how my mother and David Cunningham, my 135 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:35,720 stepfather, just wouldn't give up hope that I was still alive. 136 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,440 And he told me how my mother hadn't changed anything in my room. 137 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:40,200 She was so sure I'd come back. 138 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:44,000 Although she bought new stuff for the rest of the house, new rugs and a couch, things 139 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:48,000 like that, Mr. Burrell described it so plain I could almost see it. 140 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,040 Well, by the time we got to Reggerton, I was feeling pretty sad for my mother. 141 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:57,120 And when I stood on the dark front porch with Mr. Burrell, it was a peach of a warm summer 142 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:58,120 night. 143 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:04,200 I thought if I could make her happy, even if it was tough on me, it was worth, well, 144 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,640 it was worth a try. 145 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:12,960 Brace yourself, youngster. 146 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:13,960 This is it. 147 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:14,960 Yeah, I'm OK, Mr. Burrell. 148 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:15,960 Is that you, Burrell? 149 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:16,960 Yeah. 150 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:17,960 And here's Bud. 151 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:18,960 Bud. 152 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:19,960 Hello, Father. 153 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:20,960 Come in. 154 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:21,960 Come in, Bud. 155 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:22,960 Here, let me have your suitcase. 156 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:23,960 Here's your mother, Bud. 157 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:24,960 Bud. 158 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:25,960 Hello, Mother. 159 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:26,960 Hello, Bud. 160 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,960 Well, this time it's really Bud, Judith. 161 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:30,960 He's come back to us. 162 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:31,960 Oh, Bud. 163 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:32,960 Bud. 164 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:33,960 It's all right, Judith. 165 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:34,960 Oh, my baby. 166 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:35,960 You're so tall I can hardly kiss you. 167 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:36,960 Well, now, come, Judith. 168 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:37,960 Let's go into the living room. 169 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:38,960 Come along, Burrell. 170 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:44,960 Oh, I always knew I'd be silly when you came back. 171 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:49,960 Here, let me push your hair down. 172 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:50,960 Oh, I... 173 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:52,960 Now you look more like my Bud. 174 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:54,960 Gosh, I wouldn't have recognized this room. 175 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:55,960 Isn't that couch new? 176 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:56,960 Mm-hmm. 177 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:57,960 And the rugs and drapes. 178 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,960 Oh, I don't know how we'll ever be able to thank you, Burrell. 179 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:01,960 Oh, I see. 180 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,960 And Judith's happy as a reward, you know. 181 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:05,960 Oh, yes. 182 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:06,960 That reminds me. 183 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:10,960 I'll drop into my office tomorrow, Burrell, and I'll take care of that other more tangible 184 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:11,960 reward. 185 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:12,960 Uh, Mother, I, uh... 186 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:14,960 I don't know how to begin. 187 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:15,960 I mean... 188 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:16,960 I mean to tell you how sorry... 189 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:18,960 Oh, don't tell me anything, darling. 190 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:20,960 Nothing matters except that you're back. 191 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:21,960 That's the spirit, Judith. 192 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:23,960 Oh, you're... you're right-hand, Bud. 193 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:24,960 It's all bandaged. 194 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:25,960 Oh, that's nothing. 195 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:27,960 I burned it while working in the diner. 196 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:28,960 It's nothing, Mother. 197 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:30,960 Well, folks, it's been a long day for an old man. 198 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:31,960 I guess I'll run along. 199 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,960 Right away, Mr. Burrell, why you... you just got here. 200 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:36,960 You'll be seeing plenty of me, Bud. 201 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,960 And right now, though, you should want to be getting acquainted with your folks again. 202 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:41,960 I'll see you tomorrow, Dave. 203 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:42,960 Good night. 204 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:43,960 Good night. 205 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,960 Well, have you noticed, Judith, how deep Bud's voice is now? 206 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:48,960 Yes. 207 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:50,960 It was just a little pipe when he left. 208 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:52,960 But it was beginning to break, wasn't it, Bud? 209 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:53,960 Gosh, I guess so. 210 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:54,960 It must have sounded pretty awful. 211 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,960 And he's shaved, David. 212 00:09:57,960 --> 00:09:58,960 Every day, Snoo-Ka-Doo. 213 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:00,960 Well, gosh, not quite. 214 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:03,960 Really, David, I don't think that's so funny. 215 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:04,960 What the... oh. 216 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:06,960 Oh, that sounds like Ellen. 217 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:07,960 Isn't that nice? 218 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:08,960 Let her in, David. 219 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:09,960 Ellen Woods? 220 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:11,960 Why, who else, Bud? 221 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:13,960 Does she live next door? 222 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:17,960 Why, of course, Bud, the Woods have always lived there. 223 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:20,960 Ellen, dear, we have such a surprise. 224 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:22,960 It ain't so simply fabulous. 225 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:24,960 Let me kiss you, you lot. 226 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:25,960 Gosh, take it easy. 227 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:28,960 Well, Bud, you're gigantic, irregular beanpole. 228 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:31,960 Oh, Bud, I can't wait for Joe to see you. 229 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:32,960 Joe? 230 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:34,960 I called him as soon as I heard he's coming over here. 231 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:36,960 It's all right, Mrs. Cunningham. 232 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:37,960 Oh, of course, Ellen. 233 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:38,960 I'd forgotten. 234 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:40,960 It'll mean so much to Joe. 235 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:41,960 You know about Joe, Bud. 236 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:43,960 Oh, yes, Mr. Burrow told me. 237 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:45,960 I didn't know before. 238 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,960 Yes, this town's going to have a lot to make up to that young man. 239 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:50,960 My folks wouldn't let me see Joe, Bud. 240 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:51,960 Yeah? 241 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:54,960 Well, naturally, they thought after all, 242 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:57,960 Joe was the last person who saw you, and then he... 243 00:10:57,960 --> 00:10:59,960 well, he admitted you'd quarreled. 244 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:02,960 But your mother and I never had a moment's doubt, Bud. 245 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:03,960 I'm thankful for that. 246 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:05,960 Oh, that's Joe now. 247 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:07,960 Joe, it's true. Bud's here. 248 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,960 Ellen phoned. I ran all the way. She said... 249 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:12,960 Hugh. 250 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:14,960 Yeah, Joe, it's... it's me. 251 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,960 Yeah. I guess it is. 252 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:21,960 Well, pal, I, uh, I hear I owe you an apology or something. 253 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:23,960 Skip it, pal. 254 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:26,960 Joe, we know how hard it's been for you. 255 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:28,960 Only now it's over. 256 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:30,960 Well, it didn't matter, Mrs. Cunningham. 257 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:32,960 I've learned to put up with a lot. 258 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:34,960 Judith, dear, let's go upstairs. 259 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:36,960 Let's give the young folks a chance to be by themselves. 260 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:38,960 Well, all right, David. 261 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:40,960 But don't stay up too long, Bud. 262 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:42,960 You still need lots of sleep. 263 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:43,960 I won't, Mother. 264 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:45,960 And don't forget to turn off the lights. 265 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:46,960 Good night, children. 266 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:48,960 Good night, Mr. Cunningham. 267 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,960 Well, what'll we do? How to rogatue the fat? 268 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:52,960 Suit yourself. 269 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:54,960 Joe, don't talk that way to Bud. 270 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:56,960 He might remember he's my friend. 271 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:58,960 He certainly was yours. 272 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:00,960 Yeah. Yeah, I guess he was. 273 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:02,960 Look, Joe, I can see how you saw it in me, 274 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:03,960 but don't take it out on Ellen. 275 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:05,960 Carney, don't stop messing between Ellen and me. 276 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:06,960 Joe, please. 277 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,960 Okay. Do I have to make a speech? 278 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:11,960 So you're home now, Bud. 279 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:13,960 I'm the last one to kick, but when you toss it all off 280 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:16,960 by saying you owe me an apology or something, 281 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:18,960 maybe it's not easy to remember we were friends. 282 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:20,960 I didn't know what to say. 283 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:22,960 I know I tried to remember we were friends, 284 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:24,960 and the whole town was sure I killed you. 285 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:26,960 I tried to remember it when the draft board 286 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:29,960 listed me as undesirable because they thought I was guilty. 287 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:31,960 I even tried to remember we were friends when, 288 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:32,960 for three years, people crossed the street 289 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:33,960 so they wouldn't have to speak to me. 290 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:35,960 People got up and walked out of the room when I came in, 291 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:36,960 and they... 292 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:38,960 Gosh, Joe, I... 293 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:41,960 I didn't realize that. I am sorry, Joe. I must... 294 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:43,960 Um... 295 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:44,960 Now, listen, Joe. 296 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,960 You should be the first one to walk around the town with Bud 297 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:48,960 right tomorrow morning. 298 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:52,960 And if you'd both like it, why, I'll go with you. 299 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:54,960 Well, if it's all right with Bud. 300 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:56,960 Oh, is it? Boy, I'm gonna need company. 301 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:57,960 Then it's a date. 302 00:12:57,960 --> 00:12:59,960 Okay, I... 303 00:12:59,960 --> 00:13:00,960 No kidding, Bud. 304 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:03,960 I'm glad you're home, fella. No heart feelings? 305 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:05,960 Oh, gosh, no, Joe. 306 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:06,960 So long, Bud. 307 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:08,960 Bye, Bud. So long. 308 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:09,960 Bud? 309 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:11,960 Yes, um, uh, Mother? 310 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:13,960 Are you coming up to bed now, dear? 311 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,960 Uh, why, yeah, I might just as well. 312 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,960 You know, Bud, I've been thinking the funniest thing... 313 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:22,960 What? What's that, Mother? 314 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:26,960 Do you realize you've never even asked about Trixie? 315 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:27,960 Trixie? 316 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:29,960 Uh, that's right, I didn't. 317 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:31,960 After all, she was your dog. 318 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:32,960 Oh. 319 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,960 And you know what they say about a boy and his dog. 320 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:38,960 Poor thing, when you didn't come back, she just wandered off. 321 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:40,960 Gee, that's tough, all right. 322 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:42,960 And you didn't even ask about her. 323 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:45,960 But I guess you can't be expected to remember everything. 324 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:47,960 No, I... 325 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,960 I guess I can't remember everything. 326 00:13:59,960 --> 00:14:01,960 My mother kissed me good night. 327 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,960 I went upstairs to my room and it was just like Mr. Burrow told me it would be. 328 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,960 Everything seemed to have gone all right so far. 329 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:12,960 I undressed and turned out the lights, but before I got into bed, I... 330 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:17,960 I locked the door just in case. 331 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:26,960 Gosh, I guess I'm late for breakfast. 332 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,960 That's all right, darling. We know you needed to sleep. 333 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:31,960 Sit right in your old place, Bud. 334 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:33,960 Yeah, sure. 335 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:37,960 Well, your mother and I have been mooning over old pictures of you, son. 336 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:44,960 But except for the ears and something around the eyes, you've changed so that I can hardly recognize you. 337 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,960 Look, here's the last picture before you went away. 338 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:50,960 Why, it's almost frightening the way you've grown. 339 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:53,960 Judith, dear, you wouldn't want the boy to be a midget, would you? 340 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:57,960 Sure, he's taller, but look at the hair there and the way he stands. 341 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:00,960 I sure was a goon. Boy, you should have been glad to get rid of me. 342 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:02,960 And look, Bud, what else I found. 343 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:05,960 All your school compositions from the first grade on. 344 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:07,960 Here's one you wrote on Alexander the Great. 345 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,960 Ouch, Mother, don't be callous with those things. 346 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:11,960 I'll die of blushin'. 347 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:13,960 Why, Bud, I think this was very good for you. 348 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:14,960 Orange. 349 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:16,960 You were barely 14 when you wrote it. 350 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:18,960 See, it's marked B, so it can't be so terrible. 351 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,960 Your least little scribble is a great thing to your mother. 352 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:24,960 Well, I'd better get off to the office. 353 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:26,960 Drop in to see me if you have time, Bud. 354 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:28,960 Why, sure, Father, I'll do that. 355 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:30,960 Bye, Judith, honey. I'll be home for dinner. 356 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:32,960 Goodbye, David. 357 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,960 Now, how about some hot coffee, Bud? 358 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:36,960 Yes, thanks. 359 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:38,960 There, Snoopy. 360 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,960 Bud, there's something important I want to discuss with you. 361 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:42,960 It's about my will. 362 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:44,960 Your... your will? 363 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:48,960 Well, you know how your father, well, David, was about my money, Bud. 364 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:52,960 He never wanted to touch it or even to have me put him in my will. 365 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:56,960 He's so proud about things like that, and I do have so much more than he ever will. 366 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:58,960 Sure, I... I remember. 367 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:01,960 How much money is it anyway? 368 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,960 Well, you know, Bud, there's about $150,000 your grandfather left. 369 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:05,960 Yeah. 370 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:09,960 Then there are those four houses on Elm Street that Aunt Carolyn left and the income from them. 371 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,960 I haven't used any of it, so it amounts to quite a lot by now. 372 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:14,960 Gosh, yes, it must at that. 373 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:19,960 Well, after you left, even though David didn't want me to, 374 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,960 I changed the will, leaving everything to him. 375 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:24,960 Why, sure, that sounds fine to me. 376 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,960 But now that you're back, I think the best thing would be to just turn it all over to you now. 377 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:30,960 Set up a trust fund. 378 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:32,960 You could use the income when you start to college, 379 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,960 and later maybe you'll want to set yourself up in some kind of business. 380 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:36,960 But... 381 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:38,960 And I know it will please David. 382 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:43,960 But Mother, gee whiz, it's swell of you, but don't you think you should wait? 383 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:45,960 Wait for what, darling? 384 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:47,960 Well, until you know me better. 385 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:53,960 I mean, gosh, I wouldn't know what to do with all that money, and I might mess things up. 386 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:57,960 Silly, the bank takes care of everything. It always has for me. 387 00:16:57,960 --> 00:16:59,960 Now, all you have to do is sign these papers here. 388 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:03,960 Sign them? But I can't, Mother, you see my hand, the bandage. 389 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:08,960 Oh, isn't that a shame? Yes, I forgot that you couldn't write. 390 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:13,960 Well, it'll be all right in a couple of days, so I can take the bandage off then. 391 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:19,960 Oh, somebody's whistling for you, Bud. My, that sounds like old times. 392 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,960 It's Ellen and Joe. They're going to take me around and show me the town. 393 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:25,960 Well, I guess I have to face the music. 394 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:30,960 Oh, you know you love it. You're going to be a regular hero. 395 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:34,960 Yeah, but I don't feel much like a hero now. 396 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:41,960 BUD, I THOUGHT I WOULD WAVE! 397 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:46,960 Now you're in for it, Bud. Oh, Bud, you're really real and you've grown but divine. 398 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:48,960 Hey, hey, you're choking me. 399 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,960 Oh, I've just been telling everybody you're back. It's too sensational. 400 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,960 It's like having a new boy in town, and do we need some? 401 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:59,960 Gosh, I shouldn't think you'd have any trouble. You're cuter than ever. 402 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:04,960 Oh, listen to him. He's got a line. Gee, he sends me. Is that something? 403 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:07,960 The best thing you ever called her before was Buzzard, egg. 404 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:11,960 Well, gosh, I called her something beside that once in a while. 405 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:13,960 Well, you did call her Mary Louise. 406 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:24,960 Well, of course I called her that. Gee, it's, uh, it's swell to see you, Mary Louise. 407 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:29,960 Well, well, Bud Owen, you bad boy. Are you going to recognize me or aren't you? 408 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:32,960 Sure, gee, it's good to see you. How are you anyway? 409 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,960 Now, you're not too grown up to kiss old Mrs. Callahan the way you always did. 410 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:38,960 Oh, I'll say I'm not Mrs. Callahan. 411 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:43,960 Goodbye. I heated enough bottles for you and washed enough of your diapers, too, 412 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:45,960 so don't let me catch you putting on airs. 413 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:46,960 No, ma'am, I won't. 414 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:47,960 Goodbye. 415 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:48,960 Goodbye. 416 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:50,960 What's the matter? Didn't you recognize her? 417 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:52,960 Mrs. Callahan? Oh, of course I did. 418 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:56,960 Why didn't you call her what you always used to? Couldn't you see she was sore? 419 00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:58,960 Well, I, uh, I did. 420 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:01,960 Bud, you used to call her Aunt Celie. 421 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:06,960 Well, well, well, I couldn't believe it, but I dare refute the evidence of my senses. 422 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:08,960 It's the Owen boy, Bud Owen. 423 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:10,960 Well, I'm glad to see you, sir. 424 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:12,960 Yeah, I just saw your mother. I heard you were back. 425 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,960 She told me she was bringing you down to my office in a day or two. 426 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:16,960 Ah, yeah, yeah, she told me. 427 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:18,960 Ah, your mother's one in a million, young man. 428 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:20,960 She thinks only of your welfare. 429 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:22,960 I hope you've learned to appreciate her. 430 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:24,960 Yes, sir, I have. 431 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:26,960 Well, I just want to check on the news. 432 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:28,960 Well, I'll see you later. 433 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,960 Yes, sir, I have. Well, I just want to check on the news. 434 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:35,960 And no nonsense, my boy. You do as your mother says. 435 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:38,960 What did he mean, no nonsense? 436 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:39,960 Don't you know? 437 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:40,960 Well, I guess so. 438 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,960 Mother told me she, uh, she was going to take me down to the lawyer's office this morning. 439 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:44,960 Oh, Bud. 440 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,960 I've been waiting for you to outsmart yourself, and this is it. 441 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:49,960 I, uh, I don't get it. 442 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:50,960 You sure don't, Bud. 443 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:52,960 Give him a chance, Joe. 444 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:58,960 Because it so happens that's not Mr. Reedy, the lawyer, but Dr. Sterling, the dentist. 445 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,960 I talked fast and Ellen took my side. 446 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:12,960 And when we got Joe calmed down, I knew he was going to watch me like a hawk from then on. 447 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:18,960 That afternoon, Ellen got the real snazzy idea of going to the beach. 448 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,960 My father knocked off work and drove us down, sort of to celebrate my homecoming. 449 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:28,960 It was really a hot day, so when we got there, the others made a beeline for the water, but I didn't because of my bandaged hand. 450 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,960 I stayed around the beach club near the pool. 451 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,960 When it began to get dark, we all dressed and went down to White's Restaurant for seafood dinner. 452 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:40,960 Then we walked out on the pier, the same pier where I was supposed to have been murdered. 453 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:48,960 I remember I said something about taking the body back to where X marks the spot, and everybody laughed. 454 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:50,960 Isn't it heavenly out here? 455 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,960 Ah, gee, this breeze is swell. 456 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:57,960 Well, Bud, looks like you and Joe were right back where you were three years ago. 457 00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:59,960 Yeah, I guess so, Father. 458 00:20:59,960 --> 00:21:04,960 Yeah, this railing is just where we stood, isn't it, when you and I had our fight? 459 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:05,960 Yeah, about. 460 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,960 What's that phobia people have looking down from tall buildings? 461 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:10,960 I get it looking down at the water from up here. 462 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:15,960 Oh, you shouldn't worry, Ellen. You swim like a fish. Now me, I should really feel funny. 463 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,960 About ready to go home, children? I don't want you to worry. 464 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,960 All right, Mr. Cunningham, it's been such a heavenly day. 465 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:22,960 Bud, wait a minute. 466 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:23,960 Come on, Joe. 467 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:25,960 Wait, there are a couple things I want to talk to you about. 468 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:26,960 Wait it, Joe. Ellen and Father... 469 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,960 Only take a minute. First, about your not being able to swim. 470 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:32,960 But, Joe, you knew about that. I never learned. That was why... 471 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,960 Sure, everybody knew Bud Owen couldn't swim. 472 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,960 That was why when you disappeared, they thought I'd pushed you off the pier and you drowned. 473 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,960 Joe, I don't get it. Can't you let bygones be bygones? 474 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,960 Bud Owen couldn't swim. But this afternoon, when you thought we were all at a good, safe distance, 475 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:49,960 I walked up to the beach club looking for you, and I saw you swimming in the pool. 476 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:50,960 But... But I learned... 477 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:55,960 And your bandage was off. Well, start talking. Or do I have to do the talking? To the cops. 478 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:57,960 Listen, Joe, you got to wait. You got to give me time. 479 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:01,960 Now, don't get me wrong. No one in this town would be glad to have Bud Owen come back than me. 480 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:03,960 After all, I've taken plenty because he disappeared. 481 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:05,960 Rather than let Mrs. Cunningham be fooled... 482 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,960 That's what I mean, Joe. You got to give me time to square things. Just a little time. 483 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:10,960 You'd better move fast, brother. 484 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,960 Joe, no matter what you think, you know I... I haven't heard anybody. 485 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:15,960 No, not yet. 486 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:17,960 And if you give me time, nobody will be heard. 487 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,960 I went to Mr. Burrill the next morning and talked about everything. 488 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:34,960 How people were beginning to make cracks about him and the $10,000 reward and the whole mess. 489 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,960 I knew things were moving awfully fast, and I told Mr. Burrill he had to help me. 490 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:43,960 That night when she'd finished her coffee, my mother said she was awfully tired, and my father, David... 491 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,960 I saw upstairs the bed. 492 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:51,960 I looked out the window and I saw Mr. Burrill's car pull up to the curb in front of Ellen's house. 493 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:59,960 I knew he was going to do everything he could, but by this time I... I was scared. 494 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:04,960 Well, at bedtime my stepfather fixed some sandwiches and we drank some milk. 495 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,960 Then he came up to my room with me and we sat down to talk. 496 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:12,960 Well, I see your mother's been changing your room around. It's not bad. 497 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,960 I guess women like to fuss around and so forth. 498 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:17,960 It's a fact. And there's no use opposing them. 499 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,960 I guess that's right. 500 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,960 By the way, what's your real name? 501 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:25,960 Bud Owen. 502 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,960 You don't need to be afraid of me. I've protected you so far. 503 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:29,960 Why have you? 504 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,960 I asked you first. What's your real name? 505 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:34,960 Bud Owen. 506 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:36,960 You're a stubborn, aren't you? 507 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:41,960 You know, at first I thought you'd work this little scheme out all by yourself or with Burrill. 508 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:43,960 But there's someone else involved, isn't there? 509 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:44,960 Who do you think? 510 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:46,960 What about that bandage? 511 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:47,960 Well... 512 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,960 Take it off. 513 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,960 Well, well, well. Not even a scar. 514 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:58,960 I don't suppose you'd mind writing with it now that it's healed? 515 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,960 No, I don't mind. What shall I write? 516 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:06,960 Well, suppose we take this little composition of yours on Alexander the Great. 517 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,960 Would you copy this sentence, say, on the top of page three? 518 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,960 Sure. Why not? 519 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:19,960 And to make it a fair comparison, write your name, Bud Owen. 520 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,960 Bud Owen. 521 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:26,960 Here you are. 522 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,960 So she taught you Bud's handwriting, too? 523 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:30,960 Who did? 524 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:31,960 My wife. 525 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,960 Do you think I didn't know what was going on every move she made gave her away? 526 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:36,960 Why is she in such a rush to change her will? 527 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:37,960 I don't know. Why? 528 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,960 She thought she was being so smart trying to pass you off, trying to trap me. 529 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,960 I was one person who knew you weren't Bud. 530 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:46,960 Yeah, but what makes you so sure I'm not Bud? 531 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:47,960 I know. Isn't that enough? 532 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:48,960 I see. 533 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:49,960 I know. 534 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:50,960 I see. 535 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,960 Well, don't you think we'd better get my mother in on this? 536 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:59,960 Yes. Yes, I think perhaps we'd better. 537 00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:02,960 She's asleep. We'll have to wake her. 538 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,960 Mother? Mother? Hey, she's... she's... 539 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:12,960 Mother! Mother! 540 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:14,960 When I came to, I had an awful pain in the head. 541 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,960 I was in my room in bed and Ellen and Joe and Mr. Burl were there for a minute. 542 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,960 I didn't know what had happened and then I remembered. 543 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:22,960 Mother, where's my mother? 544 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,960 She's all right, Bud. She's in the hospital. 545 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,960 He gave her enough of those sleeping pills to kill a horse, but she's all right now. 546 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:29,960 How do you feel, Bud? 547 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:30,960 Oh, all right, I guess. 548 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,960 It's a good thing you had us standing by tonight, son. 549 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,960 Why, he had you dressed up like a turkey. He was going to hang you. 550 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:38,960 Gee, Mr. Burl, he must have been crazy. 551 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,960 I guess he wanted to get us both out of the way before Mother could change that will. 552 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,960 For crying out loud, Bud, why didn't you let me in on this? I thought... 553 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,960 Gee, I hated to do it, Joe, honest. But I had to. Someone had to be the guinea pig. 554 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,960 It was my idea, Joe. I sent the note to Mr. Burl. 555 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:52,960 I really found Bud in that hash house. 556 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:53,960 Yeah, but if you let me in on it, I... 557 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:58,960 We knew if Bud could fool you. If you thought he was a phony, he could fool everybody, even David Cunningham. 558 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,960 You see, Joe, for three years I suspected that guy. 559 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,960 He pushed me off the pier that night, but I was only a kid. 560 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,960 I knew it would be just his word against mine, so I ran away. 561 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:12,960 I kept putting off coming home, but I swore that someday I'd trap him, and tonight I did. 562 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:18,960 Because he said he knew I wasn't Bud Owen, I knew that he thought he'd kill me. 563 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,960 You took one whale of a chance tonight, Bud. He'd framed you pretty. 564 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:27,960 Another half hour and we'd have found your mother dead, you strung up, and that suicide note you wrote dropped up on the dresser. 565 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:33,960 Suicide note? Why, I just copied a sentence out of an old composition, something about Alexander the Great. 566 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,960 Alexander the Great? Listen to this. 567 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:45,960 It is a terrible... it is terrible what awful crimes are done for greed and ambition. Signed, Bud Owen. 568 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:51,960 Sure, you see, I was just writing... What? And I signed that? Holy... 569 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:58,960 Well, that's about all. I didn't know how my mother would take it, having my stepfather turn out to be such a heel, 570 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,960 but once she got over the dope he'd slept her, she was fine, as happy as a lock over me. 571 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:10,960 Joe and Ellen, they got married but quick, and now Joe's in the Marines, and me, I'm just passing the time here in Edgerton, 572 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:22,960 until I'm 18 and my number comes up, and then maybe I'll see a little excitement. 573 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:34,960 And so closes The Visitor, starring Eddie Bracken, tonight's tale of... Suspense. 574 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:42,960 Suspense. Suspense is produced by William Spear. Before Mr. Bracken returns to the microphone, here's a definition of yourself. 575 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:49,960 Connoisseur. One competent to act as a critical judge of an art or in a matter of taste. That's what Webster says. 576 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:55,960 So that makes you a wine connoisseur, because certainly you are competent to act as a critical judge of a wine's taste. 577 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:05,960 Matter of fact, all you have to know to be a true wine connoisseur, in the opinion of your friends and guests, is a single word, Roma. R-O-M-A. 578 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:12,960 To get the proof, make your own taste test of the tangy, appetizing Roma Sherry, the hearty, satisfying Roma Burgundy, 579 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:18,960 the heavier, sweeter Roma Port, or any of the many different delicious Roma California wines. 580 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:24,960 If your favorite dealer is temporarily out of the kind of Roma wine you prefer, ask for it again, please. 581 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:32,960 Just be sure to say R-O-M-A. Roma wines. Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 582 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,960 This is Eddie Bracken, and this is one of those nights I'll certainly remember for a long time. 583 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,960 I've always hoped, A, to be allowed to play a real, genuine, dramatic role, and, B, 584 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:47,960 it's been an ambition of mine to get a crack at this show's suspense, because, well, I think it's tops. 585 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:51,960 The next two broadcasts in this series should be particularly interesting. 586 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:58,960 I know I won't miss either of them, because Orson Welles is going to star in that very thrilling story, Donovan's Brain, 587 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:03,960 which will be done in two parts, one part next Thursday and part two the following week. 588 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,960 And one more word, don't forget to buy some Warbinds. 589 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,960 Eddie Bracken will soon be seen in Paramount's Hail the Conquering Hero. 590 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:17,960 Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Orson Welles in Suspense. 591 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:24,960 Presented by Roma wines, R-O-M-A. Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 592 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:52,960 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.